Distancing itself ever further from arch-rival Microsoft, whose CEO Bill Gates tried during his keynote at CES 2005 to liken open source software development to a kind of modern-day communism, IBM will today be giving away rights - so it is announcing - to 500 of its software patents.

"The landscape just changed....Thank you, IBM. Thank you," writes Groklaw's editor-in-chief Pamela Jones, heralding the announcement yesterday that IBM will today announce that it's making 500 of its software patents freely available to anyone working on open-source projects like Linux. - Read More

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This article describes what compensation is and how to model it in several process scenarios using WebSphere® Studio Application Developer Integration Edition. This information can help a business process modeler introduce compensation into its processes.

The Process Choreographer component of WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation V5.1 (hereafter referred to as Server Foundation) provides the ability to choreograph intra-enterprise and inter-enterprise services using business processes, which can involve both human and IT resources. Process Choreographer supports running Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) processes in a J2EE™ environment, and lets you combine business process technology with other services that are offered by J2EE architecture and available in Server Foundation. - Read More

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- Overview of WebSphere Business Integrator (WBI) Technologies

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WebSphere Portal, the leading enterprise portal package on the market, is about to ship a major new release designed to take integration and flexibility deeper and further than ever before. WebSphere Portal lets programmers focus on developing the business functionality by managing the look and feel, personalization, content management, and security components.

WebSphere Portal has always been about integration. It lets users integrate different applications from disparate locations and enables them to seamlessly exchange information. Much of the functionality that is required for the Web experience does not have to be programmed but can be found in the portal library ­ a collection of "shrink wrap packaged" portlets or portal applications. Beyond just combining the portlets into a unified presentation, WebSphere Portal allows you to personalize the user experience based on the user's role and preferences as well as on the client device the user is accessing the site with. - Read More

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- WebSphere Portal Server 5.X Administration

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This 632-page paper describes the technical details of WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation, and the details of using WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition for application development. It provides valuable information for system administrators, developers and architects about the products covered. The handbook specifically focuses on WebSphere Process Choreographer and on solutions using it.

Part 1, "Architecting a WebSphere Enterprise solution," has high-level details about WebSphere solutions using WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation.

Part 2, "Setup the environment," provides step-by-step details for installing the runtime and development environments.

Part 3, "Implementing WebSphere Enterprise solutions," provides details about the J2EE programming model extensions and functions in WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation. You'll find out how to design, develop, assemble, deploy and administer applications in the WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation environment.

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- WebSphere Business Integration (WBI) Server Foundation

- Overview of WebSphere Business Integrator (WBI) Technologies

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Developers using Java on clients or in small projects may not believe that there is a fundamental problem with Java's robustness. People working with huge applications and application servers written in Java know about the problem but may doubt that it's possible to build something like an unbreakable Java architecture.

Some may even remember the White Star Line promising that their ocean liner Titanic was unsinkable; an iceberg in the North Atlantic proved them wrong and demonstrated that there is no such thing as an unsinkable ship. Is it really possible to build a Java application server that never goes down? - Read More

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