Kuassi Mensah

"Si tu ne vas pas à Lagardère, Lagardère ira à toi!" "Le Bossu", Alexandre Dumas On guard! What do Web services have to do with a swordsman? Well, paraphrasing Alexandre Dumas's character, "if you don't go to Web services, Web services will come to you." Web services are pervading every layer of enterprise computing, from packaged e-business applications (e.g., ERP, CRM) to middle-tier (e.g., J2EE, .NET) and database infrastructure. Web services promise easy access to remote content and application functionality using industry-standard mechanisms, without any dependency on the provider's platform, the location, the service implementation, or the data format. The proliferation of structured and unstructured data and data logic in databases, the increasing momentum of XML ... (more)

Connecting the Java World to Grid-Enabled Databases

Grid computing is not necessarily a new concept; however, its adoption within the enterprise has given birth to a new concept called enterprise grid computing, which is being embraced by the entire IT industry. Enterprise grid computing aims to consolidate IT resources - including both infrastructure software and applications - and optimize their usage, cutting costs substantially along ... (more)

Enterprise Java

The Oracle Internet Platform embeds the Oracle8i JVM within the Oracle8i database and Oracle Internet Application Server (iAS) as the enterprise Java engine for Oracle. This article explains Oracle8i JVM's base architecture, its support for J2EE APIs and its latest performance and architecture enhancements. E-Business Platform Base Architecture The base architecture, the foundation on whi... (more)