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 I... (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 ... (more)

What's New in WebSphere Portal v5.1?

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)

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 componen... (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 typi... (more)