Breathing New Life into Legacy Systems - Web services as an API
The technology world is abuzz with talk of Web services. Code warriors and suits alike are touting it as the next big thing. The incorruptible Apache Software Foundation has spawned a whole top-level...
View ArticleUDDI and User-Defined Taxonomies
UDDI allows providers to publish information about their services in a common registry. A key part of this process is to describe services in an accurate and consistent way so potential users can...
View ArticlePerformance Testing Web Services
The successful development of scalable Web services on WebSphere (or any other application server) requires thorough performance testing. Applying a well-designed, consistent performance testing...
View ArticleExchanging Trade Information Among Mercosul Member Countries
Mercosul (or Mercosur) is a trading zone among Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay founded in 1991. Its purpose is to promote free trade and the movement of goods and people, and skills and money...
View ArticlePlug-and-Play Remote Portlets
Portlets constitute interactive Web application components whose presentation markup is aggregated and displayed by a portal server like WebSphere Portal. In a previous WebSphere Journal article, we...
View ArticleFrom Blueprint to Skyscraper
As many people correctly predicted, Web services and their corresponding service-oriented architecture (SOA) have proven their promise. Companies and businesses are starting to not only integrate new...
View ArticleDevelop Web Services Clients
Interoperability is the key to using Web services architecture since many applications can collaborate to maximize business functions. With the capability of creating an application on a different...
View ArticleWebSphere First Look: Introducing IBM Workplace Designer 2.5
This article will introduce you to Workplace Designer 2.5. We begin with a brief overview of Workplace Designer and how you can use it to create Workplace applications. We then take a closer look at...
View ArticleSOA Programming Model for Implementing Web Services
Securing access to information is basic to any application. Security becomes even more critical for implementations structured according to SOA principles due to their loose coupling of services and...
View ArticleThe EJB Advocate: SOA Applications Using Java EE
In each column, The EJB Advocate presents the gist of a typical back-and-forth dialogue exchange with actual customers and developers in the course of recommending a solution to an interesting design...
View ArticleMyEclipse 6.5 Blue Edition: Next-Generation ALM and Open Source Development...
Genuitec announced the availability of MyEclipse 6.5 Blue Edition; a next-generation ALM and open source-friendly IDE for WebSphere. Of note, users will be drawn to multiple technologies not currently...
View ArticleTwo SOA Projects That Can Pay For Themselves in Six Months
Service oriented architecture (SOA) could revolutionize the way we think about IT. Why is that possible? Because SOA finally has the potential to make the concept of reuse real. Companies have been...
View Article5GL PaaS
The debate has raged for some time now about the exact definition of a 5GL. One might argue that there also is still some debate going on about what exactly is a Platform as a Service PaaS. Throw...
View ArticleExploring Cloud Deployment Models in IBM Workload Deployer
One of the fundamental tenants of IBM Workload Deployer is a choice of cloud deployment models. Starting in v3.0, users will be able to deploy to the cloud using virtual appliances (OVA files), virtual...
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