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| For the past several years, HP has
made a strategic investment in and
commitment to BEA technology,
vision, and go-to-market initiatives,
becoming one of only two BEA
Strategic Partners. (The other one is
Intel.) BEA Systems, Inc., is the world’s
leading application infrastructure
software company, providing the
enterprise software foundation for
more than 15,000 customers around
the world. Together, BEA software
and HP platforms—including the
flagship HP NonStop server—deliver powerful, integrated solutions
for high productivity, infrastructure
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| According to Rick Jackson, vice
president of Product and Solutions
Marketing at BEA, HP is BEA’s
fastest-growing deployment platform
for WebLogic Server. “WebLogic
translates into customers being able
to achieve increased business value
faster than ever before,” he stated.
“Combined with the HP NonStop
server platform, we’re able to take
that value and also deliver the
mission-critical reliability that our
customers depend on. Customers
absolutely require a robust, guaranteed
delivery platform. This is why we’re
seeing increased demand for WebLogic
on top of HP NonStop servers.”
Industrial-strength platform
BEA describes WebLogic Server as
an industrial-strength application
infrastructure for developing, integrating,
securing, and managing
distributed Java™ applications. It
runs on virtually all major server
platforms, including HP’s entire
enterprise lineup: Windows NT®,
Linux®, HP-UX, Tru64 UNIX®,
OpenVMS, and NonStop platforms.
“WebLogic Server on the NonStop
platform combines the industry-leading
Java application server with
the industry-leading fault-tolerant
computing system, providing an
excellent distributed application
environment for transaction processing
and other applications,”
commented Jim Peters, product
manager for WebLogic in HP’s
NonStop Enterprise Division. “Best of
all, WebLogic Server inherits the continuous
availability, linear scalability,
and other core fundamentals of the
NonStop server it’s running on.”
Customers in a broad range of
industries—including banks, travel
companies, publishers, airlines,
telecommunications service providers
and network equipment providers,
stock exchanges, government entities,
and cable and ISV companies—are
actively evaluating WebLogic on
NonStop servers for use in their
enterprise operations. Some, including
MyTravel and Bank-Verlag, have
gone beyond the assessment phase
to actual implementation.
“MyTravel has been using NonStop
servers for 24 years,” said Thommy
Jakobsson, IT infrastructure manager
at MyTravel in Stockholm, Sweden.
“We’ve now completed a comprehensive
pilot program using BEA
WebLogic Server on NonStop
servers, and we have already gone
into production with a relatively
small application. We are very optimistic
about the ease of use and ease
of development that WebLogic
brings to the NonStop platform, and
we are working on the development
of more WebLogic applications
that we expect to run on
NonStop servers in production in
the near future.” MyTravel is a wholly
owned subsidiary of MyTravel
Group plc, one of the world’s leading
holiday and leisure groups.
Wolfgang Breidbach, head of
system services at Bank-Verlag in
Cologne, Germany, appreciates the
NonStop platform’s support for
open standards. “I believe this will
be especially relevant in Bank-Verlag’s electronic banking and payment
environments,” he said. “At
the moment, we are testing BEA
WebLogic on the NonStop platform
and have successfully migrated one
application. Even on the Internet
you have to be available, so we are
happy that the most available
platform on the market—the HP
NonStop server—supports these
industry-standard offerings.” Bank-
Verlag provides both publishing
and IT services for Germany’s 300
private banks.
The best foundation for enterprise applications
HP has, in fact, incorporated WebLogic
Server in its own Zero Latency
Enterprise (ZLE) technology to
enhance its next-generation supply
chain environment. A J2EE component
called Real Time Information
Director takes advantage of WebLogic
Server on the NonStop platform—inheriting the WebLogic application
server capabilities as well as
the fundamentals of the NonStop
server platform. (See “Real Time
Information Director eases supply
chain management” sidebar.)
Going forward, BEA and HP will
continue to collaborate to deliver
new versions of the WebLogic suite
of products on the NonStop platform,
including WebLogic Integration.
BEA WebLogic Integration is an
enterprise application integration (EAI)
environment—a common framework
for integrating incompatible and
distributed systems—that supports
existing and forthcoming standards
for connecting applications within
and between enterprises.
The NonStop server is an open
platform that can be used with standard
application infrastructures,
including BEA WebLogic Server. In
production in both customer environments
and HP’s internal supply
chain, WebLogic Server on the
NonStop platform is also under serious
consideration by many more
NonStop system users. It provides a
robust, fault-tolerant foundation on
which to build Adaptive Enterprise
applications. For the crucial tasks
of application development and
deployment—from integrating enterprise
systems and databases to delivering
services and collaborating over
the Internet—the logical starting
place is WebLogic Server on the
NonStop platform.
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Real Time Information Director eases supply chain management
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Even HP is taking advantage of BEA WebLogic Server on the NonStop platform—with its own ZLE technology—to enhance its next-generation supply chain
environment. The ZLE architecture enables the real-time enterprise by providing
an up-to-the-second view of distributed customer and business operations.
“In building new components to satisfy the requirements for supply chain solutions,
we needed speed of development and optimum flexibility,” explained Steve Carr,
architect for real-time and ZLE solutions. “We also wanted to build an architecture
that not only took advantage of standards such as Java and XML, but also made
best use of the fundamental strengths of the NonStop platform: scalability,
availability, reliability, and mixed workload capabilities.
“To meet all these requirements,” continued Carr, “we decided to build a J2EE
component—we call it the Real Time Information Director, or Information Director
for short—that could take advantage of BEA WebLogic Server on the NonStop
platform.” By running as a component within the platform, the Information
Director inherits the WebLogic application server capabilities as well as NonStop
system fundamentals.
Instead of using XSLT style sheets for off-platform mapping, and ODBC to load the data
into the NonStop SQL data store, the supply chain project team wanted to use this
newly developed J2EE component for on-platform loading and mapping. Ultimately, the
goal is to handle all inbound and outbound data from the supply chain hub data store
through the Real Time Information Director.
Steven Howell, technical analyst for HP’s supply chain project, is extremely pleased
with how the WebLogic Server–based component is working in HP’s complex
supply chain environment. “Using the Real Time Information Director and the
metadata capabilities of Real Time Supply Chain means better performance and
improved ease of use for our supply chain data management environment,” he said.
“This has also allowed us to take advantage of the parallel processing environment
inherent in the NonStop system for our on-platform loading and metadata mapping.
The result is an extensible, reliable, scalable, and available foundation for management
of HP’s supply chain. And the fact that the Information Director runs as part of the
‘WebLogic Server on NonStop server’ environment allows us to manage the application
using standard management interfaces, and we can trust the application to be
available
24 x 7 x 365.”
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