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The Second Battle for the Desktop We often like to assume that most corporate IT organizations have kept somewhat up-to-date with all of the various technological innovations over the years, and have done so in an incremental manner. However, the reality of the situation is quite different. You may (or may not) be surp... Apr. 29, 2004  Reads: 15,925

XA Transactions Most developers have at least heard of XA, which describes the standard protocol that allows coordination, commitment, and recovery between transaction managers and resource managers. Products such as CICS, Tuxedo, and even BEA WebLogic Server act as transaction managers, coordinating ... Apr. 9, 2004  Reads: 39,088  Replies: 4

Transactions, Suspension, and the Ticking Clock This month's article is again inspired by a posting on the weblogic.developer.interest.transaction newsgroup. The question (excerpted from the posting) was: Does the 10 in weblogic-ejb-jar.xml apply to transactions that are in a suspended state? Apr. 9, 2004  Reads: 18,162  Replies: 1

Application Management with WebLogic Server for Developers, part 5 This article is the fifth in a series of articles on BEA WebLogic Server administration and management for developers (see WLDJ, Vol 2, issues 10 -12; Vol. 3, issue 2). We have focused on WebLogic Server administration concepts and terminology, the graphical tools for packaging an appl... Apr. 9, 2004  Reads: 19,904

Modernizing Legacy Systems, Part 3 This is the last installment in my series of articles on modernizing legacy systems with the BEA WebLogic Platform (WLJ, Vol. 3, issues 2-3). Part 1 introduced a high-level 'modernization process,' with a 'recipe' towards modernizing legacy systems. Apr. 9, 2004  Reads: 8,770

'HTTP Session Replication Failure' Issues Sometimes, HTTP session states are not replicated from the primary server to the secondary server. The application using HTTP session does not function as designed and you see a loss of session data. You might be asked to re-log into the application even when the session has still not ... Apr. 9, 2004  Reads: 25,720

Developing Entity EJBs Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) are application components that implement the EJB architecture specification and are part of the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform. EJBs are ideally suited for the development and deployment of distributed, scalable, transactional, secure, portable, ... Apr. 9, 2004  Reads: 26,235

Considering MySQL? Read On... (Part I) MySQL is a small, fast, and efficient database. This article discusses leveraging MySQL as the database with BEA WebLogic Server 8.1. We will look at using MySQL as the database engine where the application is developed using BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 and deployed to BEA WebLogic Serve... Apr. 9, 2004  Reads: 21,662

An Architectural Blueprint, Part 1 Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become the single most important theme in software engineering. Clearly, the proliferation and unanimous acceptance of Web services, together with a new wave of case-like IDEs that support the development of SOA-based solutions, make SOA the pref... Apr. 9, 2004  Reads: 13,116

News & Developments H & W has announced the release of DiagnoSys Performance Scouts, comprehensive mainframe data collection agents for its DiagnoSys intelligent performance management solution. Together, DiagnoSys and Performance Scouts ensure that crucial Web applications perform optimally, keeping user... Apr. 9, 2004  Reads: 10,586