Discover how to build complex Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications with reusability and componentized design in mind by using ready-made patterns.

The WebLogic Portal provides a highly flexible and customizable security framework. Knowing your options will help you plan the security implementation that is usable, reliable and maintainable.

The design patterns book lists 23 design patterns, but that's just the beginning! Many more patterns exist, including the specification pattern, lazy initialization, object pools, and the utility class pattern.

The performance of your portal has a direct impact on usability, and usability can make or break your portal ROI. Learn design and development approaches that will help prevent and pinpoint pesky portal performance problems.

One of the bigger challenges with using design patterns is knowing when to use one pattern over another. The abstract factory creational pattern looks similar to the builder pattern but is used to help solve a different problem.

Portal success depends on more than just the technical and information architecture (though they are important, too). Here are 10 practices that can help make or break the success of your portal.

Your production code isn't the only place you will find a use for design patterns. The factory method pattern helps you answer a question about how to organize your test classes.

The Microsoft .NET Micro Framework, formerly known as Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT), is a powerful and flexible platform for rapidly creating embedded device firmware with Microsoft Visual Studio. Now is just the right time to explore this new world.

Many developers and software architects question why they should use a portal framework to create their websites. Perhaps a better question is why not use a portal framework to create your website. Read on to learn how a portal framework knits together the architectural elements related to user experience.

Venture into the creation of online mashups and compare different online sites that facilitate mashup creation. In particular, you will learn about Yahoo Pipes, Microsoft's Popfly, Google Mashup Editor, Intel MashMaker, and others. You also will see how to create a working online data feed mashup with Yahoo Pipes.

Knowing multiple ways to create workflows in WebLogic Portal will provide you with the ability to deliver solutions based on requirements, methodologies, and timelines.

SOA is a hot topic, but the task of creating and managing a truly service-oriented architecture can be elusive. Explore how a modeling approach to the creation and management of an enterprise-wide architecture will effectively implement the company's business plans through a comprehensive set of interconnected services.

Discover the basic principles of Application Security and how it relates to various government and industry regulations and standards. Also, learn about internal and external Information Security threats and how to protect systems and applications better.

Portal content presentation can quickly become a maintenance chore. Learn one solution for a reusable, flexible, extensible, maintainable approach to managing content presentation in a portal by combining the use of configuration and includes files rather than developing all new code for new content sources and/or layouts.

Patterns exist for virtually all common programming challenges, even one as simple as "how to traverse a collection of objects." The iterator pattern provides a consistent solution for something that programmers do daily.

Starting with version 9.2, WebLogic Portal provides two options for creating JSF (JavaServer Faces) portlets. Learn how to use both approaches and choose the right approach for your project.

Mashups are all the rage in web application development. Discover what web mashups are and learn about mashups in the enterprise with the BEA Data Services AquaLogic platform.

Discover the 10 most common causes of portal project failure and how to avoid them, based on 12 years of experience.

The state pattern can help simplify complex conditional logic by representing individual states as classes, each with its own simple behavior.

Front end architecture describes how business capabilities are exposed to employees, customers, and partners through the web, mobile, voice, and web services interaction media. As such, front end architecture is where business meets IT. Learn the benefits you can realize through a thoughtfully designed front end architecture.

Tired of over-committing to one web scripting technology only to get derailed by the client's browser? Wt will insulate your application logic from the bumpy ride of trying to guess the right web platform for your apps.

Objects talking to each other and no one in control? Messages going all over the place? The mediator pattern can help you control the chaos!

Writing great code for connecting a front-end application to a remote web server resource is one thing. But, guaranteeing a satisfactory experience for the users of this connection is another.

Many of the design patterns lead a double life—the structure of some patterns are exactly alike, but the intent differs. An interpreter is a composite whose purpose is to support interpretation of a simple grammar.

Discover two different ways to implement SOAP web services. The methods discussed here can also use either RPC or Document style implementations, and can significantly differ in development and maintenance efforts.