The high interest in business visibility, flexibility, and knowledge
management has made portal technology a popular choice for monitoring,
searching, and managing business activity across the enterprise. BEA WebLogic
Platform provides an attractive platform for building highly dynamic
enterprise portals that can aggregate, organize, and present information from
multiple back-end systems. Whether the portal is implemented with the
feature-rich environment of WebLogic Portal Server, or through an MVC
framework such as "Jakarta Struts", the newest release of BEA's 8.1 platform
provides many new features that create a powerful portal environment.
However, as enterprise portals begin to aggregate ever-increasing numbers of
services across disparate technology domains, geogra... (more)
Enterprise portals have become the most popular method of offering a common
user interface to a suite of services across the enterprise. Offering
business visibility, flexibility, and knowledge management, portals promise
users the ability to monitor, search, and manage business activity across the
enterprise.
However, as portals mature from basic offerings to more complex sets of
servi... (more)
Part 1 of this article (WLDJ, Vol. 1, issue 8) explored third-party Java
Message Service (JMS) integration into WebLogic Server (WLS) and addressed
related issues. In Part 2, we'll implement transactional JMS design patterns
using SonicMQ and the WebLogic Server Adapter (WLSAdapter) as the JMS
solution. Included in this discussion are the message-driven bean (MDB),
message-producing bean... (more)
BEA WebLogic Server (WLS) is the most widely deployed J2EE application server
and continues to be an attractive platform for many enterprise-class
situations.
As part of its support for J2EE 1.3, WLS now embeds a Java Message Service
(JMS). The implementation is straightforward; using many built-in WLS
features, it proves worthy at moderate scale in predominantly WLS
environments.
Desp... (more)
Hub Vandervoort is vice president of Professional Services for Sonic Software. He has over twenty years experience as a consultant and senior technology executive in the networking, communications software, and Internet industries. Vandervoort previously co-founded three start-up ventures, including early message-oriented middleware (MOM) leader Horizon Strategies, Inc., which he merged with Momentum Software Corporation. He also co-founded, and served as board member of the Message-Oriented-Middleware Association (MOMA).
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