Laurence Moroney

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. However, as the complexity of typical systems continues to increase, finding the strategy to optimize bang for the buck grows exponentially in difficulty. Enter an exploding area of applications that once may have been deemed a luxury, but is now considered paramount for the successful operation of your enterprise. In this space NetIQ brings to the table the amazingly sophisticated and intricate AppManager Suite. It is a complex tool, but it miraculously l... (more)

SOA Web Services And Best Practices For .NET WebSphere Interoperability

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. Experience shows that it's a challenge getting applications to run across a diverse array of software and hardware platforms with acceptable availability, performance, scalability, and security. As such, several methodologies and standards of integration or interoperability have evolved, the most common being Web Services, which despite their powe... (more)

Silverlight Races To Victory in Singapore's 2008 Formula 1 Grand Prix

Laurence Moroney's Blog Here's another Silverlight app that I've been bursting to share with y'all. It's from the promotion site for the 2008 Formula 1 Grand Prix being hosted in Singapore and sponsored by SingTel. It's a great and innovative use of Video. They are running a competition called the 'heart race' where 20 models will get your heart racing, but can you get theirs to race? The 20 models are laid out on screen as you can see above, and they are just doing their thing, hanging out, smiling, hoping that they catch your attention (these are video loops, the screen grab do... (more)

Integration: Not Just Aggregation

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. In an ideal world, this would be simple. However, we don't live in an ideal world, so there are a number of problems. The first problem is that we often want to take data from one ser... (more)

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

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. When WebLogic workshop was first conceived and presented to the public, it was do... (more)