By accessing the IBM WebSphere Application Server JNDI tree, WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (IBM's free, lightweight J2EE application server built on Apache Geronimo technology) can interact with and reuse virtually any of the J2EE resources that are housed there.

Having employees constantly connected to one's enterprise is vital to many companies. This is one of the reasons Research in Motion's BlackBerry has mustered a massive following (over three million users at the time of this article's writing) in recent years. Blac...

Portlets constitute interactive Web application components whose presentation markup is aggregated and displayed by a portal server like WebSphere Portal. In a previous WebSphere Journal article, we introduced you to the Java Specification Request for the portle...

The phenomenon of globalization has unearthed a major question. With a huge market of non-English speaking customers, how can we facilitate communication to such a large subset of individuals without paying an arm and a leg for translation? In this article, we'l...

JRas is a logging and tracing facility built into IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) that relies on JRas as its internal logging framework. Programmers can also leverage this powerful logging system infrastructure to keep an eye on their enterprise applications powered by WAS.

The Java Specification Request for the Portlet Specification (a.k.a. JSR 168), articulated by the Java Community Process in October 2003, aims to provide a standard for portlets that the portal arena has lacked. Portlets that are written to the JSR 168 spec will b...

JRas is a logging and tracing facility built into IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS), which relies on JRas as its internal logging framework. Programmers can also leverage this powerful logging system infrastructure to keep an eye on their enterprise applications powered by WAS.

The Java Specification Request for the Portlet Specification (a.k.a. JSR 168), articulated by the Java Community Process in October 2003, aims to provide a standard for portlets that the portal arena has lacked. Portlets that are written to the JSR 168 spec will b...

The quest for increased application performance is a science in itself. IBM WebSphere Application Server includes a powerful caching technology called the dynamic cache service, which you can employ in your Web applications to dramatically improve performance.

Reality check: your code likely exists beyond the confines of your cubicle. In today's world - made smaller via the marvels of modern society - it is likely that your code will transcend borders or be seen by individuals who might not necessarily understand English....

The infrastructure used to power an EJB remotely is quite complex. Fortunately, WebSphere Studio saves us from much of the drudgery of manually generating the stubs and skeletons necessary to interact with our EJBs. This article teaches how to partition the EJB co...

In today's society, it's second nature to contact family, friends, and colleagues via e-mail. E-mail has become so integral to our daily ritual that we cannot stay away from it as we make use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other pervasive devices to hav...

We all have our preferences for how we like to have code formatted. Even when working in a team, you commonly see a myriad of coding styles. Manually formatting someone else's code to meet your coding style preferences can be a tedious process that can leave you c...

WebSphere Studio Application Developer, based on the Eclipse platform, is designed with the Java developer in mind. Extreme programming mandates that Java classes be unit-level tested in an automated fashion.