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...
From battery powered
tablet computers to
Internet connected smart
phones, advances in
networking and electronic
miniaturization have
created more ways to
access Internet services
and data than ever
before. Old problems can
now be ...
IBM iSeries systems are
installed in an estimated
250,000 organizations. If
yours is one of them,
then most likely your
group is either
interested in or
committed to
modernization, which
could mean you wish to
enhance the user
i...
Once upon a time if a
development team wanted
to implement memory
caching, the developers
had to code a Java
Singleton class and
maintain key value pairs
using the Java API's
hashtable in memory.
Business Process
Execution Language (BPEL)
is a non-proprietary,
XML-based language
developed by a group of
major vendors including
IBM, BEA, and Microsoft.
Its function is to
describe how Web Services
interact with one another
to...
WebSphere Application
Server (WAS) for z/OS is
IBM's z/OS implementation
of the J2EE server
design. To build robust
and efficient WAS
environments on z/OS, you
must determine the
topologies that address
your needs. Since WAS for
z...
In the last part of this
three part series, we're
going to look at some
advanced topics and
further considerations
for running WebSphere
effectively under UNIX,
including monitoring,
security and resilience.
There is often a gap
between what the business
needs are and what IT
delivers. Modeling the
business, and the
directly related IT
systems to it, helps
define the most effective
opportunities for
automation. Business
modeling also...
Architectures aren't what
they used to be, and our
business models and
drivers aren't either. As
our business processes
and drivers grow more and
more complex so does the
need to improve the
underlying architectures
that support the...
IBM's WebSphere Commerce
product is a platform for
developing and deploying
value chain solutions
from a consumer-centric
online sales channel to a
completely integrated,
multi-tier demand chain.
A variety of design
patterns were us...
The idea of a 'pure'
application development
continues to lose meaning
in an enterprise IT world
that continues to try to
integrate legacy systems
with server networks,
local-area networks,
increasing varieties of
wireless networks ...
A few months back I used
to this column to
cogitate about the nature
of a sphere. I
subsequently compared
that type of thinking to
the wrongheaded 'the
world is flat' new
paradigm that is going
around the world (so to
speak) becau...
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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