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August 2004

WebLogic & Web Services

August 31, 2004

I found a great resource for people starting out developing Web Services on the WebLogic platform via Jason's blog. In his blog entry, Jason talks about the two "underground" code repositories maintained by BEA engineers that are not officially sanctioned by BEA's management. The first link to http://webservice.bea.com/ fails but the second link to Manoj's [...]

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Books I'm currently reading

August 30, 2004

As a recurring feature, I post a list of books that I am currently reading. I am a voracious book collector and (usually) reader as well. With a new baby that's less than 2 months old, reading time is at a premium and so I've built up quite a backlog. Books I am currently reading [...]

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WebLogic blog entry on WebLogic developer journal

August 24, 2004

My blog entry on the WebLogic deployment issue was just posted on the WebLogic Developers Journal site.  Check it out @ http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=46106&DE=1

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WebLogic Deployment Bug or Feature?

August 23, 2004

If you've haven't run into this issue yet, you'll appreciate this little nugget. I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug in WebLogic's deployment infrastructure. I ran into this issue a while back and completely forgot about it, till I ran into it this weekend.
A little background first: Most people that [...]

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WJUG> Tapestry by Example

August 23, 2004

Thanks Brennan for reminding me – I almost forgot about the upcoming Wisconsin Java Users Group meeting on Wednesday, August 25th. The topic for this meeting is Tapestry and Erik Hatcher will give the talk. The goal of this talk is to introduce Tapestry gently through interactive demonstrations. For the uninitiated, Tapestry is an open-source, [...]

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Sun makes another boneheaded move

August 20, 2004

So what's new, right? In typical Sun fashion, Sun asked JDocs to pull off the J2SE, J2ME and J2EE API's from the JDocs site. According to the JDocs.com Update from Rick Ross, Sun claims that its business interests are not served by allowing them to be included in the JDocs site. Ok – I can [...]

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BEA dev2dev Live!

August 17, 2004

Just got an email from BEA announcing something called BEA dev2dev Live! BEA dev2dev Live! is an online technical event center bringing together live webinars and both downloadable and on-demand training events. BEA dev2dev Live is focused on educating and training developers, architects, and administrators with key tips, tricks, best practices, and in-depth "how-to" sessions [...]

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Designing J2EE Applications for Real-Life Clustered Environments

August 16, 2004

Designing J2EE Applications for Real-Life Clustered Environments by Anil Sharma and Navneet Singh — What works on a single server can crash and burn in a cluster. In this article, the authors draw from their practical experience to list and discuss some critical considerations when building J2EE applications so that they can be deployed in [...]

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Navigating the Web-development Framework jungle

August 16, 2004

The landscape of application frameworks, especially in the web tier has really matured and grown where they are many quality choices available for the developer. My team and I are in the process of starting some major development work on a bunch of new J2EE applications and I'm sticking my head up and trying to [...]

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My daughter has a blog

August 9, 2004

My daughter is only 4 weeks old today and she already has her own blog. Kids today Check it out @ http://www.katiesblog.com

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Maven: Trove of Tips

August 8, 2004

Maven: Trove of Tips by Andreas Schaefer — Maven not offers not just a build tool but an entire project environment, including documentation and testing features. All of which is a lot to bite off with an existing project. Andreas Schaefer made the switch to Maven and has some real-world lessons he learned from the [...]

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What's going on at BEA?

August 4, 2004

First Adam Bosworth and now Scott Dietzen! What the hell is going on over at BEA? BEA is starting to look like Sun with all the management talent bolting. In all my conversations with people at BEA, it seemed the Dietzen really supported and championed working with the open source community, standards bodies and other [...]

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