Montvale, NJ, January 28, 2002 - SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), headquartered in Montvale, New Jersey, announced today the immediate availability of its newest title, BEA WebLogic Developer's Journal via subscription and through retail outlets worldwide. Subscription options to the magazine are available at SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com) or BEA Systems (www.bea.com) Web sites.
BEA WebLogic Developer's Journal (WLDJ) will be published monthly by SYS-CON Media, the world's leading i-technology publisher, and is the single best source for in-depth information for BEA developers around the world. WLDJ's editorial mission is to provide WebLogic developers with the latest advancements on BEA's products and technology. Coverage will showcase technical solutions that will guide, inform, and educate its audience so they can leverage the full potential of the BEA platform, as well as a wide range of complementary third-party tools and technologies. WLDJ will also feature pre-release updates from the BEA product teams, tips and tricks, product reviews, customer case studies, interviews with BEA executives, and a spotlight on BEA's partners. WLDJ is aimed at making it even easier to build and deploy on the WebLogic platform with value-added impact on your business.
Photo: Tod Nielsen (right), chief marketing officer of BEA Systems with SYS-CON editors Gail Schultz and Sean Rhody
The premier issue of BEA WebLogic Developer's Journal, available now, includes a feature story on BEA WebLogic Server Clustering by Tyler Jewell and Lawrence Kaye; as well as other exclusive articles such as "Finding Production System Performance Problems," by Carl Seglem; "Avoiding Performance Pitfalls with Entity EJBs," by Rob Woollen; "Message Driven Beans," by Sam Pullara; "Transaction Management," by Peter Holditch; and "Asynchronous Messaging with WebLogic Server, Server Sessions, and MDBs," by Bill Kemp. Several of these articles are also available online for preview at www.sys-con.com/weblogic/. WLDJ is edited by Jason Westra, a well-respected industry expert and long-time EJB columnist for Java Developer's Journal, another leading title from SYS-CON Media.
The March issue of WLDJ, available in stores and to subscribers in late February 2002, will feature a special focus on the seventh annual BEA eWorld Developer Conference, which will be held February 24-27, 2002 in San Diego. This special issue will feature in-depth coverage on BEA's new application infrastructure products which will include the latest release of BEA's award-winning WebLogic ServerTM; a new development framework and runtime environment designed to simplify Java development for non-J2EE experts, and a new integrated application infrastructure. The inside scoop on these hot new technologies will provide tips on how to leverage BEA's platform to rapidly build and deploy enterprise-class Web Services. For more information on BEA eWorld Developer Conference go to: www.bea.com/events/eworld/2002/. "BEA is extremely excited to provide its WebLogic community of developers with the new resource of WLDJ," said Tod Nielsen, chief marketing officer for BEA Systems, Inc. "WLDJ provides the developer community a first-hand look on how BEA is working to revolutionize how Java can be utilized by making it dramatically easier to use and expanding the reach of Java to the application developer. In the coming months and future issues of WLDJ, readers will learn about WebLogic advances to radically unify and simplify application infrastructure, along with new developer resources and best practices to help make developers' jobs easier and more productive."
"SYS-CON Media spotted a leading trend toward the Java-based WebLogic e-business platform," said Fuat Kircaali, CEO and founder of SYS-CON Media. "We have received hundreds of thousands requests from our readers to publish a monthly journal dedicated to BEA WebLogic users. The response to date, even before the first issue has hit the newsstands, has been extremely encouraging. The interest in BEA WebLogic Developer's Journal is strong not only in the growing BEA developer community, but also with the more than 3,000 BEA partners, many of whom have expressed an interest and commitment to advertise in the publication. We are anticipating an impressive growth for BEA WebLogic Developer's Journal."
BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BEAS), a leading application infrastructure software company, has already won the confidence of thousands of systems integrators, independent software vendors, and application service providers with their award-winning, Java-based WebLogic e-business platform. Reliable and highly scalable, the WebLogic brand has become one of the most trusted in the e-business
Each month SYS-CON Media reaches over half a million i-technology professionals through its specialty journals, magazines, books, conferences, and the SYS-CON Interactive portal with its 87 Web sites at www.sys-con.com.
About SYS-CON Events, Inc.: SYS-CON Events, Inc. is the world's leading producer of i-technology developer conferences and expositions. SYS-CON Events' upcoming developer conference calendar includes: "Web Services Edge 2002 East - International Web Services Conference & Expo," colocated with "JDJEdge 2002 East- International Java Developer Conference & Expo," and "XMLEdge 2002 East- International XML Conference & Expo" to take place June 24-27 at Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City; and "Web Services Edge 2002 West - International Web Services Conference & Expo," colocated with "Wireless Edge 2002 - International Wireless Business & Technology Conference & Expo," and "JDJEdge 2002 West- International Java Developer Conference & Expo," and "XMLEdge 2002 West- International XML Conference & Expo," to take place October 1-3, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California.
CONTACT: Gail Schultz (editorial) SYS-CON Media 201 802-3083 gail@sys-con.com
Miles Silverman (advertising) SYS-CON Media 201 802-3029 miles@sys-con.com
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