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 I... (more)
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 ... (more)
WebSphere Portal, the leading enterprise portal package on the market, is
about to ship a major new release designed to take integration and
flexibility deeper and further than ever before. WebSphere Portal lets
programmers focus on developing the business functionality by managing the
look and feel, personalization, content management, and security components.
WebSphere Portal has always... (more)
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 componen... (more)
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 typi... (more)