Welcome to The Sphere The Sphere Journal is the technical journal and Online Knowledgebase for WebSphere developers, administrators, architects, and managers. WebSphere professionals seek out The Sphere for the most reliable technical guidance and instruction found anywhere. Independent and unbiased, The Sphere only publishes practical, need-to-know technical information for your most important WebSphere projects. No advertising. No hidden agenda. No fluff. And all of it comes directly from the industry's top experts. With a 100% money-back guarantee, The Sphere enables you to complete your WebSphere projects correctly, boost productivity, save time and money, and meet your key business goals faster. The Sphere - It's how WebSphere professionals succeed.™ Our users recently gave us their reasons why The Sphere is necessary to their WebSphere investment.     In The Latest Issue July / August 2008     Best practices for installing and configuring WebSphere Portlet Factory V6.x by Paul T. Calhoun, NetNotes Solutions Unlimited, Inc. Design and tune large topologies for high performance and stability with IBM WebSphere XD V6.1 by Nitin Gaur, IBM A “minimal but sufficient” approach to WebSphere Portal deployments: Key early decisions by Michael Henderson, PDS Technical Services Optimize WebSphere sMash applications with the Dojo Build system and Dojo ShrinkSafe by Roland Barcia and Gang Chen, IBM How to propagate user identity when using JMS in a WebSphere-based SOA solution by Rajiv Ramachandran, Prolifics Get relational with Rational Application Developer by Paul T. Calhoun, NetNotes Solutions Unlimited, Inc.   Copyright © 2008 Wellesley Information Services. All rights reserved. Email: customer@spherejournal.com. The Sphere, 990 Washington St, Suite 308, Dedham, MA 02026, USA. Customer Service: 1.781.751.8799