SOA: Are We Reinventing the Wheel?
by Nick Simha
Do you get a feeling of déjà vu when you hear vendors pitching new technologies? Nick Simha does, and so investigated the hype around Service Oriented Architecture, looking at CORBA, DCom, J2EE, Web services and the new kid on the block, service infrastructure, en route. May 03 2006 | Discuss (1)

Sharing Data among Federated Portals: Using WebLogic Portal, Tangosol Coherence and WSRP
by Jason Howes
The WSRP protocol has no provision for sharing data between a Consumer and its Producers. In this article, Jason Howes shows how combining BEA WebLogic Portal's WSRP extensions with Tangosol's Coherence product can provide a seamless and very efficient solution. November 14 2005 | Discuss (2)

Demystifying SAML
by Harold Lockhart
Continuing our look at security standards, Hal Lockhart explores SAML, the Security Assertion Markup Language. Using Identity Federation as a driver, Hal shows why SAML is now a critical requirement of modern networked environments. November 09 2005 | Discuss (4)

Demystifying Security Standards
by Harold Lockhart
Security is a fundamental aspect of architecture. This article, part of a series looking at security standards, introduces Web Services Security (WSS), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML). October 11 2005 | Discuss (7)

Creating Callback Enabled Clients for Asynchronous Web Services
by Reza Shafii
Although BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 supports callback enabled Web service clients, many other platforms don't. This article shows the mechanics needed to support asynchronous Web services on these other client platforms. March 14 2005 | Discuss (3)

Architectural considerations for SOA
by Martin Percival (mpercival)
The first day of a BEA architect summit in Budapest threw up lots of new material looking at SOA.
June 07, 2006 at 05:30 PDT | Comments (0)  

XMLBeans and Workshop 9.2
by Chris Hogue (hogue)
More and more applications these days are dependent on XML and XML processing. Workshop 8.1 users will know the power that XMLBeans provides for working with XML documents and how first class support in the IDE makes life easier. With Workshop for WebLogic Platform 9.2 that support has been made even better, and is available to a wider range of applications. In this post I'll describe a couple of the changes, then how to use XMLBeans in the Workshop 9.2 IDE.
June 05, 2006 at 19:46 PDT | Comments (9)  

Where's My Service Control !?
by Chris Hogue (hogue)
Some people have had trouble finding the Service Control in Workhsop 9.2. Don't worry, it's there and as good as ever.
May 26, 2006 at 09:00 PDT | Comments (0)