John Graves has been with BEA for more than seven years and is currently working as an internal trainer for Education Services specializing in WebLogic Portal. He spent the first five years of his time with BEA in the Advanced Service Group doing full life-cycle project work.
One of the nice features of the WebLogic Portal 8.1 release is a fairly
extensive content management system. It does not, nor was it ever intended
to, compete with the large content management vendors on the market today,
but for many applications it works quite well. There are some problems
however with using the content management system. This article will address
several of them and provide details of a dev2dev tool that will help get
around them.
Problem #1: Migration
When content is created outside of a production system, there is no easy way
of moving this content into production. In many cases production systems have
very strict rules on changing content and ad hoc changes are not allowed,
therefore migration is needed.
Problem #2: Backup/Restore
If the default r... (more)
BEA WebLogic Workshop is fabulous at hiding many of the complexities of a
J2EE application. This can be a problem when things don't behave this way you
might expect. Tools are great, but sometimes do things "for us" that we
really don't want.
Understanding what the tool is doing is key to knowing when a problem might
arise. In this article I'll cover the details of how WebLogic Integratio... (more)
John Graves has been with BEA for more than seven years and is currently working as an internal trainer for Education Services specializing in WebLogic Portal. He spent the first five years of his time with BEA in the Advanced Service Group doing full life-cycle project work.
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