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 Not long ago I worked on a team charged with building up a Java-based REST infrastructure. Our goals were to first support what was then an emerging specification for Java-based RESTful services called JAX-RS. Beyond that, we had thoughts of building an entire framework, both server an...Oct. 30, 2009 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 796 |
 What is a cloud computing platform? Is it simply automated provisioning systems coupled with a resource virtualization, where the workload is policy driven, and resources over committed and any resource contention handled by policy driven resolution? As it turns out technologies that p...Oct. 28, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,061 |
 As the IT operations continue to evolve and transform the business towards agility and adaptability to ever changing rules of marketplace, the efficiency of any IT operation is of paramount significance. The phrase ‘time to market' has a completely new meaning in today's dynamic busine...Sep. 26, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,230 |
 With IP networks taking on many new challenges from VoIP, rich multimedia and other high-bandwidth consuming and high-priority applications, SMBs need to be sure the network connectivity between their business and Cloud Computing provider is protected with controls for reliable Interne...Sep. 23, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,318 |
 Justifying the extra investment for developing a single-purpose service – a service expected to solve only one large business problem - instead of putting the single-purpose logic inside a non-service-oriented application can be challenging. Reuse, the most popular motivation for creat...Sep. 14, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,177 |
 Small and medium businesses (SMBs) that have previously considered virtualization in the cloud but decided that it is too expensive or simply not viable should think again. Virtualization and cloud computing enables SMBs to green their operations and build IT infrastructures that are a...Sep. 14, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,978 |
 While there’s certainly no shortage of opinions on the future of SOA, the reality is that SOA is very much alive. The core principles of what SOA can do in terms of cost savings, increased productivity, and the virtual elimination of information and application silos won’t go away. How...Sep. 11, 2009 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,926 |
 ESB products emerged around 2002 from message-oriented middleware (MOM). Faced with market domination by IBM, MOM vendors were the first to jumpstart the ESB concept with the aim of developing a unique selling proposition. They added Web service and EAI capabilities on top of existing ...Sep. 10, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,942 |
 If cloud computing talk from the government seemed like lip service at first, it has certainly moved beyond that now. According to an InformationWeek article, the federal government’s General Services Administration (GSA) issued a Request For Quotation (RFQ) for cloud storage, web host...Aug. 17, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,433 |
 Cloud computing is slowly gaining credibility and traction in the enterprise world. As giants such as Google and Amazon productize their massive cloud infrastructures, moving enterprise applications to the public cloud seems a more realistic possibility. The advantages of an enterprise...Jul. 21, 2009 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,821 |
 A couple of patterns that could cause Java heap exhaustion were identified from years of research at IBM. One interesting scenarios was observed when Java applications generate excessive amount of finalizable objects whose classes have non-trivial Java finalizers. A Java finalizer perf...Jul. 16, 2009 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 7,242 Replies: 1 |
 We can visualize resource starvation using an elaborate rendition of the Dining Philosophers Problem. This classic metaphor of resource allocation among processes was first introduced in 1971 by Edsger Dijkstra in his paper “Hierarchical Ordering of Sequential Processes.” It’s been a m...Jul. 16, 2009 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 9,926 |
 The health care industry, including hospitals, has the greatest need for sophisticated information systems because of the enormous amount of data it handles and because of its life-and-death responsibilities. Yet the implementation of large-scale and robust-enough IT systems in public ...Apr. 25, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,384 |
 This is a blog that proposes five distinct ways in which cloud computing solutions can strenghten the efforts of development and test teams within an enterprise.Apr. 15, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,872 |
 Software-as-a-Service brings together many of the best characteristics of corporate IT systems and the Internet to form a new method of software delivery that is reliable, flexible and cost effective; however, this model is not without its challenges, particularly with regard to profit...Apr. 13, 2009 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,819 |
 Think in terms of all of your IT assets as part of a portfolio of innovation, and it becomes easier to think of you to put them to creative use that drives operational efficiency.Mar. 7, 2009 07:42 PM EST Reads: 2,286 |
 A standard from OASIS called Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) is used so portlets can be decoupled from a portal. In part one (JDJ, Volume. 13, issue 3) of this article, we introduced the relevant standards and specifications and then demonstrated WSRP's capabilities by consumin...Jul. 17, 2008 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,742 Replies: 1 |
 The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li...Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 26,841 Replies: 6 |
 There's no question that Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) will continue to lead the IT and business agenda. After all, an SOA offers a flexible, extensible, and composable approach to reusing and extending existing applications and services, as well as constructing new ones.Apr. 14, 2007 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 14,993 Replies: 2 |
 Patterns emerge as software engineers begin to notice recurring problems. If you design software and you face a situation in which you ask yourself 'Gee, I can't be the first person facing this problem!' your search for a pattern has just begun. Once you find and apply a pattern, your ...Aug. 9, 2006 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 21,779 |
 This article demonstrates the steps performed to implement JSR 168 compliant cooperative portlets using IBM Rational Application Developer V6.0 and WebSphere Portal Server V5.1. The article illustrates passing multiple values from source portlet to target portlet without defining compl...Aug. 17, 2005 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 26,329 |
 Our latest book, Developing Web Services for Web Applications, takes you on a guided tour of developing and using Web Services with Rational Developer and WebSphere. This article, an extract from the book, gives you an introduction to the basic steps to create and use a simple Web Serv...Jul. 29, 2005 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 18,444 Replies: 1 |
 This article is meant to bring you up to speed on Java dumps and their debugging purposes quickly. It assumes that you?re familiar with basic Java, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and threading concepts. Some information about Java dumps and their contents is intentionally omitted from...Jul. 29, 2005 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 63,274 Replies: 2 |
Wily Technology (www.wilytech.com) provides Enterprise Application Management solutions. The company's products are designed to enable companies to successfully manage their critical Web applications and infrastructure by providing real-time, end-to-end visibility into the performance ... Jun. 22, 2005 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 16,655 Replies: 1 |
Web services will continue to play a vital role within enterprises, as companies strive to create cost-effective solutions that can be integrated into existing infrastructures. J2EE and Microsoft's .NET are the two primary platforms used in Web services. And while these two platforms c... Nov. 4, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 27,263 Replies: 3 |
On October 6, 2004, IBM announced the latest release of WebSphere, version 6. The next day, Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WebSphere Journal, sat down to talk with Dr. Bob Sutor, the director of WebSphere Foundation Software, about some of the new features in this release. Oct. 26, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 18,431 |
The WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment version 5.0 (WAS ND) provides an infrastructure for you to centrally administer multiple WAS servers, resources, and other elements of your topology. Your managed topology can include support for clustered servers with workload manage... Jun. 28, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 32,544 Replies: 2 |
Community integration elevates collaborative commerce to a new level of integration between enterprises. In the past, traditional B2B solutions have fallen short of market expectations for community integration due to scalability issues, lack of transaction visibility across the tradin... Feb. 27, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,472 |
In the November issue of WebSphere Developer's Journal, Stefan Van Overtveldt tells WSDJ editor-in-chief Jack Martin that WebSphere Application Server 5.0 is 'the next generation of application server,' and that it offers broad support for open standards and Web services, and fosters i... Jan. 30, 2004 07:52 AM EST Reads: 5,482 Replies: 1 |
Since the mid-'90s we've seen the quality of Web programming paradigms mature at an astonishing rate: from static pages with animation, CGI-based programs, and JDBC connectivity to back-end relational databases and servlets processing requests on application servers. We commonly hear a... Jan. 30, 2004 07:52 AM EST Reads: 14,833 |
On September 6, IBM and eBay jointly announced that the two companies have forged an alliance on three fronts. First, IBM landed a public software coup when eBay selected WebSphere as its next-generation trading platform. Second, IBM will expand its presence on eBay, making the trading... Jan. 30, 2004 07:52 AM EST Reads: 10,002 |
A good Web development tool should be easy to use, yet robust enough to create and edit static and dynamic pages, organize and publish files, and help the developer properly maintain the site. IBM's WebSphere Studio is a total project management workbench with several integrated tools ... Jan. 30, 2004 07:52 AM EST Reads: 8,546 |
A sampling of industry experts offer their thoughts on what the coming year will bring for the IT industry in general - and for WebSphere in particular. Jan. 23, 2004 04:43 PM EST Reads: 11,010 |
UDDI & User-Defined Taxonomies - Part I: Create and test a user-defined taxonomy in WebSphere Studio UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration) plays the pivotal role of matchmaking between service provider and service requester. Sophisticated publish and inquiry capabilities allow providers to describe their offerings, and seekers to locate them. The quality and depth o... Jan. 23, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 12,544 |
Many patterns have been published for J2EE applications. By developing and connecting multiple patterns, developers can create a framework that improves the stability, performance, and scalability of their J2EE application architectures. Jan. 23, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 23,499 Replies: 3 |
According to a 2002 study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), buggy software costs the national economy $60 billion, more than a third of which could be saved through improved software testing alone. Dec. 24, 2003 12:19 PM EST Reads: 9,191 |
Large organizations have a considerable investment in their legacy applications by virtue of the fact that they have a sizable IT history. These legacy applications are a smorgasbord of mainframe and pure client/server applications from the '70s and '80s. Dec. 24, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,706 Replies: 1 |
Your team has just spent several months hammering out an enterprise-critical application and it feels as if you've been on the hot seat forever. The once vibrant and enthusiastic development team now resembles the cast of 'Thriller' as they burn the midnight oil night after night. Dec. 24, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 14,952 |
To provide the best performance and availability for WebSphere applications, administrators and developers count on scalability features found in the software, hardware, and networking components that host their WebSphere domain. More than ever, the availability of our Web applications... Dec. 24, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 18,794 Replies: 1 |
Many developers who have designed, coded, tested, and deployed Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications have learned the hard way that not all J2EE features perform effectively under heavy production loads. One must consider a number of variables during each phase of the IBM WebSp... Dec. 24, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,446 |
