Latest News from Scott Dietzen

Web 2.0: XML & Java - Standard Integration

Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:00:00 EDT

Standards can drive revolutionary changes in technology: consider the impact that SQL has had on the database market, or consider that the World Wide Web was launched by the combination of HTML, HTTP, URL, and SSL. Our belief is that protocol standards (XML, Web services) and programming standards (Java and the .NET alternatives, XML Query, etc.) will have a similarly profound impact on integration.

Open Source, Java, and WebLogic

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 00:00:00 EST

BEA believes that both open-source projects and commercial Java platform products like WebLogic are crucial to the health of the Java ecosystem. That's why WebLogic runs on top of, incorporates, contributes to, and creates open-source technologies. Even open-source projects that provide functionality similar to WebLogic tend to be best used in a different part of the Java ecosystem than the one WebLogic occupies.

.NET & J2EE

Tue, 30 Jul 2002 00:00:00 EDT

Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) has achieved critical mass as a platform for developing Web applications. Microsoft's .NET is also a strong contender in the Web world. Today both J2EE and .NET are evolving (via XML, Web services, etc.) from development-only platforms into development and integration platforms - a change that will transform enterprise application integration (EAI) and business-to-business integration (B2B) as we know them today.

Standards-Based Integration: The Impact of Web Services & J2EE

Tue, 26 Mar 2002 00:00:00 EST

Standards can redefine a marketplace consider the impact that SQL had on the relational database market. Standards can also create new markets without HTML and HTTP, there would be no World Wide Web. My thesis here is that Web services and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) will have a similarly dramatic impact on application integration.

What will determine whether one prevails...or ensure that they can co-exist?

Fri, 01 Feb 2002 00:00:00 EST

Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) has not yet achieved critical mass as a Web application platform. Today, for example, over 10,000 customers are using BEA WebLogic, the J2EE application server market leader. However, it's a safe bet that J2EE will eventually reach critical mass.

What Is a Java Application Server

Mon, 01 Dec 1997 00:00:00 EST

Application servers are not new. Many information systems, from mainframe transaction processing environments like CICS to the stored procedures of a DBMS, provide for the server-side execution of business processes. Running business logic on a server can improve security, managability, performance and reusability. With the explosive growth of intranets and the Internet, developers need a rich, flexible server to host their business applications---a server that complements the content from databases and Web servers.