WebLogic and .Net: Building a Web Service
by Heinrich Gantenbein
Once the major software vendors realized that none of them would dominate the enterprise platform market, interoperability with their product became a necessity. See how WebLogic Workshop 8.1 and Microsoft .Net can be used in tandem to boost your business.

Error-Proof Exception Handling
by Shridhar Mysore
Exception handling in JAX-RPC–compliant Web services is fairly simple because the JAX-RPC spec governs such tasks. However, it is good to know some coding nuances for writing different types of clients.

Solve SOA Integration Problems with SAAJ
by Anbarasu Krishnaswamy
SAAJ helps the consumption of services from Java-based applications by offering a standard API to access services. See how it's proving its mettle in the SOA and integration space.

JSR 168 and WSRP: Setting High Standards
by Rachel Greenblatt
JSR 168 and WSRP standards are causing a fundamental shift in the nature of portal deployment. They eliminate portability and interoperability headaches, and move the industry one more step toward a unified, federated portal framework.

Managing Web Services in Production
by Anant Kadiyala
Making Web services available 24x7 is a challenging task. Learn how, by taking management aspects into consideration right from the design phase, you can build a mission-critical enterprise application.

COLUMNS
Beekeeper's Corner
by Garrett Conaty
Through the @Control and @Context annotations, the Beehive control framework provides an elegant IoC implementation that will help you build loosely coupled Java apps.

DEPARTMENTS
Front Burner
by Peter Varhol

Logically Speaking
by Jason Jackson