Pre-Conference Workshops
Sunday, March 2, 2003

Morning sessions: 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Developing Enterprise Web Services with BEA WebLogic Platform

This workshop shows how Web Services revolutionize the way you build and integrate enterprise applications. The course explains the rationale behind the Service-Oriented Architecture, where business components and processes are exposed as Web-accessible services. It will illustrate how Web Services plays a pivotal role in the integration of all enterprise application components hosted on the BEA WebLogic Platform and how the BEA WebLogic Workshop environment facilitates Web Services development.

Recommended audience: Senior J2EE developers, J2EE architects, and project managers involved in architecting Web Services or enterprise applications that use them.

Architecting an End-to-End Enterprise Solution with BEA WebLogic Platform: A Case Study

This workshop shares lessons learned from putting large scale, BEA WebLogic Platform-based, enterprise scale applications into production. Using the premise of a case study, it will touch on the trade-offs made to meet business objectives with the intended architecture. These trade-offs include intended business functionality, time to market, security, performance and scalability, operations and administration and integration and the interactions between these areas.

Recommended audience: Enterprise architects who are typically responsible for multiple projects and strategic, consistent architecture across the enterprise and lead application designers and team leads, offering an understanding of the big picture.

The 3-hr Web Site Makeover: Turning Your Stagnant Web Site into a Dynamic Web Presence with BEA WebLogic Portal

This workshop focuses on how to re-energize a Web site by applying design best practices and BEA WebLogic Portal capabilities. During the workshop, a lackluster Web site will be transformed through application of Portal/Portlet and Personalization features of the BEA WebLogic Portal product.

Recommended audience: Experienced J2EE-based application developers who want to speed development of personalized, interactive, Web-based portals.

Afternoon: 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Securing Enterprise Applications with BEA WebLogic Platform

This workshop shows how to build enterprise-grade security into your application, using the latest security technologies, without the burden of security implementation intricacies. Through a series of demonstrations, students witness the evolution of an application's security as the BEA WebLogic Platform Security Architecture is used to address the requirements for authentication, authorization, auditing, data integrity, and privacy.

Recommended audience: Application developers who use the WebLogic Security Service to secure interactions between Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs), Web applications, or Java applications, and WebLogic Server. Also, Administrators of WebLogic Server who are responsible for the installation, configuration, and deployment of WebLogic Server, including security.

Managing Enterprise Data with BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic

This workshop covers the motivation and use of the new BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic product to provide data integration across multiple, heterogeneous data sources. The course illustrates how to build and test queries within the product's Data View Builder tool, the power of the underlying XQuery language, and means for accessing these queries within your enterprise applications.

Recommended audience: Data Architects, Database Administrators, and J2EE Application Developers.

Supercharging Your Enterprise Applications with JRockit & Design Patterns

This workshop focuses on two effective ways of building maintainable and well-tuned J2EE-based applications. First, the course shows how to apply proven architectural, design and deployment patterns to an enterprise application's presentation, business logic, and data layers. It will also cover the architecture, configuration, and use the high-performance Java Virtual Machine, BEA WebLogic JRockit™, to ensure reliability, scalability, manageability, and flexibility for server-side Java applications.

Recommended audience: Experienced senior J2EE developers, J2EE architects, and project managers interested in improving the design and performance of J2EE-based applications.