Bill Roth's Blog @ SOA WORLD MAGAZINE

Bill Roth's Blog

At the end of this week, I will no longer be employed by BEA Systems. It has been a great 4 years working at BEA, and undoubtedly the highlight of my career thus far. I have enjoyed the opportunity to write for the BEA developer community, and to lea

Posted: May. 6, 2008 03:21 PM

* JRockit Mission Control Now On Eclipse! *

JRockit Mission Control is now available via BEA's Eclipse Update Site.

Posted: Mar. 14, 2008 02:22 PM

** Fastest Ever: Workshop 10.2 released **

Workshop 10.2 is available now. Its the fastest and highest quality product we've ever produced.

Posted: Mar. 4, 2008 05:58 PM

BEA World Shanghai, Day 2

Reporting live from the Keynotes at BEA World 2007 Shanghai

Posted: Dec. 12, 2007 10:02 PM

BEA World Shanghai, Day 1

The happenings in Shanghai for BEA World China 2007.

Posted: Dec. 11, 2007 10:20 PM

Semantics at Gilbane

Ruminations on Semantics at the Gilbane Content Management Conference

Posted: Nov. 29, 2007 02:43 PM

We need your help. Is UML important?

Is UML important? Please take a short survey to give us your opinion.

Posted: Nov. 16, 2007 05:58 PM

What Programming Frameworks Are You Using?

It's time again for our semi-annual BEA Workshop Framework survey. Could you help us out by answering a few short questions on what development frameworks you are using? Could you please follow this link and take the survey? One respondent...

Posted: Oct. 24, 2007 07:35 PM

** BEA Workshop Studio NOW WITH FLEX! **

The BEA Workshop bundle with Adobe Flex is now available. (Updated with Example)

Posted: Oct. 8, 2007 03:52 PM

Sun's Conflated Benchmark

File this in the "Just So You Know" category. Sun recently announced a new benchmark from their app server. It is an interesting announcement, but you need to read what they say carefully. First off, the are conflating Glassfish with...

Posted: Sep. 25, 2007 03:56 PM

EDI to XML: A Practical Approach

By Carlo Innocenti

While EDI transactions account for most worldwide commercial activity, XML-based alternatives are be

Why Enterprise Architects Continue to Fall Short with SOA

By David Linthicum

If you read this column and listen to my podcasts, you know that I call SOA what SOA is - an archite

SOA World Editorial: Defining Terms

By Sean Rhody

It seems like not a day goes by lately in which some new story of malfeasance in office doesn't come

Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) Gains Momentum

By David Linthicum

As I've been stating for the past five years: if you want to provide real value to your enterprise,

Testing Process Orchestrations Based on the BPEL Standard

By Mike Pellegrini

Composite applications are made up of discreet services that have been tried and proven reliable, bu

Long-Tail SOA and the Mythology of Re-Use

By Marc Rix

Not all services are created equal. It would be great if implementing SOA were simply a matter of ap

Software AG and T-Mobile Sign SOA Partnership Agreement