FEBRUARY 21, 2007
By developers, for developers
WebLogic Server 10 Technology Preview now Java EE 5 Compatible

The new build of the WebLogic Server 10 Technology Preview is now Java EE 5 compatible. In other words, it passes the Sun Compatibility Test Suite. Besides the download, check out the release notes and documentation.

This release also adds several new Web services capabilities in support of SOA (including interoperability testing with Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation - aka 'Indigo') and further support of the blended model with tighter integration to the Spring Framework. An updated BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform is also included supporting the latest Eclipse 3.2 and Web Tools Platform 1.5. BEA’s Patrick Linskey was interviewed by InfoQ about the release and provides some great technical details about what's new.

BEA has just launched its Liquid Thinkers initiative. Check out the profile of Rod Johnson, a founder of the Spring Framework, to get a flavor of the profiles on the site.

Regards,
Jon Mountjoy
Editor, BEA Dev2Dev

Web Services for Remote Portlets Reference Architecture and Performance Behavior
This white paper shows how the BEA WebLogic Portal 9.2 implementation of Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) behaves under load and describes a reference implementation with configuration information using best practices.
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Using PHP-Java Bridges with WebLogic Server
How can you run both PHP and Java side-by-side and reap the benefits from both of these technologies? In this tutorial Gary Horen shows how to utilize two different PHP-Java bridges to do just this.
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Featured Item
 
» Liquid Thinkers
  Rod Johnson is featured in this month's Liquid Thinker campaign. Visit the site for details!
 
Upcoming Webinars
 
» AquaLogic Data Services Platform — Harnessing the data explosion
» Leveraging SCA to Implement Next Generation SOA
 
On-demand Webinars
 
» Enterprise Mashups with WebLogic Portal 9.2
» Backbase Ajax and BEA Workshop Studio
 
 
Events
EclipseCon 2007
BEA are going to be at EclipseCon 2007 this year, and our Dev2Dev event coverage page points to some of the sessions that we'll be participating in - ranging from JSF tutorials to WTP and Maven. Check out and subscribe to the event coverage page for more details as the conference unfolds.
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Education News
Learning at your own pace
Yu-Ting writes in the Education Services blog that "online self-study is now an option for learning at BEA. Access Web-playable recordings created from the same great course materials from instructor-led classes. In accommodating individual learning styles, the course recordings are broken out into modules that focus on specific tasks and last approximately 30 minutes each. Students can also choose to purchase only the modules that are relevant to them."
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In the Blogs
When is a BUG and good thing?
"When it's, err, a BEA User Group!" says Hoos in this review of the first meeting of London Middleware as an official Dev2Dev BUG. It's great to see our community members out of the office!
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SOA - A move towards Compliance
Suchin Rengan talks about the complexity of standards compliance (HIPAA, SOX) and what this means to SOA. If you start creating services in an application for which compliance levels are needed, how do you go about enforcing those standards using policies? Suchin describes a possible solution and invites others to contribute theirs.
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A Transactional File System
Cindy McMullen writes about how the content management team are looking at how to use transaction file systems as a possible implementation of the file system repository. Cindy asks, "Wouldn't it be nice if file systems could be considered transactional resources so that the component code (Portal CM code, in this case) could handle atomic operations to read and write on your file system?" and points to Jakarta's Commons Transaction framework as a possible implementation.
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Adrenalize Windows Vista with Portlets from WebLogic Portal
Microsoft Windows Vista provides an important step forward for the client desktop computer experience. Here, Josh Lannin shows how users of WebLogic Portal can extend the reach of their portal investments to employees, partners, and consumers running Vista by leveraging Adrenaline technology. A reader has contributed an OS X widget to do the same!
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