ATG and BEA

Question

Hi,
Can I use both connection modules (plug-in) from BEA WebLogic and ATG Dynamo against
same ISS at the same time?
Thanks,
-Lu

Answer 1

there are several reason not to chose s.th. else:
-- Bea
-portal runs on Bea appserver only
- missing identity managment
- missing policy management
- third party product needed for SSO, e.g. Netegrity SiteMinder (expensive)
- no hot deployment of channels/provider because portal+provider are one(!) web-app which has to be deployed as 1 web-app, downtime
-needs an additional DB like Oracle
-deployment, configuration is also done by XML files but the "rresult" is then stored in DB in different tables + filesystem and it can't be derived which values in which columns are from where (no real inheritance)
(it's easy to add a culomn during runtime (alter table) but remove a coulmn ??)
-- ATG
niche player, same problems as Bea
--Oracle
all has to be passed and managed by the database
- impossible to differentiate between DB, appserver, webserver, portal, ..
- installs 16 gb on the filesystem at once - for what ?
--Sun
- complete Identity + Policy System
- protect internal resources by agents+policy system
- secure remote access = gateway component
- adds extra security in the DMZ
- netlet: VPN-On-Demand
- URL-Rewriting
- new mobile access for ad hoc 2700+ devices
- integrated search engine
- hot deployment of channels/container/portlets
- delegated admin functionality by IS admin console
- complex desktop layout based on container and Display Profile technology possible
- chnages during runtime possible
- runs on Bea, IBM, Sun
- next versions will support struts, JSFs portlets
- JSR 168 support
- JSR 188 supoort by MA
- Voice support by MA (Voicelets)
- HA and LB architectures possible for ALL components
- runs on Solaris/Sparc
- will run in Solaris/X86
- will run on Linux
- will run on W2K (for dev only)
What else do you want ?
/ulf