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
Founda...
This two-part article
discusses application
deployment, particularly
automated updates, to IBM
WebSphere Application
Server in a large-scale
enterprise environment.
It applies to Application
Server versions 5.0, 5.1,
and 6.0, and al...
WebSphere Portal is all
about the integration of
users and administration,
a common look and feel,
and a standardized
application programming
model. With Portal,
various back-end systems
can be integrated to a
common user experience...
When the Office of the
Chief Information Officer
at the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) called for a
renovation of the
Department's signature
Web site, energy.gov, the
plans were ambitious:
blow up and reorganize
the site's organiza...
You don't have to look
any further than your own
driveway to get a sense
of some of the challenges
facing the automotive
industry. First, is the
type or brand of vehicle
you're driving now
different from your
previous vehicles? The ...
In an enterprise
WebSphere 5.1 deployment,
the application business
logic is developed as
Enterprise JavaBeans
(EJB). In many
situations, there exists
a need to execute
standalone Java programs
that run outside the
container. To r...
IBM is known in the
industry for releasing
software products that
are tremendously powerful
yet tremendously complex;
unfortunately, because of
the latter their software
installations are
sometimes quite
difficult. Actually, in
th...
Interoperability is the
key to using Web services
architecture since many
applications can
collaborate to maximize
business functions. With
the capability of
creating an application
on a different
architecture, including
the appli...
The new IBM WebSphere
Application Server (WAS)
v6.0 software introduces
the concept of Server
Profiles. Profiles can be
thought of as a specific
server runtime
environment operating
within a separate
instance of the JVM.
I received a lot of
feedback last month on my
'Will Every Child Be Left
Behind?' editorial. A lot
of you related your
collective disappointment
in the current state of
our public schools. What
surprised me was the
number of readers ...
Being the good techie
that I am, I did the
majority of my holiday
shopping on the Internet
last month. That means
when things go wrong as
they rarely, but
sometimes do, you have to
turn to the telephone for
customer service. That
...
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If you've read my column
before, you've mostly
seen reviews of software
development tools for
WebSphere. This column is
a bit of a departure from
the usual. All of u
Quality-conscious
developers are familiar
with the idea of coding
checklists. The code you
write must measure up to
all the criteria on the
checklist, from 'no gramm
WebSphere MQ, formerly
known as MQSeries, is
industry-leading
middleware created by IBM
Corporation. Due to its
assured delivery of
messages, data integrity
and reso
Most developers would
agree that software
development is not as
daunting a task as is
efficient software
development. We have seen
teams that can design and
develop
In the September Java
Developer's Journal (Vol.
5, issue 9) we discussed
the tools available in
VisualAge for Java and
WebSphere Studio for
building and debugging We