Anjali Anagol-Subbarao

Application versioning has always been a challenge for the developer community. With the introduction of Web services, this issue becomes even more difficult as developers are dealing with a more distributed set of components that aren't necessarily under their control. A robust versioning strategy is needed to support multiple versions of Web services in development. This can allow for upgrades and improvements to be made to a Web service, while continuously supporting previously released versions. The right versioning strategy can maximize code reuse and provide a more manageable approach to the naming, deployment, and maintenance of your Web services. The issue of versioning is a complicated one, and this article does not attempt to answer every question surrounding ... (more)

Create a Real-World Business Process Model, Part 4

In the first article in this series (Vol. 3, issue 6), I gave you an overview of business process management (BPM) and covered the specifications in this area. I described the order change example and the steps needed to create the business process in WebLogic Integration (WLI). In the second article I looked at how to create a process application (orderChange). In this application I cre... (more)

Using the WebLogic Platform to Create a Real-World Business Process Model for Order Management Part 5

In the first article I gave an overview of BPM and covered the specifications in this area. I described the order change example and the steps needed to create the business process in WLI. In the second article we saw how to create a process application, specifically how to create the application orderChange. In this application I created a new process called orderChange.jpd. To start th... (more)

SSA - HP's Framework For Creating Enterprise SOA Web Services

The potential and promise of service-oriented architecture (SOA) can be realized by designing, developing, and deploying well-designed, flexible, extensible, and scalable Web services, Web applications, and portlets. Reusable enterprise class Web services encapsulate business logic and drive business processes. A variety of clients consume these Web services without worrying about specifi... (more)

A Real-World Business Process Model Part 2

In my first article (WLDJ, Vol. 3, issue 6), I provided an overview of BPM specifications in this area. I described the order change example and the steps needed to create the business process in WebLogic Integration. In this article, you will see how to create a process application. We can call this application orderChange. In this application we need to create a new process called order... (more)