IBM Systems Journal articles from July 2004

IBM Systems Journal archives from July 2004

Introduction.
July 1, 2004... Transaction processing has been at the heart of information technology since the 1950s when the first large online reservation systems went into operation. Because the operating systems and programming languages of the day did little to...

Preface.
July 1, 2004... Success in the design and deployment of e-business on demand * systems depends on the development of dynamic applications that adapt to the changing business environment and servers that can run those applications with high performance and...

WebSphere Application Server: a foundation for on demand computing.
July 1, 2004... There is little doubt about the importance of e-business on demand *. (1) The information technology industry has come to a juncture with the next major step being one toward greater productivity--in terms of improving both the productivity...

WebSphere Business Integration: an architectural overview.
July 1, 2004... To become flexible, efficient and responsive, businesses are trying to address their end-to-end integration problems. For example, a solution that integrates customer relationship, financial, logistics, and procurement systems can enable a...

Enabling distributed enterprise integration with WebSphere and DB2 Information Integrator.
July 1, 2004... Industry analysts project that corporate spending for enterprise business integration will represent a $5.6 billion industry by 2006. (1) These projections are driven by the large numbers of incompatible systems, software applications,...

Business process choreography in WebSphere: combining the power of BPEL and J2EE.
July 1, 2004... Web services based on the service-oriented architecture framework serve as the foundation for modern distributed, heterogeneous applications by providing a virtual component model. (1) Not only can new components be written as Web services,...

On demand Web-client technologies.
July 1, 2004... The World Wide Web has created an incredible growth environment by making business applications easy to deploy, manage, and access. (1) On the basis of open standards and a ubiquitous browser, enterprises have been able to interface their...

WebSphere connector architecture evolution.
July 1, 2004... Applications need access to many types of resources. A resource may be located on the same machine as the application or on a remote machine and may have no restrictions on its access or a multitude of restrictions. Access to a resource...

Designing WebSphere Application Server for performance: an evolutionary approach.
July 1, 2004... WebSphere Application Server is IBM's Java-based Web application server that supports the deployment and management of Web applications, ranging from simple Web sites to powerful e-business solutions. (1) WebSphere Application Server...

WebSphere Dynamic Cache: improving J2EE application performance.
July 1, 2004... Modern Web applications carry a heavy burden: they are required to deliver high performance and be full featured. They must feature personalization for individual users, assemble information from disparate and volatile data sources, and...

Eclipse: a platform for integrating development tools.
July 1, 2004... Customers developing applications need a variety of different tools from various tool vendors to support the full software development life cycle. Developers can be more productive and effective if these tools work well together. Integrated...

WebSphere Studio overview.
July 1, 2004... Modern n-tiered applications integrate function that is developed by using many different technologies. J2EE ** technologies, such as JavaServer Pages ** (JSP **), servlets, Java ** Database Connectivity (JDBC **) database access, and...

WebSphere Portal: unified user access to content, applications and services.
July 1, 2004... A Web portal, or simply a portal, is a Web site that offers a broad array of resources and services typically targeted towards specific categories of user populations. Portals are rapidly gaining popularity and widespread adoption because...

Issues in the development of transactional Web applications.
July 1, 2004... The advent of the Internet revolution has given rise to a new form of enterprise applications known as enterprise Web applications. The main feature that differentiates enterprise Web applications from their predecessors is the ability to...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
July 1, 2004... In the paper "z/OS support for the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server" by A. S. Meritt, J. A. Staubi, K. M. Trowell, G. Whistance, and H. M. Yudenfriend, which appeared in the IBM Systems Journal Vol. 42, No. 2, pages 280 through 301,...