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1 of 30 | Using JAX-WS and JAXB with WebLogic Server 10: JAX-WS Customization Binding - Continuing the series on JAX-WS and JAXB, Mike Wooten returns with a set of tutorials covering JAX-WS customization bindings?the part of the JAX-WS specification that covers WSDL-to-Java mappings ...

2 of 30 | Securing Web Services with WebLogic Server 9.2 - This tutorial discusses the three facets of Web services security: message integrity, message confidentiality, and authentication, and follows this with a comprehensive tutorial on how to implement secure Web services on WebLogic Server. ...

3 of 30 | An Introduction to JSON - Daniel Rubio provides an introduction to the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), illustrating its benefits, drawbacks and probably use scenarios as an alternative to XML. ...

4 of 30 | 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. ...

5 of 30 | Exposing a Radisys Convedia Media Server feature as a Web Service using WebLogic SIP Server - Learn how to build a SIP servlet-based application using WebLogic Workshop that leverages WebLogic SIP Server to drive products in the RadiSys family of Convedia Media Servers. ...

6 of 30 | Understanding the Service Lifecycle within a SOA: Run Time - Knowing how to effectively manage the lifecycle of services is fundamental to achieving success within a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiative. Quinton Wall returns to tell us about the run-time phase of this service lifecycle. ...

7 of 30 | Handling Schemas without Namespaces in WebLogic Workshop 8.1 - Integrating legacy applications sometimes requires handling XML schemas without namespaces. In this tutorial, Bea Chan shows how to avoid possible namespace clashes when generating XMLBeans from such schemas. ...

8 of 30 | Using JMeter to Performance Test Web Services - The Apache JMeter performance testing framework is widely accepted as a performance testing tool for Web applications. It can also be used for Web services, and in this tutorial, Dmitri Nevedrov provides an introduction to its features and use. ...

9 of 30 | Load, Save and Filter XML Documents Using the DOM Level 3 API - The DOM Level 3 API introduces a number of new DOM features, including a new way of retrieving an XML parser. In this article, Deepak Vohra presents the load, save, and filter features found in the DOM Level 3 API. ...

10 of 30 | Practical Enterprise Service Bus Use Cases for SOA - What is the role of an ESB within SOA? In this article, Kenny Shin provides some practical advice, illustrating how an ESB adds aspects such as transport security, data validation, and messaging patterns to Web services. ...

11 of 30 | Performance Testing of Tuxedo Applications with IBM Rational Robot - The Zyntax Tuxedo Adaptor allows testing of BEA Tuxedo versions 7 and higher. Author John Straathof shows an example recording of a small test application and looks at issues that arise in real-world applications. ...

12 of 30 | XMLBeans 2.0 - A Java Developer's Perspective - This article introduces some of the new features found in Apache XMLBeans 2.0, including XPath/XQuery integration, DOM Level II support, and support for generics. ...

13 of 30 | Securing Services Using the AquaLogic Service Bus - The AquaLogic Service Bus enables the separation of security concerns from service implementation. In this tutorial, Paul Done demonstrates this by applying a WS-Policy file to a simple proxied Web service. ...

14 of 30 | Use JMS Clients to Utilize Free Computer Resources - In this article, Nimish Doshi proposes using JMS to distribute work to underutilized computer resources. He presents two solutions, one of which uses WebLogic Workshop and WebLogic Integration to control the workflow of job distribution. ...

15 of 30 | Using the WebLogic Portal Rules Engine to Implement Dynamic Business Logic in a WebLogic Integration Process, Part 1 - Agile business applications need to expose business logic in a way that is flexible and easily changed. Learn how to use the rules engine in WebLogic Portal to add flexibility to business processes defined in WebLogic Integration. ...

16 of 30 | Building an Advanced Beehive Control - The controls aspect of Apache Beehive offers a powerful programming model. In this article, Lawrence Jones takes a behind-the-scenes look at how controls are built—examining annotation processing, artifact generation, and control assembly. ...

17 of 30 | Integrating JavaServer Faces with Beehive Page Flow - JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a technology for building Web application user interfaces. Apache Beehive's Page Flow is an annotation-based Web controller technology. In this article, Richard Feit shows how to integrate these two technologies. ...

18 of 30 | Successfully Planning for SOA: Building Your SOA Roadmap - In this continuation of our series on planning for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Steve Bennett emphasizes the need for an SOA roadmap. ...

19 of 30 | Service Component Architecture - Learn about Service Component Architecture, a new technology to simplify application development and implementation in a service-oriented architecture. ...

20 of 30 | Successfully Planning for SOA - This article kicks off a series looking at how to plan for Service-Oriented Architecture, or SOA. Achieving real business benefits requires a fundamental change in the way you think about system design, and this article introduces several strategies, including the BEA Domain Model. ...

21 of 30 | Demystifying Security Standards - Security is a fundamental aspect of architecture. This article, part of a series looking at security standards, introduces Web Services Security (WSS), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML). ...

22 of 30 | Recommended Approaches to Service-Oriented Architecture - "SOA is the business operations strategy for leveraging information to meet their objectives, such as increasing overall revenue, increasing customer satisfaction, and improving product quality," says Yogish Pai in this article introducing SOA to business and IT executives. ...

23 of 30 | Pro Apache Beehive - Learn the architecture of Apache Beehive Controls, and how to write your own, in this book excerpt from Pro Apache Beehive by Kunal Mittal and Srinivas Kanchanavally. ...

24 of 30 | A Backbase Ajax Front-end for J2EE Applications - To develop manageable, scalable, and future-proof Ajax solutions, developers need tools that go far beyond custom widget development. In this article Mark Schiefelbein introduces the Backbase Ajax software, which provides a comprehensive client-side GUI management engine, a flexible server-side XML pipeline, and a declarative tag-based UI language. ...

25 of 30 | Turning Web Sites into Web Services - How do you expose existing assets, accessible through a Web interface, as Web services Jesper Jørgensen shows us by illustrating how the Kapow RoboSuite integrates with WebLogic Server, and how WebLogic Workshop can be used to easily build such interfaces. ...

26 of 30 | NetUI Page Flows: An Evolution of Struts - NetUI Page Flows, part of the Apache Beehive project, offer a simplified Struts programming model. In this article, Srinivas Jaini introduces Page Flows, examining how they differ from vanilla Struts, and how you can migrate to a Page Flow-based framework. ...

27 of 30 | Integration using Data Services - The Data Services Layer is an important abstraction at the heart of the AquaLogic Data Services platform. The author provides a gentle introduction to the need for data services and its relationship with SDO and SOA. ...

28 of 30 | XML as a Bridge between SQL and Web Applications - Have you ever wanted to treat data returned from an SQL query as XML In this tutorial, Alexander and Olexiy Prokhorenko present a technique for doing just this, and argue that it makes a useful addition to a developer`s toolbox. ...

29 of 30 | Business Rules Engines Within Enterprise Platforms - This article compares ILOG JRules to the XML-based rule engine within BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1. The article also discusses the role of Java Specification Request (JSR) 94 for the integration of rule engines into a J2EE platform. ...

30 of 30 | Enterprise Integration: The Essential Guide to Integration Solutions - Learn how a SOA Specification can provide architecture and design guidance for applying a service-oriented architecture approach to integration. ...