Portals have been hailed as the key to making disparate data silos, platforms, and services work together seamlessly to support a business’ requirements. But underlying the apparent openness and flexibility of some portals is often a tangle of dependencies that limits the number of components that can run on a single portal instance and creates instability.

BEA’s architecture enables a flexible portal infrastructure through support for remote Web services, collaboration features and openness to many platforms and development languages. This makes it far easier and faster to leverage old systems and create the new applications your business is demanding. See for yourself: Get an overview of portal technologies and benefits for the service-oriented enterprise from the latest BEA white paper. Attend a half-day seminar, The New Role of Portals, presenting a synthesis of research on the portal market from analyst reports, technology reviews, customer case studies, and BEA technology experts. And stay tuned for details of the next edition of BEA WebLogic Portal®, launching at the end of June.

If Borland’s recent decision to stop investing in JBuilder has you concerned, take advantage of BEA’s limited-time offer to swap JBuilder licenses for BEA Workshop™ Studio seats at half price. BEA Workshop Studio won the Eclipse Awards in 2006 for best commercial development tool, and this is a rare opportunity to get a significant discount on its industry-leading capabilities. This special offer ends July 31, 2006.

This seminar for architects and developers will focus on the Spring Framework and the latest developments in Enterprise Java Beans, the Open JPA project for EJB 3.0. Find out more about the new tools that are available for combining two of the hottest technologies in enterprise Java: Spring beans and Enterprise Java Beans 3.0 implemented by the Open JPA project.

Is your mission-critical Blended application scalable? Does it cause business down time? Does leveraging both open source deployment platforms and applications built with open source Java frameworks alongside commercial software add to complexity? If you’re dealing with these challenges of Blended development, check out several new resources from BEA: an online Blended Resource Center for developers and architects and a white paper that describes how to make informed and effective decisions for scaleable, manageable business-critical applications.

Manufacturers are under pressure to implement RFID to meet retailer and government tagging requirements within tight timeframes. For architects, the challenge is to meet today’s mandates quickly and cost-effectively to speed ROI, without inadvertently creating problems for future expansion of RFID tagging and verification into other areas of the business. BEA is ready to help with a comprehensive solution and expert advice captured in a solution brief, Intelligent RFID Compliance.