SEPTEMBER 2007
By developers, for developers
Develop@BEAWorld, Mock Objects and Podcasts

The Develop@BEAWorld Conference is almost here, part of the larger BEAWorld. This year it's in San Francisco (September 10-12), Barcelona (October 2-4) and Shanghai, with a fantastic lineup of talks. Check out the Enterprise Web 2.0 and Core Application Development topic lists. They include everything from "Open JPA and Spring", "Lightweight WebLogic Server", "WebLogic Performance Guide" and "Developing WebLogic Portal Services" to an "Introduction to Adobe Flex with Workshop", "Mashups, Widgets, Pagelets and reusable Interface services" and more.

Besides these tracks, San Francisco will also host a Liquid Developer Playground, a separate area with pre-configured machines that are running many BEA products, samples and more. BEA facilitators will be attending to assist developers and answer questions as best they can.

There's also the main BEAWorld conference with tracks covering Business Integration, Enterprise Foundation, SOA in Governance, Financial Services, Telecommunications and more. Rod Johnson will be keynoting.

I'll be in Barcelona, and Sarah in San Francisco. We'd love to meet you, so drop us a line.

Regards,
Jon Mountjoy
Editor, BEA Dev2Dev
Mock Objects: Shortcomings and Use Cases
Alex Ruiz shows how Mock Objects, a testing technique from the XP community, can help programmers write unit tests. He considers the shortcomings of this technique and provides valuable use cases. There are plenty of ongoing discussions in the comment section of this article.
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WebLogic Event Server Administration with wlshell
In this tutorial Paco Gómez shows how to perform BEA WebLogic Event Server (WLEvS) administration with the wlshell scripting shell.
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Dev2Dev Podcast 1: Bill Roth on the Eclipse Europa release
Bill Roth, BEA's Vice President for Tooling, talks about BEA's relationship with and commitment to Eclipse. He discusses BEA's involvement in the Eclipse Web Tools Platform project, BEA Workshop and Eclipse, SOA tooling, native language support and more. This kicks off Dev2Dev's new podcast functionality: find us in iTunes!
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Practical Advice on Becoming a Better Blogger
Becoming a better blogger is a snap. This guide provides 11 key steps to improving the way in which you blog. Although intended for our Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch bloggers, it is relevant to a wider audience too.
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Featured Item
 
» Develop @ BEAWorld
 
Upcoming Webinars
 
»  Smart Virtualization – Taking the benefits to the next level
 
On-demand Webinars
 
»  The Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF): Building Communications into Tools and Applications
»  Consistent Service Engineering and Management
»  Converging Internet and Communications with BEA WebLogic Communications Platform
 
Poll
 
» What method do you use to install WebLogic Server without a graphical interface?
 
 
Education
Pre-conference session for architects, IT personnel at BEAWorlds San Francisco, Barcelona

Are you an architect who is getting ready to expand your SOA project to enterprise-wide deployment, or part of an IT group who needs to understand the architectural concerns associated with SOA?

BEA Education Services is hosting an all-day pre-conference session at BEAWorlds San Francisco and Barcelona to tackle topics relevant to these roles.
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In the Blogs
Public Bugzilla database for WebLogic Server Tools
Pieter Humphrey writes that BEA has recently introduced http://bugzilla.bea.com/, "which is about a different approach that we are trying for developing and maintaining software. The basic idea is to get developers in closer contact with end users so that we are fixing problems that our customers are hitting."
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PHP Portlets
David Inskeep shows how to write a PHP portlet in WebLogic Portal. As David points out, "For a JSP portlet, the WLP framework leaves the rendering of the portlet content to whatever is specified in the contentUri - if we install Quercus, wouldn't this work for a .php file as the contentUri?"
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Persistence of Generic Graph
Supplemented with many code samples, Pinaki Poddar answers the question of "How to model, persist and operate on a generic Java object graph that can be stored in a relational database?" Lots of OpenJPA and Kodo too.
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Ajaxifying Portlets - Part 2: Managed Ajax
Subbu Allamaraju, in a two part blog series, shows how to add Ajax functionality to your portlets. He combines the popular Dojo toolkit with WebLogic Portal, using the new bea.netuix.ajax.client.XMLHttpRequest functionality. On a somewhat related note, check out Fred's description of the difference between JSR 168 vs WSRP.
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Some simple rules for deliverables
Hoos: "I recently had to the misfortune of opening up some EAR files that were delivered from a highly developer centric, Maven munching build process that integrated offshore code. In order to avoid another delivery of rubbish I asked them to adhere to some simple rules."
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