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Best Practices for Using XSLT in WAS Applications - Use of XSL offers many strategic advantages

Mon, 24 Nov 2003 00:00:00 EST

XSLT (eXtended Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a very powerful and flexible tool in the XML technology arsenal for transforming XML documents into HTML, plain text, or different XML representations.

Performance Best Practices for Using WAS Web Services

Thu, 23 Oct 2003 00:00:00 EDT

Web services performance comes of age in WebSphere Application Server (WAS) version 5.0.2, but just as with more traditional J2EE applications, the performance of Web services applications is largely determined by the design of the application and the database.

Optimizing WebSphere 5.0 Performance

Fri, 21 Mar 2003 00:00:00 EST

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 5.0 introduces EJB 2.0 support, which offers new and important opportunities for application architects, such as EJB 2.0 local interfaces; container-managed relationships for EJB-modeled associations; message-driven beans; EJB home methods; EJB-select methods; an internal EJB finder; and EJB-QL, a standard way of defining EJB select and EJB finders. All of these are part of the J2EE EJB 2.0 Specification. To improve the performance of container-managed persistence entity beans WAS 5.0 offers two new tuning levers that reduce database latency and can significantly improve application performance.