Portal User Interface: Give Your Apps a Facelift
by David Hritz
Any application without a clean, easy-to-use interface is incomplete. The BEA Portal UI Framework allows you to customize a portal in any way you see fit. Learn how to create striking user interfaces without much effort.

Better Behavior Tracking
by Jerason Banes
Tracking how users move throughout your portal application enables you to see which changes improve sales. WebLogic Portal and Formula One e.Report Engine combine to provide a powerful data-tracking solution.

10 Ingredients for Successful SOA
by Anant Kadiyala
Normal software development requires a component- or project-based approach. SOA requires a top-down approach, which mandates re-engineering the ways in which we approach development.

Make Application Integration Easy
by Rag Ramanathan
Traditional application development and integration approaches have not facilitated an agile enterprise IT environment that can support the changing needs of a dynamic organization. SOA changes all that.

COLUMNS
Troubleshooter's Diary
by Roula Korkmaz
Check out these troubleshooting and debugging tips that will help fix your LDAP connection issues in WebLogic Server.

Beekeeper's Corner
by Will Pugh
Many of Java's good ideas are being ported to the open source arena. Project Beehive is one of those.

DEPARTMENTS
Front Burner
by Peter Varhol

Logically Speaking
by Jason Jackson