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Web Logic Integration Troubles On
first glimpse the web logic integration tool seems very
attractive. It lets you develop and deploy web services pretty
fast and provides built in controls to hook to external
systems through JMS, Databases. It is pretty good for Rapid
Application Development (RAD) and prototyping.
However the trouble starts once
you sit down to do some heavy lifting. There are several
quirks in the web logic work shop tool. The IDE freezes every
so often. Even with a two gigabyte machine the tool is
crawling slow.
The web logic integration tool
does not lend itself to object reuse. The so called
"Java Process Definitions" (JPD) are not
object oriented. The do not have a notion of a base and
derived objects
The IDE tries
to synch up the classes as you edit. Some times you have to
wait several minutes for the IDE to respond after
each key stroke.
Since the tool does not
support JPD inheritance, each JPD tends to bloated. It takes
inordinate amount of man power to support them. This model
does not scale from an IT factory sizing perspective.
IBM's web sphere got
ahead in the game by coming up with an eclipse based IDE
that integrates well with their suite of software development
tools.
It is time for BEA to
revamp its WLI workshop.
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