Matt Rothera

The high interest in business visibility, flexibility, and knowledge management has made portal technology a popular choice for monitoring, searching, and managing business activity across the enterprise. BEA WebLogic Platform provides an attractive platform for building highly dynamic enterprise portals that can aggregate, organize, and present information from multiple back-end systems. Whether the portal is implemented with the feature-rich environment of WebLogic Portal Server, or through an MVC framework such as "Jakarta Struts", the newest release of BEA's 8.1 platform provides many new features that create a powerful portal environment. However, as enterprise portals begin to aggregate ever-increasing numbers of services across disparate technology domains, geographic boundaries, and even organizational boundaries, portal architects will need to find ways to m... (more)

Enterprise Portal Integration and the Enterprise Service Bus Part 2

Enterprise portals have become the most popular method of offering a common user interface to a suite of services across the enterprise. Offering business visibility, flexibility, and knowledge management, portals promise users the ability to monitor, search, and manage business activity across the enterprise. However, as portals mature from basic offerings to more complex sets of services, they will require a robust, agile, and pervasive integration network to provide critical business services to portal users in real time. The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) not only provides the... (more)