As a software architect and developer, I've used a number of IDEs for my J2EE
development. I have my priority list of features that I look for in all the
IDEs but I wasn't able to find one that gave me everything I wanted.
If an IDE satisfied some of my needs, it completely ignored my other needs.
The BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 IDE, however, delivers most of the features
I've been looking for. Now I'm a happy WebLogic Workshop user and I want to
share some of the best features with you.
IDE Features
One of the strengths of BEA WebLogic Workshop is its ability to do pretty
much all the development using this tool. It is a one-stop shop for J2EE
development. The following list gives you an idea of what you can do with it.
Please note that this is not the complete list: Java ... (more)
BEA Systems, Inc. recently announced the launch of new family of products for
service infrastructure, named AquaLogic. AquaLogic Service Bus (ALSB) is
BEA's implementation of the Enterprise Service Bus combined with Web services
management capabilities. This article is a high-level introduction to ESB and
ALSB.
In their Harvard Business Review article, Giovanni Gavetti and Jan W. Rivkin ... (more)
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become today's technology buzz and
it's rapidly becoming a mainstream approach to enterprise systems design.
Beyond the buzz of SOA, organizations face several challenges as they attempt
to truly effectuate the paradigm shift towards SOA. One critical challenge
is: How can we assure the quality of the business services that we build? Can
the servic... (more)
As the field of service-oriented architecture (SOA) evolves, it brings
interesting challenges that should be addressed in order to drive its
adoption and realize the benefits it has been promising. It took a while for
many to understand that SOA is not purely a technology issue.
SOA is an IT strategy and it requires a shift in the way we think about how
IT is aligned with business and how... (more)
This article is the second of two on best practices in building business
processes on BEA WebLogic Integration 8.1. The first installment (WLDJ, Vol.
3, issue 6) focused on team development and maintenance best practices. In
this article, we will focus on best practices in building business processes
with scalability, recovery, exception handling, guaranteed delivery, and high
performanc... (more)
Anbarasu Krishnaswamy has over 15 years of IT industry experience, nine of which were with BEA. In his current role as the Enterprise Architect Lead, he leads the enterprise architecture and SOA practices for the central region professional services at BEA. As a SOA practitioner, he has helped several customers with SOA transformation and implementation. His experience also includes design and development of Java/J2EE applications, client/server computing, Web development, and enterprise application integration (EAI). Anbarasu holds a MBA from NIU and an MS in computer science and engineering.
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