The advent of AJAX as a Web application model is significantly changing the traffic profile seen on the server side. The typical Web pattern usage of a user sitting idle on a Web page filling out fields and hitting the submit button to the next link is now transforming into sophisticat...

BEA has announced the availability of BlueDragon, BEA WebLogic Edition. BlueDragon is designed to help enable customers to modernize and extend legacy ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) applications to run on BEA WebLogic Server, thereby allowing companies to reuse existing technology t...

Compuware Corporation introduced the new version of its QACenter Enterprise Edition functional testing solution, Compuware TestPartner 5.4. This new release offers a tight functional testing integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System and support for the Microsoft .NET Fr...

Most non-trivial applications involve high degrees of concurrency and many layers of abstraction. Concurrency is associated with resource contention and an increase in deadlock conditions. The multiple layers of abstraction make it more difficult to isolate and fix the deadlock conditi...

BEA has released the beta version of its WebLogic Platform 9.2, which includes WebLogic Server, WebLogic Portal, and BEA Workshop for WebLogic platform.

I'm the 'tech chair' of SYS-CON's 10th annual SOA and WebServices conference that will take place on June 5-6 in New York City. Last week I've invited Joel Spolsky to make a keynote speech at this event. Guess what, Joel has accepted my invitation! If you have a chance to attend this t...

Typical enterprise IT environments have as much as 90% of their hardware and software resources sitting idle at any given time, in anticipation of usage spikes. The Cassatt software, called Collage, creates a dynamic, virtual pool of resources that business applications can draw from,...

With the advent of BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1, a host of new technologies was introduced. These are, among others: Java Page Flow with annotations, Java Controls, and a new IDE to support it. Online tutorials were also thrown into the package to show how the new technologies were supposed...

WebLogic Server 9.0 is the most significant BEA Java application server release to date. Fully compliant with J2EE 1.4, this release tackles head-on the biggest challenge facing enterprise networks today: reducing overall cost of management and operations while delivering high reliabil...

This article describes a workaround design that allows a Portal to survive if its resource starts hanging request threads. How frequently does your Portal experience user requests hanging in the resource? Not frequently, I hope. However, if this happens and the resource continues hangi...

Sun Microsystems, Inc. , the creator and leading advocate of Java(TM) technology, today announced a series of accolades from both the Java Developer's Journal (JDJ) and SOA Web Services Journal Reader's Choice Awards. Sun products and technologies were recognized as winners for three c...

'Today's marketplace requires that companies improve customer retention and profitability, which means focusing on strategies to increase service effectiveness and lower service costs in their contact centers,' said Marty Robins Vice President, Partner Marketing, BEA Systems. 'Jacada o...

JadeLiquid Software announced the release of WebRenderer Server Edition, the leading Java browser component. WebRenderer Server Edition has successfully completed its beta phase. Development of the WebRenderer Server Edition was driven by overwhelming demand for a standards compliant J...

The Apache Jakarta POI project provides components for the access and generation of Excel documents. The POI HSSF API is used to generate Excel Workbooks and to add Excel spreadsheets to a workbook. An Excel spreadsheet consists of rows and cells. The layout and fonts of a spreadsheet ...

In this column over the years, I have spent a considerable amount of time talking about contention and locking in the database tier. At the end of the day, the endless conversations about scaling the application tier boil down to less than a bag of beans if a scaled application can't g...

It is rumored on a couple of news sites that Oracle is buying JBoss. If this is true, it is an exciting opportunity for BEA. Oracle would, IMHO, kill JBoss, whether through malice or benign neglect. Not many people realize that with the acquisition of M7, BEA now has a development tool...

An anecdote that an engineer shared with me recently reminded me of a long-standing concept in manufacturing, design for production (DFP). The concept has to do with evaluating how a given operation - production line, supply chain, or an entire factory - is performing.

Let me start by defining the current problem-detection process in most enterprises. An issue arises in the production environment for a J2EE application running on WebLogic, information is captured via logs, and WebLogic server is rebooted. From this point, application developers and a...

'JBoss closed out 2005 in a stronger position than ever. We exceeded our sales goals, expanded our operations and delivered many industry firsts in the technology arena,' said Marc Fleury, chairman and CEO, JBoss, Inc. 'These new appointments in the JBoss management team reflect our tr...

BEA Systems, Inc. , a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced that BEA WebLogic SIP Server(TM) has received a 'Product of the Year' award from INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) magazine, a leading publication in the rapidly growing VoIP/IP telephony industry.

Yakov Fain, in Lesson 9 of his immensely popular online 'Java Basics' series for JDJ Industry Newsletter, talks about using threads for creating more advanced programs than those already discussed in Lesson 8. He analyzes the role they play in major Internet portals like Yahoo, CNN, or...

A J2EE application deployed in the WebLogic server may be debugged in the Eclipse IDE with the remote debugger provided by Eclipse. Without a debugger the error message has to be obtained from the application server error log to debug the application.

BEA Systems today announced the general availability of AquaLogic High-Performance (HiPer) Workspace for Retail, a closed-loop notification and task management product for improving store operations, built with technology from the AquaLogic User Interaction product family. AquaLogic H...

Covalent Technologies(TM), the mosttrusted source for complete enterprise open source solutions, todayannounced it finished 2005 on a strong note, citing a record number of newand repeat customers, strategic reseller and channel relationships, as wellas increased revenues and bookings ...

Once upon a time people spoke the same language - but that was long ago. Nowadays people speak hundreds of languages with unique characters, inflection indicators, and other punctuation marks that make each language different from all others.

BEA Systems, Inc. a world leader in enterprise infrastructure, today announced that Forrester Research has identified BEA and its AquaLogic Service Bus as a leader in both segments of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) market. In its 'Forrester Wave(TM): Enterprise Service Bus, Q4 2005'...

Oracle Corporation today announced that it intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, three series of investment grade notes for an aggregate principal amount of $5 billion. One series will mature in 2009, one series will mature in 2011 and one series will mature in 20...

In a statement today, Oracle spokesperson, Bob Wynne said, 'Given Siebel's announcement today, we look forward to a favorable Siebel stockholder meeting on January 31st and completion of the merger on the same day or very soon after.'

'We've used the Internet to find jobs since 1994, but the rules for conducting a safe and successful job search have changed,' said Susan Joyce, Webmaster of Job-Hunt.org. 'Now, identity theft over the Internet is a significant problem, and there is tough competition for every job pos...

The HP/BEA banking solution is designed to simplify application infrastructure throughout the enterprise, while extending the lifetime of IT investments. One customer, Norway's Sparebank, reported a 12-percent increase in customer satisfaction through deployment of technology from the ...

SandCherry has designed its software so that IT organizations can use a single SOA implementation for self-service applications for both Web and voice, and voice self-service includes Interactive Voice Response (IVR), the company says. SandCherry recently leveraged its technology to be...

Tenrox, the Integrated Operational Control and Compliance Software Company, today announced that the Company's modular, project governance and compliance software has been certified by SAP for its seamless integration with SAP(R) Business One. Tenrox's solution provides robust import ...

Ness Technologies Inc. , a global provider of information technology solutions and services, today announced that it has extended its distribution agreement with SAP AG for the Israeli market until 2010.

BEA Systems, Inc. , a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced that its JRockit(R) JVM (Java Virtual Machine) has set another record, by netting a SPECjbb2000 benchmark result of 861,647 operations per second.

BEA Systems, Inc. a world leader in enterprise infrastructure, today announced that T-Systems has standardized on BEA WebLogic(R) to underpin Deutsche Telekom's multi-national billing and revenue collection system. Through the implementation of BEA WebLogic Server(TM) 8.1, this leadin...

Wind River Systems, Inc. will host its Southern California 2006 Regional Developer Conference on January 11, 2006. The one-day event will highlight aerospace and defense (A&D) industry trends, demonstrate the latest Wind River technology innovations in A&D and also demonstrate how to d...

As part of its continued commitment to provide customers with simple, flexible and transparent licensing models, Oracle today announced an update to its multi-core processor pricing and licensing policy. The new policies improve parity among hardware vendors and help ensure that cust...

Along with Auto Tuning WebLogic, Arcturus is taking enterprise application monitoring to the next level. Arcturus AutoPilot using its IntelliCheck technology, not only provides great visibility into J2EE applications running on WebLogic but also proactively detects and warns of conditi...

The Eclipse Foundation will make the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) 1.0 release generally available the week of Dec 19th, 2005.

BEA was as excited last week as Sun by the new T1000 and T2000 CoolThreads servers, announced with some splash in New York in an event that stressed Sun's return to focusing on price/performance, with a newly added twist of emphasizing low power consumption and correspondingly lowered ...