This IBM Redbook will help you plan and execute the migration of J2EE 1.3 applications developed for BEA WebLogic Server 8.1, JBoss 3.2.7 and Apache Tomcat 5.5.9, so that they will run on WebSphere Application Server V6. This redbook provides detailed information to help you plan migrations, best practices for developing portable applications as well as migration working examples for each of the platforms from which we migrated. It is not our intention to provide a feature-by-feature comparison of BEA WebLogic Server 8.1, JBoss 3.2.7 and Apache Tomcat 5.5.9 versus WebSphere Application Server V6, nor to argue the relative merits of the products, but to produce practical technical advice for developers who have to migrate applications from these vendors to WebSphere Application Server V6.

IBM and Microsoft are strong supporters of the Web Services Interoperability Organization's (WS-I) efforts to make building solutions using software from different suppliers a reality. In this IBM Redbook, we take a practical look at building a solution with IBM WebSphere and Microsoft .Net components using Web services that are compliant with the WS-I organization's Basic Profile. This redbook is aimed at customers who want to know how far the reality of Web services has caught up with the hype; it is for customers who want a redbook to help them decide whether Web services are right for them now. The book provides an introduction to SOAP, WSDL and the rest of the Web services concepts. It provides a review of the many Web service specifications. Which ones are most important to building a practical solution? We use a scenario based on work IBM has been doing with the insurance industry to demonstrate how to design a service-based solution and then implement it using the latest programming tools from IBM and Microsoft. Based on our experience, we identify areas where extra effort up front will be rewarded with an easier implementation.

This IBM Redbook describes the new JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology for building Web applications and the WebSphere Studio Application Developer tools supporting it. JSF is based on the Java Specification Request (JSR) 127, of which the first release was finalized in March, 2004. The goal of JSF technology is to provide a complete framework to develop and deploy Web applications easily and rapidly. The framework provides solutions for a variety of tasks found in Web application development, such as user interface design, application navigation and flow, session and object management, validation and error feedback, internationalization, and container portability. This redbook covers all of the core features of JSF Web development and the tools that are available in WebSphere Studio Application Developer 5.1.2 to design, develop, deploy, and test JSF Web applications. Service Data Objects (SDO) is a data programming architecture and API for the Java platform that unifies data programming across data source types, provides robust support for common application patterns, and enables applications, tools, and frameworks to more easily query, view, bind, update, and introspect data.

This IBM Redbook discusses various options for scaling applications based on IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V5.1. It explores how a basic WebSphere configuration can be extended to provide more computing power by better exploiting the power of each machine and by using multiple machines. It examines a number of techniques: - Using the IBM WebSphere Edge Components' Load Balancer to distribute load among multiple Web servers. - Using the WebSphere Web server plug-in to distribute the load from one Web server to multiple application servers in a server cluster. - Using the WebSphere EJB workload management facility to distribute load at the EJB level. - Using dynamic caching techniques to improve the performance of a Web site. - Using clustering solutions such as HACMP to meet the high availability needs of critical applications. - Using application development best practices to develop a scalable application. - Using the performance tuning options available with WebSphere to adjust the application server configuration to the needs of your application. This book provides step-by-step instructions for implementing a sample, multiple-machine environment. We use this environment to illustrate most of the IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V5.1 workload management and scalability features. The previous edition: "WebSphere V5.0 Performance, Scalability, and High Availability Handbook, SG24-6198-00" can still be found online at: <A HREF="ftp://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG246

In 1999, Dr Willy Chiu, noticing the emergence of many large and complex customer Web sites, and observing how they often failed to deliver the expected robustness and customer satisfaction, set up a new team within IBM called the High-Volume Web Sites (HVWS) team. This team was chartered to work with customers and IBM internal teams involved in the creation and deployment of really large Web sites, and in particular those supporting e-business applications used by customers over the Internet -- typical business to customer (B2C) applications but large and complex ones. The team would learn from this experience and document proven best practices so that customers could learn how to make high-volume Web sites that worked well, and so that IBM developers could improve their products to better support high- volume sites. The team has locations in California, New York, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. On December 9, 2003 IBM announced that it has chosen Silicon Valley as the location for its first "e-business on demand Center of Competency" -- which will amass heavy technology resources and expertise to help companies advance their Internet initiatives. The Center of Competency in IBM's Silicon Valley Lab will be the first of several to open in the next year as part of IBM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Samuel J. Palmisano's $10 billion commitment for research, acquisitions, marketing and training centers devoted to e-business on demand. This is IBM's one-year-old initiative to help compa

This IBM Redbook describes the new concept of Web services from various perspectives. It presents the major building blocks Web services rely on. Here, well-defined standards and new concepts are presented and discussed. Whereas these concepts are described vendor-independent, this book also presents IBM's view and illustrates with suitable demonstration applications how Web services can be implemented using IBM's product portfolio, especially WebSphere Application Server Version 5.1 and WebSphere Studio Application Developer Version 5.1.1. This book is a major update to the IBM Redbook Web Services Wizardry with WebSphere Studio Application Developer, SG24-6292, and to WebSphere Version 5 Web Services Handbook, SG24-6891-00. This book is structured in two parts: - Part 1 presents the underlying concepts for the use of Web services: It presents the basic programming model, well-known concepts in an updated way, and new concepts that go beyond the scope of the earlier books. - Part 2 shows how Web services can be implemented using the latest IBM tools. Here we introduce a sample application that is demonstrated in various different ways.

This IBM Redbook helps you design, develop and implement portlet applications using the IBM WebSphere Studio Site Developer and the Portal Toolkit V5. The information provided in this redbook targets Business-to-Employee (B2E) enterprise applications, but most of the scenarios presented apply to Business-to-Consumer (B2C) applications as well. In this redbook, you will find step-by-step examples and scenarios showing ways to integrate your enterprise applications into an IBM WebSphere Portal environment using the WebSphere Portal APIs provided by the Portal Toolkit to develop portlets as well as extend your portlet capabilities to use other advanced functions such as cooperative portlets, national language support, action events, portlet messaging, Credential Vault, Web Services and portlet debugging capabilities. Elements of the portlet API are described and sample code is provided. The scenarios included in this redbook can be used to learn about portlet programming and as a basis to develop your own portlet applications. You will also find numerous scenarios describing recommended ways to develop portlets and portlet applications using the APIs provided by the IBM WebSphere Portal Toolkit. The sample scenarios in this redbook have been developed using the WebSphere Studio Site Developer but they can also be developed using the WebShere Studio Application Developer. A basic knowledge of Java technologies such as servlets, JavaBeans, EJBs, JavaServer Pages (JSPs), as well as XML applications and the terminolog

The Patterns for e-business are a group of proven, reusable assets that can speed the process of developing applications. The Portal composite pattern combines Business and Integration patterns to help implement a portal solution. This IBM Redbook provides a technical scenario and guidelines for the Portal composite pattern. It shows how the Composite pattern works and documents the tasks required to build a technical scenario of it. Part 1 of the redbook guides you through the process of choosing the Business and Integration patterns of the Composite pattern and then drill down to the Application and Runtime pattern and Product mapping to deliver the desired functionality of the Portal composite pattern. Part 2 provides a set of guidelines for building your portal application and includes a discussion of application design, application development and systems management. Part 3 demonstrates how to implement a portal solution via a technical scenario. This technical scenario uses the WebSphere Portal Extend offering.

This IBM Redbook provides detailed information on how to develop J2EE-compliant Web applications for WebSphere Application Server Version 5 using WebSphere Studio Application Developer Version 5.1 as an integrated development environment. Also covered are a variety of application development tools from IBM and Open Source. The target audience for this book includes the entire application development team, especially architects and developers. It also includes developers with experience of earlier versions of the WebSphere products, who are looking to migrate to Version 5. This book is organized in four main parts: - Introduction—covering the J2EE programming model, the development process, and software configuration management - Requirements, analysis, architecture, and design—covering the early phases of a project, using Rational XDE - Implementation—covering the coding of business logic, presentation, and Web services, using Application Developer - Debugging, unit testing, deployment, and measurements—covering the test and production phases of a project, using Application Developer, Application Server, and Open Source tools Throughout the book, we refer to PiggyBank, a sample J2EE application we create step-by-step to illustrate the use of the tools, concepts, and principles of the application development process.

This IBM Redbook is a programming guide for the application development tool, WebSphere Studio Application Developer V5. This tool is not only intended for the Java developer, but also for the Web designer who creates Web pages. The WebSphere Studio Application Developer basic tooling and team environment is presented along with the development and deployment of Web applications. WebSphere Studio Application Developer provides integrated development tools for all e-business development roles, including Web developers, Java developers, business analysts, architects, and enterprise programmers. The customizable, targeted, role-based approach of WebSphere Studio Application Developer will be characteristic of all new products built on the WebSphere Studio Workbench. It is well integrated with WebSphere Application Server and provides built-in server test environments that can be used for testing and profiling Web applications. This redbook consists of six parts: - Introducing WebSphere Studio - Developing applications - Testing and debugging applications - Deploying and profiling applications - Team programming - Appendixes and additional material