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)

Jumpstart SOA

The struggle to integrate business assets across the .NET - J2EE technology divide is legendary. So it should come as no surprise that the emergence of portal applications as an enabler of Service Oriented Architecture is forcing enterprises to revisit interoperability challenges in a user-centric environment. The aim of a portal is to integrate all enterprise data and applications into a coherent whole, and it is wasteful if the portal becomes simply another silo, limited in what it can aggregate due to back end technology constraints. For the portal to be an effective collabor... (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)

Interop Update: A Fast Track to Rehost Your .NET Applications

You already know the sheer productivity advantages of developing applications that run on the .NET framework using the Visual Studio.NET IDE, and have likely developed and deployed one or more of these in the years since they became generally available. But did you know that you can double your market reach for .NET Web and server applications by rehosting them, without major modifications, to run on Java-enabled platforms such as WebSphere running on Linux? According to Forrester Research, J2EE is used by 56 percent of financial services and insurance companies, and by 44 percen... (more)

Getting Started with Silverlight: Zero to Hero

Lots of people have been asking about how to get started with Silverlight, and what they need to do to get up and running with Silverlight quickly. Inspired by blog posts such as Jesse Liberty's, I'm going to take this from first principles, with no prior knowledge assumed. Over the series, we'll look at the following: Your First Silverlight Application Understanding XAML Understanding the Blend series of Products Building Silverlight applications using Aptana on the Mac Building Silverlight applications using Visual Studio Express on the PC Programming Silverlight 1.0 with JavaS... (more)