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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)

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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)