Doug Wilson is an IBM distinguished engineer and chief technology officer for the Lotus Product Division of IBM's Software Group. Prior to this he was responsible for architectural strategy for Domino and WebSphere integration, WebSphere Portal Server and WebSphere content manager, and WebSphere Personalization. He invented and managed the design and development of Lotus InfoBus technology, a data exchange technology for Java components that has been accepted for inclusion in JavaSoft's Java Developer's Kit as a Java standard. Doug holds a degree from M.I.T.'s Department of Mechanical Engineering.
What are composite applications and how do they help me? In this three-part
series we will introduce the concepts behind a new class of applications
called composite applications and explain their need and structure. In this
article, we will present a high-level overview of composite applications, the
benefit they provide, and how WebSphere Portal supports them. In the next two
articles we will explore the WebSphere Portal features that support composite
applications in more detail.
The term composite application suggests that there is a class of application
whose fundamental construction model is the composition of parts or
components. These applications are formed by choosing components from a
catalog or palette, placing those components on some design surface, and
i... (more)
In the first article of our three part series, we introduced you to the
composite application model and how WebSphere Portal supports it. A composite
application is a class of application whose fundamental construction model is
the composition of parts or components. It is formed by choosing components
from a catalog or palette, placing those components on some design surface,
and interc... (more)
In the first of our three-part series, published in November 2004, we
introduced the composite application model and how WebSphere Portal supports
it. Composite applications are a class of application whose fundamental
construction model is the composition of parts or components. They are formed
by choosing components or services from a catalog or palette and
interconnecting the componen... (more)
by MIchael T. Ferro & Douglass J. Wilson
Portal has come to mean different things in different situations. Many
enterprises approach a portal as a Web site enabling a partitioning of the
displayable real estate into separate areas, each area having its associated
content personalized to the needs and desires of the site visitor.
The content for the discrete areas is dynamically assembled in... (more)
Doug Wilson is an IBM distinguished engineer and chief technology officer for the Lotus Product Division of IBM's Software Group. Prior to this he was responsible for architectural strategy for Domino and WebSphere integration, WebSphere Portal Server and WebSphere content manager, and WebSphere Personalization. He invented and managed the design and development of Lotus InfoBus technology, a data exchange technology for Java components that has been accepted for inclusion in JavaSoft's Java Developer's Kit as a Java standard. Doug holds a degree from M.I.T.'s Department of Mechanical Engineering.
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