Vol: 5 Iss: 4 Read Back Issues

Combining SOA and Event-Driven Architecture Using an Enterprise Service Bus To be able to adapt to market changes, organizations tend to focus on flexibility and responsiveness. The IT challenge has usually been to support this business vision with the appropriate architectures and technologies. Jul. 19, 2006  Reads: 14,295  Replies: 7

WebSphere News Round-Up IBM will be upgrading its IBM WebSphere Portal, making it easier to work with composite applications, making it faster and easier for businesses to realize the benefits of integrated applications and reusable services, and integrating it with technology it acquired from its Bowstreet a... May. 26, 2006  Reads: 15,152

Breaking Down a Complex App Development Area Database locking strategies is one of the most complex areas of application development -- and one of the most critical for reliable application performance and behavior. The basic issues, common strategies, and general recommendations on when and how to use different locking strategie... May. 22, 2006  Reads: 12,724

WebSphere Cover Story — ESB Implementation with WAS for z/OS V6 More and more companies are starting to adopt Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) - a framework for integrating business processes and supporting IT infrastructure as secure standardized components or services that can be reused and combined to address changing business priorities. May. 19, 2006  Reads: 17,376  Replies: 2

Leverage Existing WebSphere Application Server J2EE Resources By accessing the IBM WebSphere Application Server JNDI tree, WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (IBM's free, lightweight J2EE application server built on Apache Geronimo technology) can interact with and reuse virtually any of the J2EE resources that are housed there. May. 18, 2006  Reads: 15,100

Building a Powerful, Reliable SOA with JMS and WebSphere ESB Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is never established in a vacuum. In any real life situation, an existing IT environment must be taken into consideration, offering functionality -- and data -- that cannot simply be replaced by a set of new services. Hence, a key aspect of building ... May. 18, 2006  Reads: 13,807  Replies: 2