Modeling Enterprise Java Applications and Deployments
by Jeff Davies
UML 2.0 is rich and expressive, but how do you use it to effectively model software systems? In this article, Jeff Davies offers advice on how to use UML effectively, how to add longevity to your diagrams, and how to create material that can be used to concisely communicate architectural details. 2006-05-09 | Discuss (4)

Modeling Enterprise Java Applications and Deployments
by Jeff Davies
UML 2.0 is rich and expressive, but how do you use it to effectively model software systems? In this article, Jeff Davies offers advice on how to use UML effectively, how to add longevity to your diagrams, and how to create material that can be used to concisely communicate architectural details. 2006-05-09 | Discuss (4)

Adaptive Memory Management for Virtualized Java Environment
White Paper
This white paper examines the Java Virtual Machine and hypervisor virtualization, the BEA LiquidVM, and adaptive memory management for virtualized Java. 2007-12-10 | Discuss (0)

Location-based Information Processing with WebLogic Event Server and Web 2.0
by Paco Gómez
The author demonstrates how a location-based use case can be implemented with WebLogic Event Server (WLEvS) and Web 2.0 techniques. 2007-11-14 | Discuss (1)

Working with the BEA AquaLogic BPM Suite
by Alex Toussaint
Learn how the BEA AquaLogic BPM Suite can integrate business process management with existing infrastructure, including Web services, WebLogic Integration, and the AquaLogic Service Bus. 2006-08-31 | Discuss (8)

Event Processing Market Pulse 2007
BEA and ebizQ conducted a vendor-anonymous survey to determine market readiness for event processing. The results were positively surprising. 90% of the ~450 respondents identified plans to put event driven applications in production within the next 2 years. Read on for more. 2007-11-28 | Discuss (0)

Location-based Information Processing with WebLogic Event Server and Web 2.0
by Paco Gómez
The author demonstrates how a location-based use case can be implemented with WebLogic Event Server (WLEvS) and Web 2.0 techniques. 2007-11-14 | Discuss (1)

Arch2Arch Podcast 12: Terms of Empowerment: SOA, EDA and XTP
Podcast
by Roy Schulte and Ruma Sanyal
Companies today demand more agility and speed from their IT systems, and there's an ever-growing array of options to meet their changing business needs. So why are so many organizations turning to SOA, EDA and XTP? Are these solutions separate from each other or intertwined? And how do you make sure you find the right solution to address your business needs? We'll address those questions and more with Gartner analyst Roy Schulte, a leading expert on Service-Oriented Architecture, and Ruma Sanyal, director of Product Marketing for BEA Systems. 2007-11-08 | Discuss (0)

Interview Series: Building an Event-Driven SOA
Interview
by Anne-Christine Strugnell and Robin Smith
In this interview, Robin Smith, senior engineering product manager, WebLogic Time- and Event-Driven Computing, is interviewed about the products and concepts architects need in order to build an event-driven SOA. 2007-07-11 | Discuss (0)

Working with the BEA AquaLogic BPM Suite
by Alex Toussaint
Learn how the BEA AquaLogic BPM Suite can integrate business process management with existing infrastructure, including Web services, WebLogic Integration, and the AquaLogic Service Bus. 2006-08-31 | Discuss (8)

State of the Portal Market 2007: Portals and the Power of Participation
White Paper
CIOs are looking at portals for consolidating applications and introducing Web 2.0 capabilities. See for yourself: BEA Systems' annual report on the enterprise portal market includes survey data on deployment and adoption from more than 540 BEA portal customers, plus a synthesis of more than 100 analyst reports and industry articles. 2008-03-12 | Discuss (1)

Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports for Portals & Social Software
White Paper
Two Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports are now available for download: "Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products, 2007" and "Magic Quadrant for Team Collaboration and Social Software, 2007". 2008-03-12 | Discuss (0)

Introduction to Enterprise Portals - Why they Benefit IT and the Business
by Peter Laird
Peter Laird introduces the enterprise portal space and the problems that portals solve. In an article aimed at CIOs, IT architects, and IT management, Peter discusses application integration, security consolidation, content aggregation, and collaboration. 2008-01-30 | Discuss (3)

Centralized Security Policy with AquaLogic Enterprise Security: Part 2
by William Dettelback
AquaLogic Enterprise Security (ALES) provides a centralized security policy facility for applications and services. This article shows how to use ALES with WebLogic Portal and AquaLogic Data Services Platform, and how the addition of ALES as a security policy mechanism has little to no impact on how the portal or data services are created. 2007-10-18 | Discuss (0)

Working with the BEA AquaLogic BPM Suite
by Alex Toussaint
Learn how the BEA AquaLogic BPM Suite can integrate business process management with existing infrastructure, including Web services, WebLogic Integration, and the AquaLogic Service Bus. 2006-08-31 | Discuss (8)

Modeling Enterprise Java Applications and Deployments
by Jeff Davies
UML 2.0 is rich and expressive, but how do you use it to effectively model software systems? In this article, Jeff Davies offers advice on how to use UML effectively, how to add longevity to your diagrams, and how to create material that can be used to concisely communicate architectural details. 2006-05-09 | Discuss (4)

Recommended Approaches to Service-Oriented Architecture
by Yogish Pai
"SOA is the business operations strategy for leveraging information to meet their objectives, such as increasing overall revenue, increasing customer satisfaction, and improving product quality," says Yogish Pai in this article introducing SOA to business and IT executives. 2005-10-11 | Discuss (2)

Adaptive Memory Management for Virtualized Java Environment
White Paper
This white paper examines the Java Virtual Machine and hypervisor virtualization, the BEA LiquidVM, and adaptive memory management for virtualized Java. 2007-12-10 | Discuss (0)

Interview Series: Building an Event-Driven SOA
Interview
by Anne-Christine Strugnell and Robin Smith
In this interview, Robin Smith, senior engineering product manager, WebLogic Time- and Event-Driven Computing, is interviewed about the products and concepts architects need in order to build an event-driven SOA. 2007-07-11 | Discuss (0)

Interview Series: Event-Driven SOA
Interview
by Anne-Christine Strugnell and Guy Churchward
In this interview, Guy Churchward writes about event-driven SOA and event-driven architecture. 2007-06-20 | Discuss (0)

SOA Practitioners' Guide
White Paper
This comprehensive guide provides best practices surrounding SOA, from defining just what SOA is to understanding how to implement such an architecture, the standards involved and advice on how to manage the services lifecycle. 2006-09-18 | Discuss (3)

Event Processing Market Pulse 2007
BEA and ebizQ conducted a vendor-anonymous survey to determine market readiness for event processing. The results were positively surprising. 90% of the ~450 respondents identified plans to put event driven applications in production within the next 2 years. Read on for more. 2007-11-28 | Discuss (0)

Get Serious About SOA Governance: A 5-Step Action Plan for Architects
Whether your organization's SOA has 50 services in use by one customer, or 50 customers using one service, you need SOA governance in order to fully benefit from your SOA. This white paper provides a 5-step action plan that will help architects get governance right. 2007-09-27 | Discuss (0)

Arch2Arch Podcast 5: Building an SOA Skills Strategy
Podcast
by Bill Laberis and Ed Kourany
Bill Laberis, vice president at IDG, interviews Ed Kourany, BEA's Executive Director of World Wide Consulting. This is the fourth part of a series looking at Accelerating SOA Buy-In. Bill and Ed discuss creating a plan for changing the skill sets and roles within your organization over time so that you have the skilled SOA team you need. 2007-08-08 | Discuss (0)

Arch2Arch Podcast 4: A Portfolio Perspective with SOA
Podcast
by Bill Laberis and Ed Kourany
Bill Laberis, vice president at IDG, interviews Ed Kourany, BEA's Executive Director of World Wide Consulting. This is the third part of a series looking at Accelerating SOA Buy-In. Bill and Ed discuss the benefits of having a portfolio perspective when implementing SOA, possible SOA entry points, key risk factors and how to mitigate them, and best practices for creating an SOA road map. 2007-08-01 | Discuss (0)

Arch2Arch Podcast 5: Building an SOA Skills Strategy
Podcast
by Bill Laberis and Ed Kourany
Bill Laberis, vice president at IDG, interviews Ed Kourany, BEA's Executive Director of World Wide Consulting. This is the fourth part of a series looking at Accelerating SOA Buy-In. Bill and Ed discuss creating a plan for changing the skill sets and roles within your organization over time so that you have the skilled SOA team you need. 2007-08-08 | Discuss (0)

Arch2Arch Podcast 4: A Portfolio Perspective with SOA
Podcast
by Bill Laberis and Ed Kourany
Bill Laberis, vice president at IDG, interviews Ed Kourany, BEA's Executive Director of World Wide Consulting. This is the third part of a series looking at Accelerating SOA Buy-In. Bill and Ed discuss the benefits of having a portfolio perspective when implementing SOA, possible SOA entry points, key risk factors and how to mitigate them, and best practices for creating an SOA road map. 2007-08-01 | Discuss (0)

Arch2Arch Podcast 3: Justifying SOA with the Right Metrics
Podcast
by Bill Laberis and Ed Kourany
Bill Laberis, vice president at IDG, interviews Ed Kourany, BEA's Executive Director of World Wide Consulting. This is the second part of a series looking at Accelerating SOA Buy-In. Bill and Ed discuss how to build a business case for the strategic value of SOA, which metrics to use, roadblocks to justifying SOA, when to expect results and who should be involved in the justification process. 2007-07-25 | Discuss (0)

Arch2Arch Podcast 2: Accelerating SOA Buy-In and Selling the SOA Vision
Podcast
by Bill Laberis and Ed Kourany
Bill Laberis, vice president at IDG, interviews Ed Kourany, BEA's Executive Director of World Wide Consulting. This, the first part of a series looking at Accelerating SOA Buy-In, looks at Selling the SOA vision and looks at just who you are selling SOA to, the role of the CIO and CFO, cost reduction versus business agility, and the difference between EMEA and North America in the adoption of SOA. 2007-07-18 | Discuss (0)

Blueprint for Successful SOA Integration
by Dain Hansen
SOA Integration has emerged as the de facto standard for successful IT integration. Some architects mistake SOA Integration for the inclusion of an enterprise service bus or BPEL along with some adapters. There's more to it, and this article shows how it can be defined, what it solves, and some points to think about for your IT organization. 2008-03-12 | Discuss (4)

Arch2Arch Podcast 5: Building an SOA Skills Strategy
Podcast
by Bill Laberis and Ed Kourany
Bill Laberis, vice president at IDG, interviews Ed Kourany, BEA's Executive Director of World Wide Consulting. This is the fourth part of a series looking at Accelerating SOA Buy-In. Bill and Ed discuss creating a plan for changing the skill sets and roles within your organization over time so that you have the skilled SOA team you need. 2007-08-08 | Discuss (0)

Arch2Arch Podcast 4: A Portfolio Perspective with SOA
Podcast
by Bill Laberis and Ed Kourany
Bill Laberis, vice president at IDG, interviews Ed Kourany, BEA's Executive Director of World Wide Consulting. This is the third part of a series looking at Accelerating SOA Buy-In. Bill and Ed discuss the benefits of having a portfolio perspective when implementing SOA, possible SOA entry points, key risk factors and how to mitigate them, and best practices for creating an SOA road map. 2007-08-01 | Discuss (0)

Arch2Arch Podcast 3: Justifying SOA with the Right Metrics
Podcast
by Bill Laberis and Ed Kourany
Bill Laberis, vice president at IDG, interviews Ed Kourany, BEA's Executive Director of World Wide Consulting. This is the second part of a series looking at Accelerating SOA Buy-In. Bill and Ed discuss how to build a business case for the strategic value of SOA, which metrics to use, roadblocks to justifying SOA, when to expect results and who should be involved in the justification process. 2007-07-25 | Discuss (0)

Measuring AquaLogic Enterprise Security Performance
by William Dettelback
AquaLogic Enterprise Security (ALES) extends the concept of entitlement policies beyond what is possible with WebLogic Portal alone. Learn about the performance aspects of using ALES as the entitlement engine for WebLogic Portal. 2008-03-12 | Discuss (0)

Centralized Security Policy with AquaLogic Enterprise Security: Part 2
by William Dettelback
AquaLogic Enterprise Security (ALES) provides a centralized security policy facility for applications and services. This article shows how to use ALES with WebLogic Portal and AquaLogic Data Services Platform, and how the addition of ALES as a security policy mechanism has little to no impact on how the portal or data services are created. 2007-10-18 | Discuss (0)

Centralized Security Policy with AquaLogic Enterprise Security: Part 1
by William Dettelback
AquaLogic Enterprise Security (ALES) provides a centralized security policy facility for applications and services. This article shows how to use ALES with WebLogic Portal and AquaLogic Data Services Platform, and how the addition of ALES as a security policy mechanism has little to no impact on how the portal or data services are created. 2007-09-19 | Discuss (0)

BEA AquaLogic Service Bus behind the Firewall in Service-Oriented Architecture
White Paper
by Irene Rusman
As organizations move to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), security becomes one of the key concerns impacting deployment and firewalls play an important role. This white paper discusses the security set-up and configuration for BEA AquaLogic Service Bus in these scenarios. 2006-10-25 | Discuss (0)

Centralized Security Policy with AquaLogic Enterprise Security: Part 2
by William Dettelback
AquaLogic Enterprise Security (ALES) provides a centralized security policy facility for applications and services. This article shows how to use ALES with WebLogic Portal and AquaLogic Data Services Platform, and how the addition of ALES as a security policy mechanism has little to no impact on how the portal or data services are created. 2007-10-18 | Discuss (0)

Centralized Security Policy with AquaLogic Enterprise Security: Part 1
by William Dettelback
AquaLogic Enterprise Security (ALES) provides a centralized security policy facility for applications and services. This article shows how to use ALES with WebLogic Portal and AquaLogic Data Services Platform, and how the addition of ALES as a security policy mechanism has little to no impact on how the portal or data services are created. 2007-09-19 | Discuss (0)

Arch2Arch Podcast 5: Building an SOA Skills Strategy
Podcast
by Bill Laberis and Ed Kourany
Bill Laberis, vice president at IDG, interviews Ed Kourany, BEA's Executive Director of World Wide Consulting. This is the fourth part of a series looking at Accelerating SOA Buy-In. Bill and Ed discuss creating a plan for changing the skill sets and roles within your organization over time so that you have the skilled SOA team you need. 2007-08-08 | Discuss (0)

Arch2Arch Podcast 4: A Portfolio Perspective with SOA
Podcast
by Bill Laberis and Ed Kourany
Bill Laberis, vice president at IDG, interviews Ed Kourany, BEA's Executive Director of World Wide Consulting. This is the third part of a series looking at Accelerating SOA Buy-In. Bill and Ed discuss the benefits of having a portfolio perspective when implementing SOA, possible SOA entry points, key risk factors and how to mitigate them, and best practices for creating an SOA road map. 2007-08-01 | Discuss (0)

Kaizen, BPM, and Agile Methodologies
by Reza Shafii
This article explores the ways in which BPM can be used as an implementation of Kaizen principles and how this solution can be optimized through application of Agile development methodologies. 2008-05-07 | Discuss (0)

Innovate over SAP with Service Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, and Enterprise Social Computing
White Paper
Learn how to apply Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, and Enterprise Social Computing to innovate over legacy monolithic applications to transform the way they serve customers, partners and employees. 2008-01-16 | Discuss (0)

Event Processing Market Pulse 2007
BEA and ebizQ conducted a vendor-anonymous survey to determine market readiness for event processing. The results were positively surprising. 90% of the ~450 respondents identified plans to put event driven applications in production within the next 2 years. Read on for more. 2007-11-28 | Discuss (0)

Applying a BPM and SOA Approach to Achieve Agile Business Integration
White Paper
This paper provides in-depth insights on best practices to align SOA with business processes through a business and IT aligned approach centered around the Atomic Business Service and a mediation layer to simplify service communications and management. 2007-09-12 | Discuss (0)