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Securing Services Using the AquaLogic Service Bus
The AquaLogic Service Bus enables the separation of security concerns from service implementation. In this tutorial, Paul Done demonstrates this by applying a WS-Policy file to a simple proxied Web service. Apr. 12, 2006

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Posted by Paul Done (pdone) on May 08, 2008 at 08:29 PDT | Comments (1)  

New Open Source WebLogic Monitoring tool: DomainHealth monitoring tool
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Posted by Paul Done (pdone) on July 31, 2007 at 14:10 PDT | Comments (2)  

WLST and SQLPLus on Linux - get UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT and other keys working: Description of how to get UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT arrows keys and HOME, END keys working on Linux for tools like WLST and SQLPlus to increase productivity
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The problem with using SOAP over JMS in SOA: SOAP and JMS are sometimes seen as the perfect combination to enable loosely coupled asynchronous shared services within a SOA. However, there are fundamental interoperability issues that can occur when this is an enterprise's default service exposure mechanism and therefore the decision to standardise on SOAP/JMS should not be taken lightly.
Posted by Paul Done (pdone) on March 28, 2007 at 08:44 PDT | Comments (3)