Robert Shear

Just as service-based applications leverage a shared set of application resources, infrastructure-aware applications leverage a shared infrastructure that can adapt to meet the needs of the application. This article will introduce the basics of a shared infrastructure, look at the Blue Titan Network Director and how it interoperates with WebLogic Enterprise Platform to enable infrastructure-aware application development, and provide a glimpse into the future of adaptive applications. Infrastructure-Aware Applications Applications have traditionally been stand-alone islands of functionality. Web services are changing this by providing a natural way to decompose applications into granular pieces, allowing them to be recomposed and recombined across multiple systems for different uses. This granularity, along with the ability to compose higher-level applications out of ... (more)