by webadmin | May 17, 2012 | JAVA, SOA, WebLogic
In order to stay competitively relevant in today’s dynamic business environment, businesses are moving to online platforms. This way they are able to expand their customer base and enhance their strategic competitiveness. However, to do so they need a reliable e-commerce platform on which to build their online business applications from. Oracle’s Java WebLogic server is one such platform. Not only does it allow for quick and simple application development, but it also provides a platform from which Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can be created. The term Java was coined by Sun Microsystems (now merged with the Oracle corporation) to refer to a series of software programs that are used to develop applications. The beauty of using Java is that it can be applied across a variety of platforms ranging from supercomputer platforms, enterprise platforms as well as low-end mobile device platforms. The simple yet dynamic nature of Java along with its cross platform environment is what makes it popular with application developers. With the advent of world-wide use of the internet, the Java platform was re-designed to fit in with the world-wide web. Since then it has been the key element in web IT development. This web based Java application server is what is commonly referred to as WebLogic server. The Java WebLogic server has been the key link between back end systems and the internet. Before WebLogic server was created, the reality of businesses connecting with their clients over the internet was bleak. This was because most other web servers were and still are incapable of handling non-HTTP business logic requests. Web logic server...
by webadmin | Feb 8, 2012 | architecture, SOA
SOA or in full, Service Oriented Architecture is a technology that shares resources on a network within the workplace, to be accessed when needed by the users. Unlike the other system architectures, SOA is more flexible and in that the resources that are being shared are connected and can be made use of at the same time. It is the best choice for a network of especially great numbers, in that there many users on the network. Also if there are users who will connect remotely, it is a good approach to use spread the resources. By using SOA, each of the services provided will make use of the software system individually, while making use of the same system. As much as it sounds wasteful and over bearing on the system, it is not. Given that the services on the SOA are making use of the system that they are on, they are only producing different outcomes to that of each user; however it is the same service or action. An example of SOA is the use of ATMs (Automated Teller Machines). The concept is that the individual (remote) users can each have access to the banking services, in a kind of unique way to them. Now when we apply the SOA approach, the users will make the use of the “Retrieve balance” on the system, however, the results will be the balance of their own bank accounts. This is the same if a company makes an internet based request. In the end the same system is being made us of, because in the end it is the same...
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