Sam Pullara

Working at a software company and watching products evolve over the years, "Migrate Early, and Often"is the best advice I can give someone who is trying to stay on the cutting edge of technology. Obviously, if you have an application that's in production with no problems and you aren't planning on adding any new features, then of course keep the same version of the underlying platform. However, if you're developing a new application and are currently in the process of architecting and designing, you should definitely talk with your vendor about what you can expect in upcoming releases. Although you might not target the initial phase of your project to the new release, you can ensure that you have the flexibility to upgrade when that time comes. Keeping your options open... (more)

CMP 2.0, EJBGen, and Builder Make EJBs Easy!

EJBs have always been the best way to ensure that your applications were portable and would leverage all the optimizations of the J2EE server. Now they are also easy to build. With the release of WebLogic Platform 7.0, you can create EJBs in record time. At the center of this revolution is Container Managed Persistence 2.0, which allows WebLogic to build tools that remove the layers from... (more)

Using JMX

The Java Management API (JMX) has been integral to managing the WebLogic Server since WebLogic 6.0. Through this API you can search for management beans (mbeans) within the application server and query them for both configuration information and runtime monitoring information. In addition, this API can be used to actually change the configuration of the server. In fact, this API is used ... (more)

Integration via Web Services

WebLogic Server 7.0 contains the most advanced, performant, and standards-compliant Web service stack of any application server. With an additional download (until the JAX-RPC specification goes final - it may by the time you see this article - see http://jcp.org/jsr/detail/101.jsp) you get a Java standards-compliant Web service stack that also passes the SOAP interoperability tests. So ... (more)

Message Driven Beans

Wow. That's what I have to say when I look back at where WebLogic began and where it has gone since then. When I started working at WebLogic, the only core people there were the founders, the president, an administrative assistant, and a lone sales person. Of course, back then our big moneymakers were the JDBC drivers. We always said, "You know, in two months, Oracle/Sybase/Microsoft is ... (more)