Jason Snyder

Testing Web services creates an entirely new set of problems for development and testing teams. JUnits can be created to test parts of the Web service, but do not provide the overall functionality needed to ensure adequate validation, and make updating data values difficult. Ther... (more)

Mercury Interactive's LoadRunner is a leader in the performance-testing market. Its ability to create large volumes of data is legendary, and its ability to monitor the systems being tested provides great value. The J2EE Transaction Breakdown Diagnostics Module, LoadRunner, bring... (more)

Suppose you've developed your suite of applications, standardized to J2EE, and are now awaiting the J2EE benefits for monitoring these applications. You have a consistent series of applications, so adding advanced monitoring capability should be fairly straightforward. Unfortunat... (more)

One of the vital principles of object-oriented programming is inheritance. Although not formally supported by the EJB specification, the need for inheritance in the EJB world has real importance. WebSphere Studio Application Developer supports inheritance of EJBs using a direct ... (more)

The clues were all right there. An application that had been through intense performance testing was getting regular complaints about its online response times. Because it couldn't be reproduced in the lab and the logging only stored exceptions, the lackluster performance was ini... (more)

Complex Business Process Management (BPM) solutions involving workflow creation, enterprise resource access, and real business tasks can quickly become unmanageable. The workflows can grow into giant, hard-to-follow decision trees, the developers have difficulty transforming the ... (more)

Application performance horror stories exist everywhere. Tales of molasses-like response times, high-risk transactions that periodically and mysteriously slow to a crawl, and search engine combinations that paralyze the browser are common enough that interest in application perfo... (more)

This article demonstrates how to create a gateway class for sending JMS messages generically with WebLogic. This is beneficial for any asynchronous messaging effort, and provides a basis for future JMS development. A generic access path for sending JMS messages is provided. We wi... (more)

WebLogic Portal 8.1 Beta is out and builds upon the successful and well received WebLogic Portal 7.0. Portal 7.0 dominated industry reviews last year, winning many "best technology" awards (for example, Best Enterprise Portal Solution in the 17th annual Software & Information Ind... (more)

With every release of the Servlet API new features are added that offer new functionality and provide developers with more flexibility when designing new Web applications. With a changing user base and business requirements, most developers would prefer an easy, cost-effective so... (more)