Bill Roth's Blog

Another Chapter Begins

At the end of this week, I will no longer be employed by BEA Systems. It has been a great 4 years working at BEA, and undoubtedly the highlight of my career thus far. I have enjoyed the opportunity to write for the BEA developer community, and to lea

Posted: May. 6, 2008 03:21 PM

* JRockit Mission Control Now On Eclipse! *

JRockit Mission Control is now available via BEA's Eclipse Update Site.

Posted: Mar. 14, 2008 02:22 PM

** Fastest Ever: Workshop 10.2 released **

Workshop 10.2 is available now. Its the fastest and highest quality product we've ever produced.

Posted: Mar. 4, 2008 05:58 PM

BEA World Shanghai, Day 2

Reporting live from the Keynotes at BEA World 2007 Shanghai

Posted: Dec. 12, 2007 10:02 PM

BEA World Shanghai, Day 1

The happenings in Shanghai for BEA World China 2007.

Posted: Dec. 11, 2007 10:20 PM

Semantics at Gilbane

Ruminations on Semantics at the Gilbane Content Management Conference

Posted: Nov. 29, 2007 02:43 PM

We need your help. Is UML important?

Is UML important? Please take a short survey to give us your opinion.

Posted: Nov. 16, 2007 05:58 PM

What Programming Frameworks Are You Using?

It's time again for our semi-annual BEA Workshop Framework survey. Could you help us out by answering a few short questions on what development frameworks you are using? Could you please follow this link and take the survey? One respondent...

Posted: Oct. 24, 2007 07:35 PM

** BEA Workshop Studio NOW WITH FLEX! **

The BEA Workshop bundle with Adobe Flex is now available. (Updated with Example)

Posted: Oct. 8, 2007 03:52 PM

Sun's Conflated Benchmark

File this in the "Just So You Know" category. Sun recently announced a new benchmark from their app server. It is an interesting announcement, but you need to read what they say carefully. First off, the are conflating Glassfish with...

Posted: Sep. 25, 2007 03:56 PM

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