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 J2... (more)
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?
Th... (more)
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... (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... (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
modificatio... (more)