By Laurence Moroney  Lots of people have been asking about how to get started with Silverlight, and what they need to do to get up and running with Silverlight quickly. Inspired by blog posts such as Jesse Liberty's, I'm going to take this from first principles, with no prior knowledge assumed. So let's ge... Nov. 29, 2007 10:00 PM Reads: 12,824 Replies: 3 |
By Laurence Moroney  The struggle to integrate business assets across the .NET - J2EE technology divide is legendary. So it should come as no surprise that the emergence of portal applications as an enabler of Service Oriented Architecture is forcing enterprises to revisit interoperability challenges in ... Jan. 14, 2007 09:15 AM Reads: 14,821 Replies: 2 |
By Laurence Moroney  Due to the benefits of each, J2EE and .NET have penetrated most markets and companies to the point where 95% of medium and large-scale enterprises support both .NET and J2EE, and 30% or more of new application development will include both by 2009, according to a study published by Gar... May. 13, 2006 12:00 PM Reads: 17,159 |
By Laurence Moroney  You already know the sheer productivity advantages of developing applications that run on the .NET framework using the Visual Studio.NET IDE, and have likely developed and deployed one or more of these in the years since they became generally available. But did you know that you can do... May. 2, 2006 10:30 AM Reads: 17,576 Replies: 2 |
By Laurence Moroney  Mixed-mode deployments where the data center has a mixture of different technology platforms, hardware, and software and where those platforms interoperate together to deliver software applications is the norm rather than an exception. Dec. 24, 2005 02:15 PM Reads: 25,033 Replies: 3 |
By Laurence Moroney  When WLDJ wanted someone to take a First Look at Visual MainWin for J2EE, we turned to interoperability expert Laurence Moroney - coauthor of a forthcoming book on Web services security and a senior architect in a major financial services house in New York City. In the course of assess... Oct. 19, 2005 07:00 PM Reads: 27,198 Replies: 4 |
By Laurence Moroney  For many businesses, the Web storefront is the only point of contact for customers, and for others it's a major one. As such, it's important that this architecture meets the needs of your business, not just from a technology point of view but from a strategic one. No business likes to ... Aug. 12, 2005 03:00 PM Reads: 23,554 |
By Laurence Moroney The novel Dune, by Frank Herbert, a classic in science fiction, is littered with great references and quotes. One such quote is: 'Knowing there's a trap is the first step in evading it.' With this in mind I can't help but think of the future for BEA WebLogic. The trap I refer to is the... Feb. 26, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 13,398 |
By Laurence Moroney As budgets are shrinking at the same pace that requirements are growing, there is a squeeze on enterprises to show value for the dollars spent on expensive software and hardware for running applications. It is clear that software such as application servers, while offering more and mor... Dec. 1, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 14,570 |
By Laurence Moroney When talking about enterprise application integration, we tend to think of using Web services technologies such as SOAP and UDDI to virtualize a data model across a large enterprise. The thinking is that with a consistent interface, the data stores of the company can be abstracted behi... Jul. 8, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 11,479 |