Roland Barcia

My JSF article series and Meet the Experts appearance on IBM developerWorks received a lot of feedback. I would have to say, the most common question or feedback came along the lines of comparing Struts to JSF. I thought it would be a good idea to compare JSF to Struts by evaluating various features that an application architect would look for in a Web application framework. This article will compare specific features. Those on which I will focus include: Maturity Controller Flexibility/Event Handling Navigation Page development Integration Extensibility Certainly, there are other places in which you might want to do a comparison, such as performance, but I'll focus on the set I just mentioned. I'll also spend more time on the Controller and Navigation sections because th... (more)

Build and Deploy Procedures

This chapter, "Build and Deploy Procedures" is excerpted from the new book, IBM WebSphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration, authored by Roland Barcia, Bill Hines, Tom Alcott and Keys Botzum. © International Business Machines Corporation 2005. ISBN 0-13-146862-6. To learn more, www.phptr.com/title/0131468626. In the last chapter, we provided you with a quick start to WebSphere Appl... (more)

Developing Java and Web Services Applications on Rational Application Developer V6

In this article, WebSphere consultant Roland Barcia answers questions on developing J2EE and Web services applications on IBM Rational Application Developer V6 and deploying and testing those applications on WebSphere Application Server V6. Topics include using the various wizards, perspectives, and tools in Rational Application Developer to develop different types of J2EE applications, ... (more)

AJAX Requests – Data or Markup?

AJAX Requests – Data or Markup? I just got back from the Real World AJAX seminar in NYC on Monday.  Pretty good event with lots of good stories.  One issue that caught my attention was the issue of how the back-end returned the data to AJAX applications.  Most of the speakers preferred data, except for David Hansson from Ruby on Rails seemed to favor markup as the return type (at lea... (more)

Building SOA Solutions with SCA - Service Component Architecture

You may be thinking, oh great, not another programming model. What about Web services? What happened to Enterprise JavaBeans? Well, Service Component Architecture (SCA) is not meant to replace or compete with any existing programming models. Instead, SCA gives you a model to define interfaces, implementations, and references in a technology neutral way, letting you then bind these elemen... (more)