Part 1 of this article illustrated how to use WBI Modeler 5.1 to model a business process. We used the example of a simple 'Web Order' business process and showed how it can be modeled in a BPEL-compliant mode. The artifacts created in Part 1 were exported into th...

A software development lifecycle begins by trying to understand the system you want to build. One of the de facto ways to understand a system is to model the business processes that collectively constitute its functionality. Each business process is an effort to s...

In Part 2 of this two-part series (Part 1 appeared in Vol. 9, issue 4) I shall try to construct an XML Schema, take you through the steps required to convert an XML document into its corresponding Java classes and interfaces, and also show how to generate an XML d...

The first article (Vol. 3, issue 9) in this series on WebSphere Portal Servers (WPS) search capabilities introduced you to some basic capabilities of the native search features of WPS.

Portal applications usually require a search capability. Portal designers usually look into search engine products like Lotus Extended Search or open source implementations like Lucene in order to satisfy the search requirements.

It has been well proven over the past few years that the best form of information exchange (in a typical B2B and B2C environment) is through XML. There are various XML-based standards (schema) for both the horizontal and vertical market sectors and there are ongoi...

JAXB (Java Architecture for XML Binding) provides a convenient way to bind an XML Schema to a representation in Java code and makes it easy for developers to incorporate XML data and processing functions into applications based on Java technology without having to...