Building an Advanced Beehive Control
by Lawrence Jones
The controls aspect of Apache Beehive offers a powerful programming model. In this article, Lawrence Jones takes a behind-the-scenes look at how controls are built-examining annotation processing, artifact generation, and control assembly. 2006-01-10 | Discuss (2)

Integrating JavaServer Faces with Beehive Page Flow
by Rich Feit
JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a technology for building Web application user interfaces. Apache Beehive's Page Flow is an annotation-based Web controller technology. In this article, Richard Feit shows how to integrate these two technologies. 2006-01-10 | Discuss (4)

Pro Apache Beehive
Book Excerpt
by Kunal Mittal and Srinivas Kanchanavally
Learn the architecture of Apache Beehive Controls, and how to write your own, in this book excerpt from Pro Apache Beehive by Kunal Mittal and Srinivas Kanchanavally. 2005-09-12 | Discuss (1)

NetUI Page Flows: An Evolution of Struts
by Srinivas Jaini
NetUI Page Flows, part of the Apache Beehive project, offer a simplified Struts programming model. In this article, Srinivas Jaini introduces Page Flows, examining how they differ from vanilla Struts, and how you can migrate to a Page Flow-based framework. 2005-07-18 | Discuss (3)

An Introduction to OSGi on the Server Side
by Daniel Rubio
Daniel Rubio introduces OSGi, an environment that facilitates modularizing an application into smaller and more manageable pieces, with packaging, JVM, and class loader graph support. 2008-01-23 | Discuss (1)

Mock Objects: Shortcomings and Use Cases
by Alex Ruiz
Alex Ruiz shows how Mock Objects, a testing technique from the XP community, can help programmers write unit tests. He considers the shortcomings of this technique and provides valuable use cases. 2007-08-22 | Discuss (12)

Exception Advice: An Aspect-Oriented Model
by Barry Ruzek
Barry Ruzek expands on his popular Effective Java Exceptions work by showing how to use aspect-oriented programming to implement the Fault-Contingency exception model. 2007-07-04 | Discuss (5)

Running Quercus, A Pure Java PHP Engine, inside Weblogic Server
by Tim Hanson
Tim Hanson shows how to install and run Quercus, a pure Java implementation of PHP, on WebLogic Server. This implementation makes any Java resources available to PHP scripts, as well as allowing you to run applications such as MediaWiki. 2007-06-20 | Discuss (1)

Dev2Dev Podcast 3: EclipseCon 2008 - Facets Vs. Natures
Podcast
by Konstantin Komissarchik
Konstantin Komissarchik makes a claim that facets are natures 2.0. While natures are hidden from view facets were designed from the ground up to be viewable and manipulated by end users. Konstantin gives a brief introduction to facets and explains how they differ from natures and how they can work together. 2008-03-21 | Discuss (0)

Ajax Programming with BEA Workshop
by Gary Horen
Gary Horen shows how to install and use a free JavaScript editor and debugger from Aptana, Inc., in BEA Workshop. He also demonstrates the use of a message inspector in the Firebug plug-in, an extension for Firefox. 2008-03-05 | Discuss (4)

Dev2Dev Podcast 2: BEAWorld Shanghai 2007 - Workspace 360 Demo
Podcast
Blake Connell demos Workspace 360 during Rob Levy's keynote at BEAWorld Shanghai. Workspace 360 spans all BEA products and will enable you to build dynamic business applications. CEO Alfred Chuang describes dynamic business applications as adaptable, built for change, and designed for people and how people work. 2007-12-13 | Discuss (0)

Dev2Dev Podcast 1: Bill Roth on the Eclipse Europa release
Podcast
by Bill Roth and Daniel H. Steinberg
Bill Roth, BEA's Vice President for Tooling, talks about BEA's relationship with and commitment to Eclipse. He discusses BEA's involvement in the Eclipse Web Tools Platform project, BEA Workshop and Eclipse, SOA tooling, native language support and more. 2007-08-17 | Discuss (0)

A Primer on Spring's Data Access Object (DAO) Framework
by Dhrubojyoti Kayal
This article introduces the Spring Data Access Object (DAO) framework. After examining the architectural needs for DAO, it describes the DAO pattern in general and how Spring simplifies the implementation. 2006-11-29 | Discuss (6)

Announcing the 2006 Dev2Dev Reader Survey
by Jon Mountjoy
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. 2006-11-15 | Discuss (6)

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)

An Introduction to the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 (EJB 3) Specification
by Vimala Ranganathan and Anurag Pareek
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. 2006-03-29 | Discuss (1)

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 (0)

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)

Unlocking the Value of Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration and Authoring Tools
by John Brunswick
John Brunswick looks at how natural participation can help an organization build applications in a more agile manner, using increased collaboration and communication between business analysts and developers. 2008-03-05 | 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)

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)

BEA's SOA Reference Architecture - A Foundation for Business Agility
White Paper
BEA's SOA Reference Architecture offers an architectural framework for planning SOA-based projects that maximize interoperability and reuse, and a consistent vision throughout the enterprise. 2008-03-05 | 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 8: BEA Education: SOA Organization and Governance
Podcast
In this podcast you will hear a discussion of SOA organization and governance including roles, responsibilities and processes needed to adopt SOA. This podcast is brought to you by BEA Education. 2007-09-19 | Discuss (0)

Rethinking SOA Governance
by Quinton Wall
SOA governance comes down to understanding and addressing two complementary factors: cost and profit. This article looks at the incentives for organizations to undertake an effective SOA governance model through a pragmatic approach to addressing cost and profit. 2007-03-14

Building Enterprise RIA Using Flex and WebLogic Server
by Sudhansu Pati
Building enterprise-grade Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using Flex and WebLogic Server is readily accomplished using the wizards and WYSIWYG capabilities of BEA Workshop Studio. Sudhansu Pati shows how in this article. 2008-04-21 | Discuss (0)

SPECjms2007: A Novel Benchmark and Performance Analysis Framework for Message-Oriented Middleware
by Samuel Kounev and Kai Sachs
There is a strong interest in the end user and analyst communities for a standardized benchmark suite for evaluating the performance and scalability of Message-oriented middleware (MOM). This article describe SPECjms2007 - an industry-standard benchmark specialized for MOM. 2008-03-26 | Discuss (0)

Integration of Clustered BEA AquaLogic Service Bus Domain and Remote Tibco Enterprise Message Service
White Paper
by Irene Rusman
This white paper describes messaging communication between a messaging client and an integrated system of a clustered BEA AquaLogic Service Bus domain and a remote Tibco Enterprise Message Service 4.2.0 (Tibco EMS). 2006-11-22 | Discuss (0)

BEA AquaLogic Service Bus and WebSphere MQ in Service-Oriented Architectures
White Paper
by Irene Rusman
This white paper discusses the setup and configuration of clustered BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 2.1 and WebSphere MQ (version 5.3 and higher) with Extended Transactional Client. 2006-11-15 | Discuss (0)

Exploring the WebLogic Integration 8.1 RDBMS Event Generator
by Mahadevan Krishnan
Learn about an approach to integrating databases with enterprise applications through the use of WebLogic Integration event generators. 2007-03-21 | Discuss (4)

POJOs in Action
Book Excerpt
by Chris Richardson
In this book excerpt from POJOs in Action, Chris Richardson explores the benefits and drawbacks of using the Transaction Script pattern and describes how to implement this pattern using POJOs and the Spring framework. 2007-01-17 | Discuss (0)

A Primer on Spring's Data Access Object (DAO) Framework
by Dhrubojyoti Kayal
This article introduces the Spring Data Access Object (DAO) framework. After examining the architectural needs for DAO, it describes the DAO pattern in general and how Spring simplifies the implementation. 2006-11-29 | Discuss (6)

Announcing the 2006 Dev2Dev Reader Survey
by Jon Mountjoy
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. 2006-11-15 | Discuss (6)

Rethinking Connectivity
by Quinton Wall
Connectivity, a critical aspect to any IT solution has received little attention of late. This article presents a broader view of how organizations may approach connectivity through the definition of 4 dimensions; internal, external, industry and hosted connectivity. 2008-04-16 | 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)

BEA's SOA Reference Architecture - A Foundation for Business Agility
White Paper
BEA's SOA Reference Architecture offers an architectural framework for planning SOA-based projects that maximize interoperability and reuse, and a consistent vision throughout the enterprise. 2008-03-05 | Discuss (0)

SOA and Virtualization: How do They Fit Together?
This white paper explores Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and virtualization, showing how aspects of virtualization can be seen as enablers for the flexibility promised by SOA. It also establishes the technical links between SOA and virtualization in enterprise computing. 2008-01-30 | Discuss (0)

Rethinking Connectivity
by Quinton Wall
Connectivity, a critical aspect to any IT solution has received little attention of late. This article presents a broader view of how organizations may approach connectivity through the definition of 4 dimensions; internal, external, industry and hosted connectivity. 2008-04-16 | 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)

BEA's SOA Reference Architecture - A Foundation for Business Agility
White Paper
BEA's SOA Reference Architecture offers an architectural framework for planning SOA-based projects that maximize interoperability and reuse, and a consistent vision throughout the enterprise. 2008-03-05 | 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)

Announcing the 2006 Dev2Dev Reader Survey
by Jon Mountjoy
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. 2006-11-15 | Discuss (6)

RFID Technical Challenges and Reference Architecture
by Puneet Agarwal and Ashok Banerjee, Jeffrey Flammer
Radio frequency identification (RFID) is increasingly being used in retail, pharmaceuticals, transportation, and defense. Learn about some of the technical challenges associated with implementing RFID, and the BEA reference architecture that takes these challenges into account. 2005-11-01 | Discuss (3)

Solving Device Diversity
by Garret Molloy
Learn how to create web applications that target several devices, from browsers to PDAs and mobile phones. Garret Molloy explains how the MobileAware platform extends the Weblogic Platform to create such solutions. 2005-01-24 | Discuss (0)

BEA WebLogic Operations Control: Application Virtualization for Enterprise Java
BEA WebLogic Operations Control is a management framework for virtualized and non-virtualized enterprise Java applications that addresses the key challenges involved in application virtualization. This white paper explores the framework and its use cases. 2008-02-13 | Discuss (0)

SOA and Virtualization: How do They Fit Together?
This white paper explores Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and virtualization, showing how aspects of virtualization can be seen as enablers for the flexibility promised by SOA. It also establishes the technical links between SOA and virtualization in enterprise computing. 2008-01-30 | Discuss (0)

Building Enterprise RIA Using Flex and WebLogic Server
by Sudhansu Pati
Building enterprise-grade Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using Flex and WebLogic Server is readily accomplished using the wizards and WYSIWYG capabilities of BEA Workshop Studio. Sudhansu Pati shows how in this article. 2008-04-21 | Discuss (0)

Using JAX-WS and JAXB with WebLogic Server 10: JAX-WS Customization Binding
by Mike Wooten
Continuing the series on JAX-WS and JAXB, Mike Wooten returns with a set of tutorials covering JAX-WS customization bindings—the part of the JAX-WS specification that covers WSDL-to-Java mappings 2007-10-30 | Discuss (5)

Using JAX-WS and JAXB with WebLogic Server 10
by Mike Wooten
JAX-WS and JAXB are two of the most promising APIs for constructing next-generation, Java-based Web services. Author Mike Wooten provides an overview of the JAX-WS 2.0 and JAXB 2.0 support in BEA WebLogic Server 10.1, and includes sample code to get you started. 2007-09-26 | Discuss (19)

BPEL4People
Specification
Download the BPEL4People specification. This specification introduces an extension to BPEL in order to support a broad range of scenarios that involve people within business processes. 2007-06-25 | Discuss (0)

Building Enterprise RIA Using Flex and WebLogic Server
by Sudhansu Pati
Building enterprise-grade Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using Flex and WebLogic Server is readily accomplished using the wizards and WYSIWYG capabilities of BEA Workshop Studio. Sudhansu Pati shows how in this article. 2008-04-21 | Discuss (0)

Using JAX-WS and JAXB with WebLogic Server 10: JAX-WS Customization Binding
by Mike Wooten
Continuing the series on JAX-WS and JAXB, Mike Wooten returns with a set of tutorials covering JAX-WS customization bindings—the part of the JAX-WS specification that covers WSDL-to-Java mappings 2007-10-30 | Discuss (5)

Using JAX-WS and JAXB with WebLogic Server 10
by Mike Wooten
JAX-WS and JAXB are two of the most promising APIs for constructing next-generation, Java-based Web services. Author Mike Wooten provides an overview of the JAX-WS 2.0 and JAXB 2.0 support in BEA WebLogic Server 10.1, and includes sample code to get you started. 2007-09-26 | Discuss (19)

Incremental Compilation and Error Handling in XMLBeans
by Hetal Shah
Hetal Shah shows how to ease the maintenance of XMLBeans-based applications by using incremental compilation of schemas and custom error handling facilities. 2007-04-18 | Discuss (0)