Articles by Laurence Moroney

Getting Started with Silverlight: Zero to Hero

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:00:00 EST

Lots of people have been asking about how to get started with Silverlight, and what they need to do to get up and running with Silverlight quickly. Inspired by blog posts such as Jesse Liberty's, I'm going to take this from first principles, with no prior knowledge assumed. So let's get started with the first and most simple application - a 'Hello World' in Silverlight. You need no special tools for this. Just notepad will do...

Jumpstart SOA

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:15:00 EST

The struggle to integrate business assets across the .NET - J2EE technology divide is legendary. So it should come as no surprise that the emergence of portal applications as an enabler of Service Oriented Architecture is forcing enterprises to revisit interoperability challenges in a user-centric environment.

J2EE/.NET Interoperability

Sat, 13 May 2006 12:00:00 EDT

Due to the benefits of each, J2EE and .NET have penetrated most markets and companies to the point where 95% of medium and large-scale enterprises support both .NET and J2EE, and 30% or more of new application development will include both by 2009, according to a study published by Gartner. Data centers of these companies rarely work in 'silo' mode where J2EE and .NET work independently and don't need to interoperate with each other, but instead form a mesh of applications in what is termed a 'mixed-mode' deployment. These deployments have driven the emergence of standards such as Web Services to ease their integration.

Interop Update: A Fast Track to Rehost Your .NET Applications

Tue, 02 May 2006 10:30:00 EDT

You already know the sheer productivity advantages of developing applications that run on the .NET framework using the Visual Studio.NET IDE, and have likely developed and deployed one or more of these in the years since they became generally available. But did you know that you can double your market reach for .NET Web and server applications by rehosting them, without major modifications, to run on Java-enabled platforms such as WebSphere running on Linux? According to Forrester Research, J2EE is used by 56 percent of financial services and insurance companies, and by 44 percent of the overall market.

SOA Web Services And Best Practices For .NET WebSphere Interoperability

Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:15:00 EST

Mixed-mode deployments where the data center has a mixture of different technology platforms, hardware, and software and where those platforms interoperate together to deliver software applications is the norm rather than an exception.

Running ASP.NET Applications on WebLogic Easier Than You May Think!

Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:00:00 EDT

When WLDJ wanted someone to take a First Look at Visual MainWin for J2EE, we turned to interoperability expert Laurence Moroney - coauthor of a forthcoming book on Web services security and a senior architect in a major financial services house in New York City. In the course of assessing the product, Laurence in fact became more and more involved - in the end, on a staff basis - with the company behind it, Mainsoft. So this First Look should be read with that basic journalistic disclosure in mind.

Best Practices in Migrating from .NET to Linux

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:00:00 EDT

For many businesses, the Web storefront is the only point of contact for customers, and for others it's a major one. As such, it's important that this architecture meets the needs of your business, not just from a technology point of view but from a strategic one. No business likes to have an important asset be vulnerable to the whims of a particular vendor, and this is particularly true of a technology asset. As you probably know in IT there are two broad options that can implement your business needs: the Microsoft family of Windows and .NET products, and the open standards community.

What Brings the Future?

Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:00:00 EST

The novel Dune, by Frank Herbert, a classic in science fiction, is littered with great references and quotes. One such quote is: 'Knowing there's a trap is the first step in evading it.' With this in mind I can't help but think of the future for BEA WebLogic. The trap I refer to is the consolidation of application servers and operating systems to implement application server platforms.

Application Management with NetIQ AppManager Suite

Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:00:00 EST

As budgets are shrinking at the same pace that requirements are growing, there is a squeeze on enterprises to show value for the dollars spent on expensive software and hardware for running applications. It is clear that software such as application servers, while offering more and more features, also costs more and more, and that the accountability factor is fast becoming a priority for information professionals.

Integration: Not Just Aggregation

Tue, 08 Jul 2003 00:00:00 EDT

When talking about enterprise application integration, we tend to think of using Web services technologies such as SOAP and UDDI to virtualize a data model across a large enterprise. The thinking is that with a consistent interface, the data stores of the company can be abstracted behind a Web services layer and reported in XML, which can then be kneaded to the particular needs of your application.