Roland Barcia @ WEBSPHERE JOURNAL

Roland Barcia

Roland Barcia is a consulting IT specialist for IBM Software Services for WebSphere in the New York/New Jersey Metro area. He is the author of one of the most popular article series on the developerWorks WebSphere site, www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0401_barcia/barcia.html, and is also a coauthor of IBM WebSphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration. You can find more information about him at http://web.njit.edu/~rb54

AJAX Requests – Data or Markup?

By Roland Barcia

I just got back from the Real World AJAX seminar in NYC on Monday. Pretty good event with lots of good stories. One issue that caught my attention was the issue of how the back-end returned the data to AJAX applications. Most of the speakers preferred data, excep...

Mar. 20, 2006 11:45 AM Reads: 38,921 Replies: 2

Building SOA Solutions with Service Component Architecture

By Roland Barcia; Jeff Brent

In the previous article (part 1 in WebSphere Journal vol: 3. iss: 4) we began to build an SCA project in WebSphere Process Server. Here in part 2 we pick up the discussion. To see the associated images, please view the article online at www.ibm.com/developerW orks/websphere.

Jan. 30, 2006 09:45 AM Reads: 16,714 Replies: 3

Building SOA Solutions with SCA - Service Component Architecture

By Roland Barcia; Jeff Brent

You may be thinking, oh great, not another programming model. What about Web services? What happened to Enterprise JavaBeans? Well, Service Component Architecture (SCA) is not meant to replace or compete with any existing programming models. Instead, SCA gives you...

Jan. 24, 2006 09:00 AM Reads: 26,110 Replies: 2

Developing Java and Web Services Applications on Rational Application Developer V6

By Roland Barcia

In this article, WebSphere consultant Roland Barcia answers questions on developing J2EE and Web services applications on IBM Rational Application Developer V6 and deploying and testing those applications on WebSphere Application Server V6. Topics include usin...

Jan. 19, 2006 11:15 AM Reads: 35,486 Replies: 3

Examining the Programming Model Extensions

By Roland Barcia

Back in version 4 of IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS), IBM released the Enterprise Edition of WAS. In version 5, IBM continued to release the Enterprise Edition (later renamed IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundations in v5.1) with even more func...

Feb. 23, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 25,908 Replies: 2

Build and Deploy Procedures

By Roland Barcia

This chapter, 'Build and Deploy Procedures' is excerpted from the new book, IBM WebSphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration, authored by Roland Barcia, Bill Hines, Tom Alcott and Keys Botzum. © International Business Machines Corporation 2005.

Oct. 26, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 24,533

JavaServer Faces (JSF) vs Struts

By Roland Barcia

My JSF article series and Meet the Experts appearance on IBM developerWorks received a lot of feedback. I would have to say, the most common question or feedback came along the lines of comparing Struts to JSF.

Oct. 19, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 200,665 Replies: 8