Richard Gornitsky

Diogenes is a startup software manufacturing company that develops products to integrate applications over the Internet. We were looking for a book to help us integrate our product, iMercury, into IBM's WebSphere Application Server. iMercury is a 100% Internet-designed Java messaging product that is lightweight, self-configuring, RSA security-enabled, and provides automated installation and configuration. I stumbled onto Ron Ben-Natan and Ori Sasson's IBM WebSphere Application Server: The Complete Reference. Given my pleasant experience with their previous book, IBM WebSphere Starter Kit, I felt that this would be a good reference source for the WebSphere Application Server. But they lied! The title misrepresents the book. It's much more than a complete reference for IBM WebSphere Application Server. It covers the entire WebSphere brand and the Internet technologie... (more)

WebSphere Journal Cover Story: Support of Composite Apps in WebSphere Portal

In the first article of our three part series, we introduced you to the composite application model and how WebSphere Portal supports it. A composite application is a class of application whose fundamental construction model is the composition of parts or components. It is formed by choosing components from a catalog or palette, placing those components on some design surface, and interconnecting the components to create the behavior desired. Composite applications within WebSphere Portal are based on portlets. Portlets can be considered to be modules of the composition model sinc... (more)

The Support of Composite Applications in WebSphere Portal

What are composite applications and how do they help me? In this three-part series we will introduce the concepts behind a new class of applications called composite applications and explain their need and structure. In this article, we will present a high-level overview of composite applications, the benefit they provide, and how WebSphere Portal supports them. In the next two articles we will explore the WebSphere Portal features that support composite applications in more detail. The term composite application suggests that there is a class of application whose fundamental co... (more)

What's New in WebSphere Portal V5.1.0.1?

The first thing that you said to yourself when you saw the title of this article is, “Why am I reading an article about a point release? A fixpack update point release usually provides just technical fixes. Who cares?” Surprise! WebSphere Portal 5.1.0.1 provides a lot of new and updated capabilities originally intended for the WebSphere Portal 5.1 release, as well as the typical set of tweaks and fixes to some product components. It’s a full release (it’s not really a full release…) with new functionality, platform support, and, yes, bug fixes. It con... (more)

Support of Composite Applications in WebSphere Portal

In the first of our three-part series, published in November 2004, we introduced the composite application model and how WebSphere Portal supports it. Composite applications are a class of application whose fundamental construction model is the composition of parts or components. They are formed by choosing components or services from a catalog or palette and interconnecting the components to create the behavior desired. The foundation of the composition model is the portal infrastructure, which provides access to user profile information and remote content, the ability to commu... (more)