Portals enable users, employees, customers, and suppliers to expand beyond
their traditional boundaries by providing a single common interface to access
globally dispersed content and applications. Most important, portals also
allow users to communicate with other enterprise applications, content
factories, and processes. Dynamic portal capabilities also provide
personalization that enables users to create tailored views of information or
receive customized content. In addition to personalization capabilities,
portals allow users to publish, share, and subscribe to various documents in
an enterprise, regardless of original format.
Portal technologies, such as WebSphere Portal, support important back-end
operations that provide the flexibility, scalability, and security r... (more)
Evolving J2EE specifications continue to provide developers and architects
with added performance muscle and flexibility for building and optimizing
enterprise applications. J2EE advances are both a boon and a challenge as
they can provide additional capabilities while also requiring refined
development skills. J2EE applications incorporate complex distributed logic
and, hence, demand ca... (more)
As the gap increases between technology innovation and the constricted
capabilities of inherited legacy systems, many organizations are evaluating
the costs and benefits of migrating their infrastructures and enterprise
applications to new generations of Web-based infrastructure technologies.
Expanded abilities to accelerate the introduction of new services and reduce
administrative over... (more)
Thina Natarajan is a principal solution architect for the Application Infrastructure Management (AIM) group at Candle Corp. Natarajan optimizes IT architecture, development, and deployment phases for global clients. He has recently been focusing on J2EE performance tuning best practices.
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