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