Kunal Mittal

The fever for new XML specifications for almost anything imaginable has hit the real estate industry. Companies that are actively pursuing some niche in this industry have realized the need to create and adopt standards for communication. As in other industries, however, competing XML standards are emerging, keeping any one standard from reaching a critical mass of adoption and fruition. This article explores the Real Estate Transaction Standard (RETS) for the real estate industry. I'll talk about how some of these standards can leverage Web services technologies such as SOAP and WSDL. I'll begin by taking a look at the landscape and various XML standards in the real estate industry. Industry Landscape Adoption of XML standards will provide a common vocabulary and incre... (more)

Management and Monitoring Using the JRockit JVM

The need for a server-side JVM is evident. The increase in the number of Java applications on the servers, and the exponential rise in the number of clients accessing these Java applications, brings forth the shortcomings in the traditional Java VMs, which are more tuned towards client-side processing. The first question that comes to mind when talking about JRockit is the comparison be... (more)

Workshop and Portal

BEA WebLogic Workshop is the single point of entry for developers to develop J2EE applications on the BEA platform. The WebLogic Workshop Platform Edition includes support for portal development on top of the standard WebLogic Workshop Application Developer Edition. This article introduces you to the various aspects of portal development that are enabled through the WebLogic Workshop tool... (more)

Open Source Technologies

Earlier this year, BEA donated several proprietary technologies to the open source community primarily to increase the adoption of BEA WebLogic Workshop, which is the basic entry point into the WebLogic Platform suite. Although for typical J2EE applications deployed on the WebLogic Server, Workshop serves only as a basic IDE; for development in WebLogic Portal, BEA WebLogic Integration o... (more)

Portal Tips and Tricks

WebLogic Portal 8.1 Service Pack 2 has been out for several months. By the time this article is published, Service Pack 3 may also be out. Having worked on a couple of WebLogic Portal projects with this version, I have come across several small and large issues. This article will provide several tips and tricks to solve these problems, with appropriate code snippets to help Portal develop... (more)