Vimala Ranganathan

is a QA engineer on the workshop team. She has over eight years of experience in Java SE/Java EE technologies. She has been with BEA for more than 5 years during which time she worked as a DRE in Weblogic Server and Workshop Support Team. She has also been a contributor to Java One, Dev2Dev workshop newsgroup and the Weblogic Developer Journal.

Articles An Introduction to the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 (EJB 3) Specification The EJB 3.0 specification goes a long way toward making the EJB programming experience a pleasant one by simplifying development, facilitating test-driven development, and focusing more on plain Java objects. This article takes a look at the specification, and how to build EJBs in the new model. Mar. 29, 2006 WS-Security and Java: Practical, In-Depth, Message-Based Security This article looks at WS-Security and related technologies such as XML Signatures and XML Encryption, with a brief look at other protocols in this space. May. 26, 2004

Weblogs Issues with popup window and pageflows/portlets: This discusses issues with using popup window which stores/modifies data within portlets and pageflow Posted by Vimala Ranganathan (rvimala) on November 15, 2006 at 15:53 PDT | Comments (6)   Working with Arrays in form Bean using different FORM bean scopings: Discusses two types of form scoping and addresses the issue of working with Array or Complex DataType as a member of the FormBeans.The sample uses an array of checkbox items to demonstrate how the two form scopings work with form beans. Posted by Vimala Ranganathan (rvimala) on November 15, 2006 at 11:36 PDT | Comments (2)   View All Blog Posts »