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The SOA of Reality The Western conception of time relentlessly flying forward is a key underpinning of many societies' continuous focus on improving things, becoming more efficient, getting ever better, and not wasting a minute in the process. Mar. 25, 2005  Reads: 12,555

Energy and Utility Companies Heat Up Their Network Operations With their ubiquitous overhead wires, poles, underground cables and transfer stations, it's easy for energy and utility companies to blend into the landscape and appear to be part of a slow-moving, slow-changing industry. But during the last 10 years, spurred in part by deregulation, m... Mar. 25, 2005  Reads: 7,785

How to Identify, Specify, and Realize Services for Your SOA There has been a lot of buzz and hype, some factual, some not so well-founded, surrounding the opportunities presented by Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) and their implementation as Web services. Analysts have predicted, pundits have professed, professors have lectured. And compan... Mar. 25, 2005  Reads: 14,476

Simplifying Java and J2EE Development Most IT shops recognize the need for applying Java technology. So what keeps Java from becoming even more prevalent than it is today? Mar. 25, 2005  Reads: 17,917

XML Access 101 The world of WebSphere Portal Administration and configuration can be full of tedium and frustration. If you've ever manually constructed trees of portal places and pages, complete with containers and rows and portlets, you may have initially been quite satisfied with yourself. But the... Mar. 25, 2005  Reads: 16,569  Replies: 1

"Server, Heal Thyself" At the forefront of IBM's autonomic computing strategy is WebSphere Application Server v6. This version of the application server is designed to automatically detect problems ranging from small network glitches to large-scale power failures and, in a matter of seconds, save and process... Mar. 25, 2005  Reads: 13,160

The Big Picture IBM WebSphere Portal Server is based on J2EE architecture and requires IBM WebSphere Application Server to run. IBM WebSphere Portal Server helps to personalize and aggregate content, and eliminates information overload for the users. Web site developers want to keep a consistent look ... Mar. 25, 2005  Reads: 9,148  Replies: 1

Support of Composite Applications in WebSphere Portal In the first of our three-part series, published in November 2004, we introduced the composite application model and how WebSphere Portal supports it. Composite applications are a class of application whose fundamental construction model is the composition of parts or components. They ... Mar. 25, 2005  Reads: 15,533

The Year of SOA Let's take a quick generational placement test. Who among you remembers The Year of the LAN? Sorry, I'll speak up. WHO AMONG YOU REMEMBERS THE YEAR OF THE LAN? Raise your arthritically-challenged arms, please. Mar. 25, 2005  Reads: 10,341