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)
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)
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)
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)
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)