In the history of XML to date, its role in application development has been
mostly on the edge - it has been used primarily as the format for
applications to communicate with each other, as a way to serialize data or
configuration information, or for some other use at the "front door" of the
application. The internal data model and processing that made applications
run were entirely driven by objects (Java, C#, or what have you), relational
database schema, and the like. Developers used the same approach to data
modeling they always had and leveraged XML on the outside of their
applications.
As XML has become more mainstream, and there is much more XML data floating
around the enterprise, new technologies have been developed to better process
and manipulate XML inside applications. As a result, the role and location of
XML use in applications is shifting. We are st... (more)
The initial focus of Weblogic Workshop was on Web services applications, but
the core mission of the Workshop team has always been to deliver
unprecedented productivity building enterprise-class applications. Many of
the innovations introduced in the first version, such as visual designers,
controls to simplify access to resources, and declarative annotations in Java
code, apply to many applications, not just Web services.
In this new release of Workshop, BEA has dramatically expanded the kinds of
applications you can build within the Workshop environment, and significantly
enha... (more)
While Web services possess the potential to completely change how
applications and organizations are integrated, capitalizing on this
innovative technology hasn't been easy. To truly leverage the potential of
Web services, you need both an architecture that can handle enterprise
integration challenges and a framework that enables developers possessed of
varying skillsets to work together. BEA Systems is launching a new product
designed to solve these problems - "Cajun". Cajun makes it incredibly simple
for application developers to build sophisticated Web services.
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Carl Sjogreen is senior product manager for BEA WebLogic Workshop, an integrated development framework that makes it easy for all developers – not just J2EE experts – to build enterprise class web services on the WebLogic platform. Carl has been involved with XML, Web services, and developer tools since 1998, when he founded Transformis, developers of the award-winning Stylus Studio IDE.
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