Anbarasu Krishnaswamy

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)

Web Services Interoperability

Web services has been promising to solve several business problems, including those of integration and interoperability. While Web services standards like SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI help to facilitate it, they don't really ensure it. In the past, application-to-application integration and business-to-business integration were not easy due to the various platforms involved or different software ... (more)

Building Business Processes Part 1

A business process in the real world typically is never done end-to-end by a single employee. It usually involves multiple employees/back end systems handing over work, similar to a 4x100 track relay where batons are passed between the athletes. The employees/back end should be passively notified of their tasks rather than actively waiting. BEA WebLogic Workshop provides a great framewor... (more)

Building Business Processes Part 2

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)

Enterprise Service Bus

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)