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Practical Advice on Becoming a Better Blogger
Becoming a better blogger is a snap. This guide provides 11 key steps to improving the way in which you blog. Aug. 8, 2007

Information as a Service
Brad Wright, Product Manager for the BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform, talks to Arch2Arch about delivering information as a service. The interview covers adopting SOA, integrating data, and accessing data using an information bus. Jun. 12, 2007

Results From the 2006 Dev2Dev Reader Survey
We ran the second Dev2Dev Reader Survey during the last two months of 2006. Here are the results, with commentary. Feb. 7, 2007

Announcing the 2006 Dev2Dev Reader Survey
The 2006 Dev2Dev Reader Survey is underway. This is your opportunity to steer the site by helping us understand what you use, what you're interested in, and what can be improved. Nov. 15, 2006

Interview Series: Flashline and AquaLogic Enterprise Repository
Recently acquired by BEA, Flashline is now available as the AquaLogic Enterprise Repository. Dev2Dev interviews Flashline CEO Charles Stack, who discusses metadata repositories, SOA, and what ALER means for developers, architects, and IT managers. Sep. 6, 2006

Results From the 2005 Dev2Dev Reader Survey
We ran the first Dev2Dev Reader Survey during the last two months of 2005. Here are the results, with commentary. Mar. 7, 2006

Interview Series: Kodo—Towards an Open Source EJB 3.0 Persistence Engine
Kodo is the popular persistence engine developed by SolarMetric, now BEA. In this interview with Neelan Choksi, we discover some of the details behind Kodo and the announcement to open source a preview of its EJB 3.0 engine. Feb. 14, 2006

Announcing the 2005 dev2dev Reader Survey - and WebLogic Server Survey too
The 2005 dev2dev Reader Survey is underway. This is your opportunity to steer the site by helping us understand what you use, what you're interested in, and what can be improved. It's being run in parallel with a WebLogic Server survey too. Please participate. Oct. 26, 2005

Interview Series: Lightweight Java
"Lightweight Java is about removing the unnecessary complexities and constraints associated with the traditional J2EE API," says Jim Rivera in this interview with dev2dev. Jim discusses lightweight Java, persistence frameworks, and BEA's take on these technologies. Jun. 20, 2005

Web services in Workshop 8.1: XML Impedance Matching
This article looks at ways to create web services that are resistant to changes in either the datatypes defined in the WSDL, or changes to the XMLBean types used to implement the service. Nov. 29, 2004

WebLogic: The Definitive Guide
WebLogic: The Definitive Guide offers detailed, comprehensive look into WebLogic Server. In the following sample chapters, learn how WebLogic Server provides a solid, rich framework for creating portable JMS applications, allows for extensive support for XML and XML-related APIs, and find out how to build and deploy Web services. May. 26, 2004

Resources for new Java developers
Are you an experienced developer who is new to Java? Or someone starting out in the enterprise Java field? Here's a short guide to quickly getting started, with references to many additional resources. Apr. 7, 2004

Weblogs

Goodbye!: My last day at work. Article on SpecJMS. Blogs on EJB 3 on WLS 10, Amazon S3/EC2. Source code for Workshop/Flex demo.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on April 11, 2008 at 03:48 PDT | Comments (8)  

Dev2Dev TechDays; Ajax + EARs + ALSB + Workshop too: Half-day seminars across Americas. Articles on Ajax, building EARs, Flex, OSGi. New releases of BEA Workshop and AquaLogic Service Bus. Arch2Arch changes.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on March 13, 2008 at 07:23 PDT | Comments (0)  

SOA Reference Architecture; State of Portal Market: Arch2Arch enhancements + many articles/white papers on SOA Reference Architecture; SOA Integration Blueprints; Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports for Portals & Social Software and AquaLogic Enterprise Security Performance!
Posted by Arch2Arch Editor (jonmountjoy) on March 13, 2008 at 06:10 PDT | Comments (0)  

WebLogic Operations Control for Managed Virtualization (New Product): New product. White papers on virtualization and SOA. Blogs on SCA, Governance, Reusable Services and Godzilla.
Posted by Arch2Arch Editor (jonmountjoy) on March 03, 2008 at 15:20 PDT | Comments (0)  

Infrastructure as a Service ; Introducing Enterprise Portals too: Articles on SOA + Virtualization and Enterprise Portals. Blogs on AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0, complex event processing and webinar on Microsoft interoperability.
Posted by Arch2Arch Editor (jonmountjoy) on January 30, 2008 at 07:13 PDT | Comments (0)  

Guardian now available free; JRockit tuning and Adobe Flex/Workshop bundle promotion: Articles on JRockit tuning, IMS and Workshop+Flex and BlazeDS. Announcements that BEA Guardian now available for free to customers, and Workshop/Flex bundle discounts. Webinar on ESBs, and blogs on OpenJPA plugin for distributed databases.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on January 14, 2008 at 03:52 PDT | Comments (2)  

Asynchronous Servlets and Facebook: Articles on Using Asynchronous Servlets to Deal with Hung Threads and WebLogic Event Server Performance. Blogs on Future of WebLogic Portal, SmartConnect and ALUI. New Facebook groups for Dev2Dev And Arch2Arch.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on December 05, 2007 at 03:05 PDT | Comments (2)  

WebLogic Server 10.3 Tech Preview. Another JAXB and JAX-WS article too.: WebLogic Server 10.3 Tech Preview: Lightweight WebLogic Server, Programming Model and API Support, and Technology Integration and Standards. Articles on JAXB and JAX-WS (again), the tech preview, and WebLogic Event Server.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on November 14, 2007 at 05:46 PDT | Comments (0)  

Oracle, Workshop+Flex, & Email instead of RSS Feeds!: Acquisition talk. New BEA Workshop Studio bundles Flex. New WebLogic Server Tools. New email subscription and full feeds on Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on October 18, 2007 at 04:06 PDT | Comments (0)  

Develop@BEAWorld Barcelona Day Summary: Develop@BEAWorld got off to a great start today with a keynote delivered by Rod Johnson. I enjoyed hearing that J2EE was not terribly object oriented because of the "excessive focus on distributed objects." More on Ajax, advanced class reshaping too.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on October 03, 2007 at 09:24 PDT | Comments (0)  

Genesis: Here at the BEAWorld keynote Alfred Chuang announces Genesis, Technology Convergence and Dynamic Applications
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on October 03, 2007 at 01:13 PDT | Comments (0)  

Live from the showroom floor: Some photos from BEAWorld Barcelona (food :-) )
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on October 02, 2007 at 09:05 PDT | Comments (0)  

Bridging the gap between people, processes and information: The liquid enterprise: Build for change, composite applications, loosely-coupled, business driven (as opposed to application function driven), *collaboration ingrained*, and heterogeneous horizontal integration.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on October 02, 2007 at 07:50 PDT | Comments (0)  

JAX-WS, JAXB, Mock Objects, Event Processing and ALES: A surfeit of articles on JAX-WS, JAXB, Mock Objects, Event Processing (caching and administration) and AquaLogic Enterprise Security!
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on October 02, 2007 at 01:34 PDT | Comments (1)  

Keynote BEAWorld Barcelona - NOT: I've just arrived at the conference hall here at BEAWorld Barcelona, forcing myself awake after only 4 hours sleep. I then found out it's actually Tuesday today, and the keynote is on Wednesday. Argh.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on October 02, 2007 at 00:21 PDT | Comments (0)  

Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0: Real or Imagined: Enterprise 2.0 - what does it mean? Articles on "Total Cost of Ownership: A Comparison of C/C++ and Java" and " What does Web 2.0 mean for Enterprise IT?". BEAWorld news and many interesting blogs on SOA adoption, CEP and services.
Posted by Arch2Arch Editor (jonmountjoy) on September 06, 2007 at 05:50 PDT | Comments (0)  

Develop@BEAWorld Conference + Better Blogging: Great sessions as Develop@BEAWorld -register! Guide to better blogging included. Podcasting on Arch2Arch too. Blogs on BEA JRockit vs Sun HotSpot, running WLS on VMWare ESX, BPEL 2.0 and Web Services Interoperability.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on August 16, 2007 at 04:19 PDT | Comments (6)  

OpenJPA no longer requires bytecode processing (future Kodo too probably): Patrick Linskey writes that OpenJPA no longer requires bytecode processing
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on July 29, 2007 at 12:32 PDT | Comments (0)  

WebLogic Event Server, and Facebook pep talks: Articles on ICEfaces, IMS and WebLogic SIP Server and WebLogic Event Server. Thinking about Facebook. New WebLogic Event Server and WebLogic Server Virtual Edition. Archived webinars on Ajaxifying Portlets.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on July 26, 2007 at 15:27 PDT | Comments (0)  

Exceptional Advice: Articles on Exception Advice, Running the Quercus PHP Engine and AquaLogic BPM Suite. New BEA Workshop 10.1 and many other products. Archived webinar on Liquid VM and Virtualization. Blogs on REST interface to WLP, GreaseMonkey and more.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on July 13, 2007 at 02:26 PDT | Comments (0)  

Updated Products: AquaLogic Commerce Services 5.1.2: BEA has just released AquaLogic Commerce Services 5.1.2. BEA AquaLogic Commerce Services provides enterprise-class features for developing and managing online stores, helping you attract and convert customers, increase loyalty, and maximize profits.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on July 10, 2007 at 14:41 PDT | Comments (0)  

Spring Batch: "Spring Batch provides a technical framework and programming model to support long-running processes that perform a given set of tasks repetitively."
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on July 07, 2007 at 13:42 PDT | Comments (0)  

New Products: AquaLogic Pages, AquaLogic Pathways and AquaLogic Ensemble: AquaLogic Pages, AquaLogic Pathways and AquaLogic Ensemble are now available for download.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on July 06, 2007 at 08:16 PDT | Comments (0)  

Mashups and Podcast on Virtualization and Event-Driven Architectures: Podcasting! Articles on 'Information as a Service' and 'Understanding SOA Management: What's in your SOA?'. Video interviews by Robert Scoble. Events on Virtualization. Podcasts on Virtualization and Event-Driven Architectures.
Posted by Arch2Arch Editor (jonmountjoy) on June 13, 2007 at 05:29 PDT | Comments (0)  

Mashing up at all levels: Articles on 'Ajax-Powered Google Maps Mashup Tutorial', 'Securing Web Services' and 'SIP API for Java ME'. Screencast of Workshop Studio Spring Framework demonstration. Virtualization Webinars, and blogs on mashups, workshop and more mashups.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on June 13, 2007 at 04:15 PDT | Comments (0)  

Virtualization and Data in SOA: Articles on Virtualization, and Data in SOA. Webinars on virtualization, SOA governance and BEA AquaLogic Commerce Services. Blogs on architects, SCA, SDO and more.
Posted by Arch2Arch Editor (jonmountjoy) on May 23, 2007 at 02:05 PDT | Comments (0)  

The Building Business Mashups with Java session at JavaOne: Separating nouns from verbs. Also: how to be a fire hazard.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on May 11, 2007 at 15:39 PDT | Comments (0)  

Dapper Guy at Intel Keynote: BEA all over Intel keynote - I guess it's difficult with all those abstraction layers. Hypervisor and JVMs without operating systems abound.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on May 11, 2007 at 09:55 PDT | Comments (0)  

Automating Application Promotion and interfacing at JavaOne: Fun@J1. Article on 'Racing to Release: Automated Application Promotion'. Webinar archives on AquaLogic Commerce Services. Blogs on JavaOne, SOA Management and more.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on May 09, 2007 at 12:01 PDT | Comments (2)  

JavaOne Keynote - short stack with coffee: IMS, real time Java, JavaFX and more.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on May 08, 2007 at 09:52 PDT | Comments (1)  

Meet up at JavaOne. XMLBeans too.: Analogue meetup? Article on 'Incremental Compilation and Error Handling in XMLBeans'. Webinar archives on Using PHP with BEA Weblogic Server and An In-Depth Look at OpenJPA. Blogs on OpenLaszlo, Web Services and BPM.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on April 19, 2007 at 04:01 PDT | Comments (0)  

BEA JRockit for Java SE 6 now available: JRockit for Java SE 6 is now available
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on April 15, 2007 at 02:27 PDT | Comments (0)  

Services earning their keep: It's all about increasing the business's ability to meet competitive challenges. Article on An Introduction to Enterprise Architecture. New webinars on BEA WebLogic Integration, SCA and AquaLogic Commerce Services.
Posted by Arch2Arch Editor (jonmountjoy) on April 02, 2007 at 15:19 PDT | Comments (0)  

WebLogic Server 10! WebLogic Portal 10 and Workshop for WebLogic 10 too!: w00t - all available for download right now too
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on March 30, 2007 at 14:35 PDT | Comments (30)  

OpenJPA, Event Geneators in WebLogic Integration and Architecture: Webinar on An In-Depth Look at OpenJPA. Articles on 'Exploring the WebLogic Integration 8.1 RDBMS Event Generator' and 'An Introduction to Enterprise Architecture.' Blogs on Maven, BPM and SCA.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on March 28, 2007 at 05:17 PDT | Comments (0)  

A New Arch2Arch: We've made a number of changes to the old architect page on Dev2Dev - Arch2Arch is now a full peer. Article on Rethinking SOA Governance. New archived webinar on the AquaLogic Data Services Platform.
Posted by Arch2Arch Editor (jonmountjoy) on March 14, 2007 at 04:11 PDT | Comments (0)  

Help rename Dev2Dev Live! Maven 2 too.: Want a free book? Help us find a better name for "Dev2Dev Live!" That exclamation point is really getting me down. Article on Apache Maven 2 and WebLogic Portal. New Dev2Dev Live! (!) archived webinar on AquaLogic Data Services.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on March 10, 2007 at 03:27 PDT | Comments (31)  

RESTing for a while: RESTful web services and WS-*. Articles on An Introduction to JSON and How To Dismantle a BPM Solution. New archived webinars on Fine-Grained Authorization and Delivering on Web 2.0 with WebLogic Portal and Ajax. Blogs on WebLogic Server console, SCA and Data Services.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on February 28, 2007 at 01:56 PDT | Comments (0)  

WebLogic Server 10 Technology Preview = Java EE 5 compatible: WLS passes the Sun Compatibility Test Suite. Articles on PHP-Java bridges and WSRP in WebLogic Portal. Education self-study news. New archived webinar on Backbase Ajax and Workshop Studio. Blogs on SOA standards compliance, transaction final systems and more.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on February 16, 2007 at 02:24 PDT | Comments (1)  

Dev2Dev Survey Results are in. SIP too.: Results from our survey. New Dev2Dev Live! items on EJB 3 JPA and AquaLogic Data Services. Blogs on surfacing portals in Vista as widgets and browser tools.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on February 08, 2007 at 05:33 PDT | Comments (1)  

DIY Software as a Service: Article on Guidelines for Writing JSR-168 Portlets. Thoughts on SaaS and the Java portal market. New CodeShare samples for SIP. Blogs on BPM, Guardian and WLP Propagation Tool.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on January 29, 2007 at 03:17 PDT | Comments (0)  

POJO MOJO: Article on POJOs in Action. Blogs on PDF vulnerabilities, portal and web services quality of service. Big Guardian competition. New webinar on mashups and WebLogic Portal too.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on January 19, 2007 at 07:24 PDT | Comments (0)  

Embarassed about EJB 3.0: Article on Effective Java Exceptions. Blogs on mashups, ALUI, Adrenaline, and WebLogic Server debug environment variables. New webinar on data virtualization too.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on January 11, 2007 at 12:46 PDT | Comments (0)  

New versions of AquaLogic Service Bus and AquaLogic AquaLogic Interaction Development Kit available: AquaLogic Service Bus 2.6 is now available for download, as well as AquaLogic Interaction Development Kit 5.4. New features in ALSB include SOAP 1.2, native transport, Automatic Synchronization of Services from UDDI,RDBMS access from a Proxy Service and more. New features in ALIDK include Java 5.0 and WebLogic Server 9.x support.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on January 11, 2007 at 02:20 PDT | Comments (0)  

Winners of the Dev2Dev Reader Survey!: Starting a new year. Winners of the Dev2Dev Reader Survey announced. Article on Configuring Single Sign-On using SAML in WebLogic Server 9.2. Blogs on Oracle RAC, security and building and configuration.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on January 05, 2007 at 04:23 PDT | Comments (0)  

Java Virtualization and Tech Previews of WebLogic Server 10 and Workshop for WebLogic 10 and JRockit 6: Okay, we're going out with lots of presents this year. New JRockit and Mission Control (including JRockit 6 tech preview), WebLogic SIP Server 3.0, and WebLogic Server 10 and WebLogic Workshop 10 technology previews!
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on December 21, 2006 at 14:34 PDT | Comments (1)  

New versions of JRockit and JRockit Mission Control available: New features include a completely new version of JRockit Mission Control, JRockit 6 tech preview, improved monitoring and diagnostics features, full support for IPv6 on all, expanded support for Solaris/SPARC platforms, enhanced performance, Connect-on-Demand capability for JVMTI and JMX (JRockit 5.0 and 6), and more.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on December 21, 2006 at 07:13 PDT | Comments (0)  

WebLogic SIP Server 3.0 now available: WebLogic SIP Server 3.0 is now available for download. New features include Geographically-Redundant Persistence, Diameter Base Protocol and IMS Ro, Rf Interface Support and IPv6 Support.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on December 17, 2006 at 12:30 PDT | Comments (0)  

JavaPolis Day 3: The pain of ironing: Keynotes, performance, errors and failure, Java EE extensions and continued hotel problems.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on December 14, 2006 at 01:52 PDT | Comments (0)  

POJO Mojo and Sexy Flex: There's no mojo if there's no POJO. Migration issues too. Flex as the new HTML. Puzzling gifts from Adobe.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on December 12, 2006 at 10:01 PDT | Comments (4)  

Scripting - where's the PHP?: There was a lot of interest here on scripting languages on the JVM, and rightly so, but one language was glaringly absent. PHP. Why? I don't know - I mean it's only one of the most popular scripting languages around!
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on December 12, 2006 at 00:49 PDT | Comments (0)  

Ajax with Dojo at JavaPolis: Is Ajax the way to go for flexible, dynamic GUIs? Adobe Flex and Ajax at war, or two peas in a pod?
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on December 11, 2006 at 05:55 PDT | Comments (2)  

Domain-Driven Design: Implications to SOA?: Attended the Domain-Driven Design tutorial by Eric Evans. Problems with model reuse out of context. Perhaps this exposes SOA pitfalls too?
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on December 11, 2006 at 03:32 PDT | Comments (3)  

JavaPolis: Getting what you pay for...: Getting bang for my back here at JavaPolis: crumby hotel, outstanding conference
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on December 11, 2006 at 01:53 PDT | Comments (0)  

Ajax Comparison Framework and Workshop Studio 3.3: Helping you choose an Ajax framework. Article on Ajax and Adrenaline (portlets in a web application). Survey - please help. New release of Workshop Studio 3.3.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on December 06, 2006 at 03:42 PDT | Comments (0)  

WebLogic Integration 9.2 now available-Spring on WebLogic Kit 1.2.8 too: New release of WebLogic Integration and Spring on WebLogic Kit. Article on A Primer on Spring's Data Access Object (DAO) Framework. Survey - please help. Blogs on Ajax survey, SPECjbb2005 results from the Intel "Clovertown" launch, and self-study courses for SOA.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on December 01, 2006 at 02:30 PDT | Comments (0)  

Liquid Survey, Fluid Layout - Please Help Out!: Liquid Layout on the main site. Survey - please help. Articles on AquaLogic Service Bus with WebSphere MQ and Tibco. Blogs on BEA skunkworks and JRockit performance tips.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on November 27, 2006 at 00:55 PDT | Comments (0)  

BEA Dev2Dev at JavaPolis 2006: Much like last year, Dev2Dev will be at JavaPolis again - we've just started up our event page. Stay tuned for additional information.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on November 22, 2006 at 08:38 PDT | Comments (0)  

Testing JPA: Testing JPA. Articles on TestNG and SOA. Blogs on Bayesian CV sorting, AquaLogic Service Bus and a JRockit Mission Control Sneak Peek. Poll on Java SE 5. Forums too.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on November 08, 2006 at 05:34 PDT | Comments (3)  

Resources for Spring and WebLogic Real Time: Articles on Message-Level Encryption in WebLogic Server and AquaLogic Data Services Platform Performance. New resource pages and newsgroups for Spring Framework and WebLogic Real Time. Blogs on the build process and Web services.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on November 03, 2006 at 00:45 PDT | Comments (0)  

Groovy and Grails: The cup overfloweth: Grails is great? Also, article on Groovy and Grails and a white paper on AquaLogic Service Bus behind a firewall. Blogs on acronyms, the enterprise service bus and the WebLogic Server Console Extensions Project.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on October 25, 2006 at 03:23 PDT | Comments (0)  

BEA Kodo 4.1: JDO 2.0 and OpenJPA and *: BEA Kodo 4.1: JDO 2.0 + blended OpenJPA. Article on How GroupSpace Uses IPC to Create Interportlet Links. Blogs on
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on October 18, 2006 at 06:06 PDT | Comments (0)  

Targetting information in Prague: Information you need? Article on the Home Subscriber Server (HSS). New Workshop Screencast demo, CodeShare update and blogs on Ruby in ALUI.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on October 13, 2006 at 03:42 PDT | Comments (0)  

Latency and Jitter: JRockit at BEAWorld Prague: I'm now in the "Evolving a Real Time Liquid Infrastructure - Adaptive Technologies in the Modern Enterprise" talk here at BEAWorld Prague. 30ms max garbage collection response times guaranteed.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on October 11, 2006 at 08:19 PDT

BEAWorld in Prague: BPM + microService Architecture: BEAWorld is in full swing in beautiful Prague. This is a brief excerpt from Marge Breya's keynote, with an emphasis on BPM and the microService Architecture.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on October 11, 2006 at 01:22 PDT

Spring 2.0 released: Spring 2.0 is out. Article on Understanding the Service Lifecycle within a SOA: Design Time. Blogs on Tuxedo and JDBC Controls in Workshop.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on October 04, 2006 at 08:14 PDT

Announcement: BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform 2.5: BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform 2.5 is now available for download. Enterprise in the data. Additional Excel and AquaLogic Service Bus support included.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on October 02, 2006 at 04:23 PDT

Announcement: WebLogic RFID Edge Server 2.1.1: WebLogic RFID Edge Server 2.1.1 is now available for download. Enterprise on the edge.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on October 02, 2006 at 02:14 PDT

Guardian, Prague and Spring Webinar: BEAWorld in Prague. BEA Guardian unveiled. Articles on Guardian and Using PFX and PEM Certificate Formats with Keystores. Blogs on Tuxedo + SALT. Archived Spring webinar now available.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on September 29, 2006 at 21:51 PDT

Dev2Dev Newsgroups: Newsgroups - give me your opinions. Article on AquaLogic Interaction Analytics. Blogs on JRockit+Eclipse, Versioned WEb Apps and Workshop Tricks. New TechTalks on Application Security and Entitlements.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on September 15, 2006 at 07:53 PDT | Comments (2)  

JRuby has landed - virtualized Ruby too?: JRuby and virtualization. Interview on Flashline and AquaLogic Enterprise Repository, Article on Basic Spring Interaction with WebLogic Portal. Blogs on benchmarks on Montecito, Tulsa, AMD and more. Two new developers events in the UK.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on September 08, 2006 at 11:59 PDT | Comments (0)  

Business Process Management solutions as executable specifications: Article on Working with the BEA AquaLogic BPM Suite. Blogs on RFID and ALUI. OS X as IDE platform?
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on August 31, 2006 at 16:02 PDT | Comments (0)  

Announcement: Services Architecture Leveraging Tuxedo (SALT) 1.1 now available: BEA SALT 1.1 (which can expose existing Tuxedo services as standard Web services) is now available for download.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on August 29, 2006 at 11:47 PDT | Comments (0)  

This cheat sheet is not a cheat sheet, not: Article on writing cheat sheets for Eclipse and Workshop. Blogs on defining "liquid thinking." Plenty of new CodeShare samples too.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on August 28, 2006 at 00:06 PDT | Comments (0)  

Free Workshop Studio Licenses @ BEAWorld: Article on Handling Schemas without Namespaces in WebLogic Workshop. Workshop giveaway at BEAWorld. Education Services on a new SOA curriculum and free iPod. New CodeShare samples and projects. Blogs on BPM and SOA, and JRockit hanging Linux.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on August 19, 2006 at 17:07 PDT | Comments (0)  

Single Sign On and SAML for sibilant security: Single sign on: Article introducing SAML, the security assertion markup language. Blogs on free education at BEAWorld, blending Spring and CommonJ, and consistency in your business. Dev2Dev Live! upcoming webinar on Spring and J2EE.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on August 10, 2006 at 23:50 PDT | Comments (0)  

BEAWorld early-bird registration. JMeter testing and Spring education too: BEAWorld early-bird registration. Article on testing Web services with JMeter. Blogs on JNDI testing, WebLogic Network Gatekeeper, and virtualization. Dev2Dev Live! upcoming education preview webinar on Spring and Object/Relational mapping. New CodeShare items: Parlay, EID, AquaLogic Service Bus, WSRP, ALUI and WebLogic Portal.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on August 02, 2006 at 10:05 PDT | Comments (1)  

Clustering is easy: Article on creating custom load-balancing schemes using MBeans. Blogs on OpenJPA, Workshop 9.2, WebLogic Portal Tools, and J2EE has some catching up. Dev2Dev Live! on IMS.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on July 27, 2006 at 00:19 PDT | Comments (2)  

Enterprise Service Bus use cases and the Amazon Simple Queue: Article on enterprise service bus use cases for SOA and the DOM Level 3 API. Dev2Dev Live! on migrating to Java 5. Blogs on BEA Workshop Studio, JRockit and how not to get hacked.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on July 20, 2006 at 16:44 PDT | Comments (0)  

Announcement: BEA Workshop Studio 3.2 now available: BEA Workshop Studio 3.2 is now available for download. This release is based on Eclipse 3.2 and WTP 1.5. Included is new Spring, Kodo and JPA support.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on July 18, 2006 at 13:52 PDT | Comments (0)  

Announcement: JRockit 1.4.2 and JRockit 5.0 R26.4: A new release of JRockit for J2SE 5.0 and J2SE 1.4.2 sports improved performance and additional tuning options. JRockit Mission Control is now available for both JDK versions.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on July 17, 2006 at 09:18 PDT | Comments (0)  

A web server on my mobile phone. It's a server!: Article on Derived Model Analysis: Detecting J2EE Problems Before They Happen. Dev2Dev Live! on JMX. Blogs on Workshop 9.2 features, BEA on Ajax and blending Spring, CommonJ and JMX.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on July 13, 2006 at 08:06 PDT | Comments (0)  

Announcement: AquaLogic Service Bus 2.5 now available: AquaLogic Service Bus 2.5 is now available, featuring dynamic routing capabilities, custom transport SDK, EJB over RMI and Tuxedo transports and more.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on July 10, 2006 at 23:32 PDT | Comments (0)  

DSLs for better domain management: Article on Developing Web Applications in a Clustered Environment Using WLST and BEA Workshop. Blogs on BPM, SOA and Workshop for WebLogic 9.2. Dev2Dev Live! presentations on Subversion, JRockit and Project Bare Metal (virtualization).
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on July 07, 2006 at 12:57 PDT | Comments (0)  

Announcement: WebLogic Portal 9.2, Workshop for WebLogic 9.2, WebLogic Server 9.2: WebLogic Portal 9.2 has just been released, together with the new Workshop for WebLogic 9.2 (this is an updated WebLogic Workshop but now Eclipse based). A minor point release for WebLogic Server has also been made. Articles on Portal Federation in Portal 9.2 and screencast/demonstrations of Workshop for WebLogic too.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on June 29, 2006 at 06:53 PDT | Comments (1)  

No time to trawl through log files, WLDF to the rescue: Articles on the WebLogic Diagnostic Framework. Blogs on AquaLogic Interaction Process and Workshop for WebLogic 9.2. SpringOne coverage.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on June 23, 2006 at 14:20 PDT | Comments (0)  

SpringOne: Project Pitchfork - EJB 3 on steriods in WLS: "EJB 3 is DI and AOP of 2003". Project Pitchfork sprinkles Spring goodness on WebLogic Server's EJB 3 implementation, and lets you write MDB/SSBs outside the server.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on June 22, 2006 at 07:33 PDT | Comments (0)  

SpringOne: JPA, BEA and Oracle: Lots of Java Persistence API stuff going on here at SpringOne. JPA presentation by Oracle and BEA. @Repository for Spring exception translation.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on June 16, 2006 at 05:47 PDT | Comments (1)  

AOP in the Enterprise: A roadmap of AOP adoption. I'm sold on developer-time aspects that can enforce architectural constraints.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on June 15, 2006 at 09:26 PDT | Comments (0)  

SpringOne, VoiceXML and Workshop Studio 3.1: Articles on an IMS Application Example Based on SIP Servlets and VoiceXML. Blogs on GroupSpace, Workshop Studio 3.1, NUMA and SpringOne coverage.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on June 15, 2006 at 08:32 PDT | Comments (0)  

Announcement: BEA Workshop Studio 3.1 now available: A new point release for BEA Workshop Studio 3.1 is now available. This includes WTP 1.0.2
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on June 15, 2006 at 07:26 PDT | Comments (0)  

SpringOne: Rod's Keynote, Spring 2.0 RC1: Coverage of Rod Johnson's keynote on the first day of SpringOne. Spring 2.0 RC1. Spring's component model is not a Java component model, it's a JVM component model
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on June 15, 2006 at 02:18 PDT | Comments (0)  

SpringOne: Dev2Dev at SpringOne - conference coverage, new features, and questions about Ajax, Spring and IDEs, Pitchfork and the proliferation of frameworks.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on June 13, 2006 at 13:36 PDT | Comments (0)  

Tuxedo, Business Process Testing and Subversion: Articles on Business Process Testing and Tuxedo. Blogs on XMLBeans in BEA Workshop 9.2 and JRockit. Poll on WS-* vs REST. Subversion and Dev2Dev Days webinars.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on June 07, 2006 at 19:26 PDT | Comments (0)  

Kodo 4.0, passes EJB3 TCK, iPod Nano to win in ALUI+ALBI: Articles on ALUI Java Portlet tools: Converting Java Web Applications into Adaptive Portlets, and Managed File Transfer Capabilities in an SOA environment. Competition: Newsgroups = Apple iPod Nano. Blogs on BEA Kodo 4.0 passing the EJB 3.0 TCK and the next version of JRockit Mission Control.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on June 01, 2006 at 20:59 PDT | Comments (0)  

The 15th International World Wide Web Conference 2006 -Day 1: I attended the first day of the WWW2006 conference - and finally got to here Tim Berners-Lee talk. Also, specifications that bend are good, carrier pigeons too.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on May 25, 2006 at 14:17 PDT | Comments (2)  

Turning freshly squeezed POJOs into solutions: Articles on declarative caching for Spring, XMLBeans and driving a Cantata Media Server with WebLogic SIP Server. Two new CodeShare project graduations. Blogs on JRockit licensing, JSON and getting started with EJB 3.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on May 25, 2006 at 14:12 PDT | Comments (0)  

Announcement: Tuxedo 9.1 now available for download: A new point release for Tuxedo is now available. Tuxedo 9.1 is now available for immediate download.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on May 24, 2006 at 20:45 PDT | Comments (0)  

JMX and JConsole - so little use yet so much to offer: In the final JavaOne session that I attended the presenters asked a packed audience how many were using JMX and JConsole. Only a handful raised their hands. Also, check out JSR 77.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on May 22, 2006 at 01:11 PDT | Comments (2)  

BEA General Session at JavaOne: Some coverage and pictures from the BEA General Session at JavaOne. Oh, and PHP running on WebLogic Server too...
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on May 18, 2006 at 19:31 PDT | Comments (0)  

BEA Booth at JavaOne: Spring, Tomcat management and SCA: Guests in our presentation booth include Jim Marino, Patrick Linskey, Adam FitzGerald and Rod Johnson.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on May 18, 2006 at 16:11 PDT | Comments (0)  

JRockit, JVMs, Hypervisor and Virtualization: About JRockit Bare Metal - running the JVM close to hypervisor, avoiding the operating system.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on May 17, 2006 at 14:26 PDT | Comments (1)  

Announcement: Kodo 4 final + tech preview of WLS with EJB 3: Product announcement: Kodo 4 final and tech preview of WebLogic Server with EJB 3.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on May 17, 2006 at 09:00 PDT | Comments (0)  

Service Component Architecture at JavaOne: Service Component Architecture: Approach to Security, Transactions, and Policy - A JavaOne session on deployment descriptors on steroids.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on May 16, 2006 at 16:28 PDT | Comments (2)  

Dev2Dev at JavaOne: Dev2Dev@JavaOne! Well, we're going to try.... Blogs, articles, BOFs, technical sessions, keynotes, booth #501 and more.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on May 15, 2006 at 23:08 PDT | Comments (1)  

Modeling, UML 2.0 and using agile processes: Articles on 'Modeling Enterprise Java' and 'Using Agile Processes and Modeling' as well as 'SOA: Are we reinventing the wheel?' Newsgroups now have RSS feeds, CodeShare news, and more.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on May 09, 2006 at 15:38 PDT | Comments (0)  

Dev2DevDays 2006 - 1: A report from Dev2DevDays 2006 London - Workshop demos and blended
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on April 27, 2006 at 04:53 PDT | Comments (4)  

Dev2DevDays 2006 - 2 - Business Tier and Data Tier: A report from Dev2DevDays 2006 London (2) - Business Tier and the Spring Framework, Data Tier and Open JPA and Hibernate.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on April 26, 2006 at 22:49 PDT | Comments (2)  

WebLogic Real Time - garbage collection when it matters: Learn about WebLogic Real Time and deterministic garbage collection.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on April 25, 2006 at 20:34 PDT | Comments (0)  

AquaLogic User Interaction Product Center, webinars and articles now available: We've just opened the AquaLogic User Interaction product center here on Dev2Dev. Check out the related articles, blogs and webinars on AquaLogic User Interaction.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on April 19, 2006 at 20:22 PDT | Comments (0)  

Interview with Gregor Kiczales - a good listen: Great AOP interview with Gregor Kiczales
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on April 18, 2006 at 21:23 PDT | Comments (0)  

AquaLogic Service Bus Product Center, white paper and article now available: We've just opened the AquaLogic Service Bus product center here on Dev2Dev. Also, a great white paper providing an overview of AquaLogic Service Bus, and an article on securing services in AquaLogic Service Bus
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on April 12, 2006 at 10:32 PDT | Comments (0)  

WebLogic Workshop 9.2 and WebLogic Portal 9.2 Beta: Beta's just released for WebLogic Portal and Workshop 9.2. Article on Ajax Programming in BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1, Part 2.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on April 04, 2006 at 17:23 PDT | Comments (3)  

EJB 3 - An Introduction, a demonstration, and a webinar: EJB 3. Article on An Introduction to the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 Specification. Webinar on the same, as well as a demonstration of EJB 3 support in BEA Workshop Studio 3.0.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on March 29, 2006 at 22:24 PDT | Comments (0)  

AquaLogic Data Services Platform 2.1 + Using the Java Persistence API with Spring 2.0: New release of AquaLogic Data Services Platform 2.1. Article on Using the Java Persistence API with Spring 2.0. Blogs on Cantata and SOA.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on March 21, 2006 at 15:24 PDT | Comments (0)  

Everything changes: Survey results, EJB 3.0 demonstrations and Workload Management: Everything changes. Articles on Workload Management in WebLogic Server and Extending the J2EE Deployment API. Results of the 2005 Dev2Dev Reader Survey. Dev2Dev Live! items on EJB 3 persistence and BEA Workshop Studio 3.0 demonstrations.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on March 16, 2006 at 07:44 PDT | Comments (0)  

Learn or Languish: Learn, or work yourself out of a job. Articles on SIP Servlet and the Eclipse WebLogic-Plugin. Webinars on JDO 2.0 and Kodo + Spring. Blogs on virtual classrooms.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on February 28, 2006 at 10:28 PDT | Comments (0)  

Check out the webinars!: Using JMS Client to Utilize Free Computer Resources and Managing Applications with HP OpenView. Webinars on JDO 2.0 and Kodo + Spring. Blogs on log4j and using JMS to connect two WebLogic domains.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on February 23, 2006 at 08:20 PDT | Comments (0)  

Kodo EJB 3.0 and the WebLogic Communications Platform: EJB 3.0 component of Kodo open sourced, new WLCP Product Center. Webinars on EJB 3 persistence, JDO 2.0 and Kodo + Spring. Lots of material on the WebLogic Communications Platform too.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on February 16, 2006 at 21:40 PDT | Comments (0)  

Dev2Dev Days 2006: Dev2Dev Days 2006 - Worldwide, free for Dev2Dev members, covering: JSF, JSP, Struts, Ajax, Spring, Beehive, Hibernate, EJB 3.0 and JDO 2.0! BEA Workshop, WebLogic Server, Tomcat and Kodo demonstrations too.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on February 09, 2006 at 09:09 PDT | Comments (0)  

EclipseCon 2006, AquaLogic Data Services, Spring BMT MDB: EclipseCon 2006. Articles on "High-Performance Message Processing with BMT Message-Driven Beans and Spring", "BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform Performance: A Benchmark-based Case Study" and "BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform Tech Notes." Blogs on Spring, Open Standards Innovation and Adoption, and SPEC Records. Presentation on AquaLogic User Interaction.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on February 01, 2006 at 10:30 PDT | Comments (3)  

Ajax Spotlight and WebLogic Portal Rules Engine too: Ajax and Stargate SG-1. Articles on "Developing Ajax Applications That Preserve Standard Browser Functionality", "Ajax Programming in BEA WebLogic Portal, Part 1" and "Using the WebLogic Portal Rules Engine to Implement Dynamic Business Logic in a WebLogic Integration Process, Part 1." Blogs on SIP, Beehive, user groups and Tuxedo. Presentations on JDK 5.0 and interoperability.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on January 25, 2006 at 20:29 PDT | Comments (0)  

Beehive making J2EE programming easier: Making J2EE programming easier with Apache Beehive. Articles on "Integrating JavaServer Faces with Beehive Page Flow", "Building an Advanced Beehive Control" and "Designing a Successful Portal Deployment." Blogs on SIP and VOIP, CruiseControl and SCA vs. JAX-WS. Presentations on telecoms and JSR 181.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on January 11, 2006 at 16:12 PDT | Comments (6)  

Retrospective: A picturesque retrospective of some of the articles that we published during 2005.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on January 02, 2006 at 18:06 PDT | Comments (0)  

Spring is in the air: IP datagrams on avian carriers, Spring at JavaPolis, and articles on "Using the Spring AOP Framework with EJB Components" and "Successfully Planning for SOA: Building Your SOA Roadmap." L
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on December 24, 2005 at 22:40 PDT | Comments (0)  

JavaPolis 4.1: Spring is in the air: Day 4 at JavaPolis, and Spring is in the air. Great mentions about BEA's support for Spring too. Interesting Spring AOP caching framework.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on December 15, 2005 at 05:18 PDT | Comments (1)  

JavaPolis 3.1: SDO - Data Transfer Objects on Steroids: Day 3 at JavaPolis. Agile modeling, BPEL + SDO abound
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on December 14, 2005 at 15:37 PDT | Comments (0)  

JRockit and JRockit Mission Control: New articles on JRockit and JRockit Mission Control - advanced suite of management tools for the JVM. Blogs on the same, and on SOA and JavaPolis.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on December 12, 2005 at 20:37 PDT | Comments (0)  

JavaPolis 2.1: Spring 2.0, Middle Tier, Work Managers, AOP and Transactions: Day 2 at JavaPolis, and I've just had a preview of some exciting Spring 2.0 features. I think the new configuration mechanism is pretty important, and not just for configuration. Also details on AOP and transactions.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on December 12, 2005 at 19:36 PDT | Comments (0)  

JavaPolis 1.1: MyFaces + RIFE + Maven/Eclipse + Web services: I'm at JavaPolis this week, and today, day 1, I've learned a little about RIFE, MyFaces, Maven+Eclipse and Web services.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on December 12, 2005 at 07:21 PDT | Comments (1)  

Out with the old, in with the new - Java 5: Moving to Java 5, or have you already done so? This week we feature the article, "Experiences with the New Java 5 Language Features." We also have blogs on breaking the 2GB barrier in your JVM, and the use of WebDAV in CodeShare. Also, upcoming webinars on SOA, AquaLogic User Interaction, and Workshop.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on December 06, 2005 at 23:16 PDT | Comments (0)  

SCA for SOA, and SIP Server too: This week we release a set of specifications, "Service Component Architecture", for describing and composing assemblies of language- and protocol-agnostic components. Our article this week is "Using and hacking Subclipse - the Subversion plugin for Eclipse," introducing the Subclipse Eclipse plug-in. Also, upcoming webinars on SOA and Workshop, as well as blogs uncovering BEA's SIP Server.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on December 01, 2005 at 15:47 PDT | Comments (0)  

Having a choice of Web Application Frameworks is good, right?: We've got Struts (+WW), Spring (Web MVC + Web Flow), Beehive and Tapestry. Spoiled rotten for choice, but offering confusion to folk entering Java land. Which to choose, which is better?
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on November 28, 2005 at 05:46 PDT | Comments (1)  

Side-by-side deployment of applications - no time for down time: Our article this week is "Production-time Redeployment of Applications in WebLogic Server 9.0," introducing one of the new features in WebLogic Server 9.0 that permits side-by-side deployment of versioned applications. In blogs, learn a little more about password safety.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on November 23, 2005 at 08:33 PDT | Comments (2)  

Ruby on Rails enterprise ready?: I've just come across a scary thread on the Ruby on Rails site: stale database connection handling is rather 'suboptimal.' Given this behaviour, why is Rails so eagerly adopted in enterprises? I surmise that lacking enterprise features doesn't matter - Rails targets the long tail far more effectively than J2EE.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on November 22, 2005 at 03:52 PDT | Comments (2)  

test: test
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on November 21, 2005 at 00:19 PDT | Comments (0)  

The Cache is King: Caching is everywhere. Our articles this week are "Sharing Data among Federated Portals: Using WebLogic Portal, Tangosol Coherence and WSRP" and "Peak performance tuning of CMP 2.0 Entity beans in WebLogic Server 8.1 and 9.0." Finally, some interesting blogs on SOA, and the WLNav tool for MBeans.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on November 16, 2005 at 23:55 PDT | Comments (0)  

Architecture, SolarMetric Acquisition and BEA Workshop release: Our architecture focus this week provides a look at SAML, and migrating to an SOA architecture. We also have news of the SolarMetric acquisition, and the new BEA Workshop Product Family release. Finally, some interesting blogs on Spring+Hibernate, JOPS, and introspecting exception classes.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on November 09, 2005 at 22:09 PDT | Comments (0)  

RFID - lots of little attention seekers: Article: RFID Technical Challenges and Reference Architecture
Blogs: XML Encryption and SOAP Messages; JSR 170 Content Repositories
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on November 01, 2005 at 21:27 PDT | Comments (0)  

Repositories everywhere, not a document to read: Content repositories are everywhere, and I want to access them easily, and uniformly. Is JSR 170 (Content Repository) going to come to the rescue? I see BEA are going to have some support for it too in WebLogic Portal.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on October 28, 2005 at 08:26 PDT | Comments (2)  

Help shape dev2dev!: 2005 dev2dev Reader Survey and WebLogic Server Product Feedback Survey
Article: WebLogic Server 9.0: JMS Enhancements
Blogs: BitTorrent, and MDA with Eclipse
dev2dev live: Java Message Service API: Tips and Tricks for Scalable Messaging
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on October 26, 2005 at 21:17 PDT | Comments (2)  

Are you mocking?: Article: Streamlining Your EJB Tests With MockEJB
Blogs: BitTorrent, and MDA with Eclipse
dev2dev live: How to Switch from Sun HotSpot to BEA JRockit
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on October 19, 2005 at 15:58 PDT | Comments (0)  

Architecture is important: The importance of architecture; Articles on 'Recommended Approaches to Service-Oriented Architecture' and 'Demystifying Security Standards.'
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on October 12, 2005 at 15:16 PDT | Comments (6)  

SOA Realisation - The BT Experience: Jim Crookes: "Companies get the systems they deserve. A company's systems estate is a result of its culture and its funding structures. Coherent, well-integrated systems will only ever exist in companies which value coherence and integrated service."
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on October 11, 2005 at 02:44 PDT | Comments (1)  

BEAWorld London - Keynote: SOA + RFID: BEAWorld 2005 London: Alfred says, "We're not just talking about SOA, we're doing it." Jon says "SOA is AOP." Also, BEA announces expansion of its RFID program by acquiring ConnecTera.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on October 10, 2005 at 18:01 PDT | Comments (0)  

BEAWorld (Santa Clara) wrap up: News from the third day at BEAWorld 2005. "BEAWorld this year is all about SOA in production."
Article: Spring Integration with WebLogic Server

Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on October 04, 2005 at 23:18 PDT | Comments (0)  

M7 Aquisition, NitroX and Web Application Development: BEA has just acquired M7. I've just interviewed their senior product manager, Carlos Chang, to try and find out more about their NitroX product, and what this means to BEA developers.
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on September 29, 2005 at 19:54 PDT | Comments (1)  

At BEAWorld III: Spring on WebLogic Server: News from the third day at BEAWorld 2005. "BEAWorld this year is all about SOA in production."
Article: Spring Integration with WebLogic Server

Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on September 29, 2005 at 17:55 PDT | Comments (0)  

At BEAWorld II: Spotlight on Open Source: Day II at BEAWorld 2005. New Eclipse Technology Center on dev2dev
Article: Overview of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform

Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on September 29, 2005 at 02:14 PDT | Comments (0)  

WS-*: Carving the mountain of Web services: The mountain of Web services standards may look overwhelming, but it's additive...
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on September 28, 2005 at 22:20 PDT | Comments (3)  

At BEAWorld - come visit me! (and realtime WebLogic): Realtime WebLogic - what's that!
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on September 27, 2005 at 18:21 PDT | Comments (0)  

At BEAWorld: SOA in Production: News from the first day at BEAWorld 2005 - Keynote and more. Alfred says, "BEAWorld this year is all about SOA in production."
Article: Information Integration using the AquaLogic DataServices Platform

Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on September 27, 2005 at 17:06 PDT | Comments (0)  

Talking to my business partners: Article: Introduction to Trading Partner Integration
Blogs: BEA's position on SOA, Analysis of SPECjAppServer2004 Results
Poll: How long have you been using WebLogic Server?
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on September 21, 2005 at 13:49 PDT | Comments (0)  

Blogging should be easy - use the right tool: Article: Approaches to Performance Testing
Article: Pro Apache Beehive
Blogs: VOIP and SIP, Management features in WebLogic Server 9.0
Poll: How long have you been using WebLogic Server?
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on September 13, 2005 at 03:38 PDT | Comments (1)  

Forums and isolated communities: Article: SPECjAppServer2004 - The New Way to Evaluate J2EE Performance
Blogs: Understanding ESB, T3 Protocol Changes in 9.0, Eclipse and UML roundtripping
Poll: Have you used BEA Education?
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on September 06, 2005 at 22:23 PDT | Comments (1)  

Ajax: Article: Introduction to Ajax
Article: A Backbase Ajax Front-end for J2EE Applications
dev2dev Live!: JRockit
Blogs: SDO vs EJB3, Eclipse, WTP
Poll: Have you used BEA Education?
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on August 30, 2005 at 22:37 PDT | Comments (0)  

Repetitive Strain Injuries: Article: JAAS and the HTTP Session Life Cycle
Blogs: WSLT Generator and WS-Policy
Poll: Which JVM do you use?
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on August 23, 2005 at 00:08 PDT | Comments (0)  

The Rewards of Blogging: Turning Web Sites into Web Services; Awesome blogs on JBI, Web services, SOA and EJBs
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on August 15, 2005 at 22:15 PDT | Comments (0)  

BEA JRockit and AOP; SPECjAppServer2004: Spotlight on JRockit; article on "JRockit JVM Support For AOP, Part 2"; dev2dev Live! on the same; blogs on the latest SPECjAppServer2004 results
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on August 08, 2005 at 15:07 PDT | Comments (0)  

BEA JRockit - Survey + AOP; BEAWorld 2005 too!: BEAWorld 2005 and do you use JRockit?; article on "JRockit JVM Support For AOP, Part 1"; dev2dev Live! on the same; blogs on the relative cost of application servers and easy WebLogic Server domain creation
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on August 02, 2005 at 00:21 PDT | Comments (0)  

SOA Scalability and Developer Productivity Knowledge Kit: SOA Scalability and Developer Productivity Knowledge Kit; Article on "Writing Secure Enterprise Applications"; Blogs on IDC market share report
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on July 25, 2005 at 14:42 PDT | Comments (0)  

Lightweight Java - getting things done more easily: Lightweight Java; Article on "NetUI Page Flows: An Evolution of Struts"; Blogs on the Rational Unified Process and IP Multimedia Subsystems
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on July 19, 2005 at 09:06 PDT | Comments (0)  

Productivity: Ruby on Rails and a quest for productivity; Article on Better J2EEing with Spring; Blogs on when to use a portal, Jini as SOA and JRockit; JavaOne 2005 keynote presentation
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on July 11, 2005 at 22:57 PDT | Comments (0)  

Better Integration of Spring, WebLogic Server and Eclipse: BEA announces Spring support; Article on Implementing Transaction Suspension in Spring; Blog coverage of JavaOne; Polls on favorite IDE and open source
Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on July 04, 2005 at 10:47 PDT | Comments (3)  

JRockit is Hot: There has been a lot of talk about JRockit during these past few days at JavaOne, and a few days ago I blogged about the additional tooling and chip set(AMD, SPARC) support. Yesterday I learned even more - AOP integration at the JVM layer.
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on June 30, 2005 at 11:18 PDT | Comments (0)  

PSP Giveaway Mobbed: We ran a small promotion here at the dev2dev booth at JavaOne...
Posted by Jon Mountjoy (jonmountjoy) on June 29, 2005 at 17:36 PDT | Comments (0)  

BEA and JavaOne: JRockit announcements, support for open s