Laurence Moroney

When WLDJ wanted someone to take a First Look at Visual MainWin for J2EE, we turned to interoperability expert Laurence Moroney - coauthor of a forthcoming book on Web services security and a senior architect in a major financial services house in New York City. In the course of assessing the product, Laurence in fact became more and more involved - in the end, on a staff basis - with the company behind it, Mainsoft. So this First Look should be read with that basic journalistic disclosure in mind. When WebLogic workshop was first conceived and presented to the public, it was done so as an alternative to the hugely popular Visual Studio.NET development environment - one that was just as easy to use, and equally if not more powerful, because it would allow you to build J2EE applications, including EJBs, in as easy a manner as a VB programmer could put together a Win... (more)

Application Management with NetIQ AppManager Suite

As budgets are shrinking at the same pace that requirements are growing, there is a squeeze on enterprises to show value for the dollars spent on expensive software and hardware for running applications. It is clear that software such as application servers, while offering more and more features, also costs more and more, and that the accountability factor is fast becoming a priority for information professionals. However, as the complexity of typical systems continues to increase, finding the strategy to optimize bang for the buck grows exponentially in difficulty. Enter an exp... (more)

SOA Web Services And Best Practices For .NET WebSphere Interoperability

Mixed-mode deployments where the data center has a mixture of different technology platforms, hardware, and software and where those platforms interoperate together to deliver software applications is the norm rather than an exception. Experience shows that it's a challenge getting applications to run across a diverse array of software and hardware platforms with acceptable availability, performance, scalability, and security. As such, several methodologies and standards of integration or interoperability have evolved, the most common being Web Services, which despite their powe... (more)

Silverlight Races To Victory in Singapore's 2008 Formula 1 Grand Prix

Laurence Moroney's Blog Here's another Silverlight app that I've been bursting to share with y'all. It's from the promotion site for the 2008 Formula 1 Grand Prix being hosted in Singapore and sponsored by SingTel. It's a great and innovative use of Video. They are running a competition called the 'heart race' where 20 models will get your heart racing, but can you get theirs to race? The 20 models are laid out on screen as you can see above, and they are just doing their thing, hanging out, smiling, hoping that they catch your attention (these are video loops, the screen grab do... (more)

Best Practices in Migrating from .NET to Linux

For many businesses, the Web storefront is the only point of contact for customers, and for others it's a major one. As such, it's important that this architecture meets the needs of your business, not just from a technology point of view but from a strategic one. No business likes to have an important asset be vulnerable to the whims of a particular vendor, and this is particularly true of a technology asset. As you probably know in IT there are two broad options that can implement your business needs: the Microsoft family of Windows and .NET products, and the open standards com... (more)