TheServerSide.com Newsletter #2

January 22, 2003

Circulation: 125 000+

No. 2

This newsletter sponsored in part by Candle

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In This Issue

J2EE Training Video
o Complimentary Training Video on J2EE Best Practices

Featured Articles & Chapters
o Use JCA 1.5 and EJB 2.1 to Extend your Application Server
o Apply Patterns to Manage Security in your J2EE Applications

New Reviews
o Review of Rational XDE

Tales From TheServerSide
o TheServerSide Calls for Real World J2EE Project Stories

New Tech Talks
o Christophe Ebro on JMX

TMC Education Strategies
o LAST CHANCE to get a $500 Amazon.com Gift Certificate

Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
Some key headlines:
o Sun Readying J2EE 1.4
o Sybase EAServer sets new SPECjAppServer2001 Records

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J2EE Training Video

Learn More About J2EE Best Practices: Complimentary Training Video

The Middleware Company is offering a complimentary video download that teaches you all about J2EE Best Practices. This video is a taste of The Middleware Company's training classes in which one of its architects, Owen Taylor, is shown teaching actual courseware.

Download Training Video on J2EE Best Practices Here

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Featured Articles & Chapters

Serve it up with J2EE 1.4 - Extending the App Server using JCA 1.5 and EJB 2.1

By Wade Poziombka

J2EE 1.4 makes application servers more versatile than ever before and truly extensible. This article demonstrates how to implement a server using the J2EE 1.4 features: Java Connector Architecture (JCA) 1.5 and EJB 2.1. It shows how the two features can be combined to provide multithreaded servers that can be written and deployed in an open and portable way. These capabilities are demonstrated in the context of an SMTP server.
Read Article Here

Apply Patterns to Manage Security in your J2EE Applications

Excerpted from "J2EE Design Patterns Applied" (Wrox Publications)

Learn more about J2EE security patterns and their benefits. This chapter excerpt introduces security patterns in the context of a J2EE Web Banking Application. It identifies relevant security patterns, and applies them to the design of both the app and its operating environment. Uses cases are developed and code is presented for all the major classes.
Read Chapter here

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This newsletter sponsored in part by Rational

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New Reviews

Review of Rational XDE (Extended Development Environment)

By Vaughn Vernon

In this review, I'll first introduce you to the project I have used to base my analysis on and some high-level concepts around emerging software modeling standards. Next, I'll review some of the features introduced with XDE, talking about my own productivity with the tool as well as some of the problems I encountered. I'll wrap things up with a discussion on pricing and availability.
Read Review here

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Tales From TheServerSide

TheServerSide Calls for Real World J2EE Project Stories

Experience is often the best teacher, yet there is hardly any thing written about real world projects: the decisions, outcomes, the architectures, etc. TheServerSide would like to begin publishing stories about real J2EE projects, and needs your help. Tell us about a project you've been on, and we'll consider featuring you and your story here, letting others learn from your experience.

If you have cool stories, you can discuss them here, but make sure you submit them to stories@theserverside.com.

Sincerely,
TheServerSide Team
Find out more here

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New Tech Talk

Get insight on current J2EE issues from the industry experts , in TheServerSide's Tech Talks! Videos Hosted on HostJ2EE.com. Featured this week is Christophe Ebro who talks about JMX.

Christophe Ebro - Solution Architect, Sun Microsystems

In this interview, Christophe discusses the Java Management Extensions (JMX) API, the problems it solves and how a developer can use it. He looks at the three types of MBeans, how JMX can be used to manage J2EE servers, related tools and technologies that will develop around it, and the future of JMX in the J2EE spec.

Watch Christophe Ebro's Video Interview Here
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TMC Education Strategies

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This newsletter sponsored in part by Oracle

Good news! J2EE Design Patterns are built into Oracle9i JDeveloper so you can quickly build high-performance, high-quality J2EE applications and Web services. It also includes visual tools and one-click deployment to any J2EE app server. Click to download your complimentary Design Pattern Guide.

Key J2EE Industry Headlines

State judge rules that EULAs cannot restrict benchmarks/reviews

A New York state Supreme Court Justice last week ruled that Network Associates cannot restrict public benchmarks or reviews using its End User License Agreement (EULA). Normally this wouldn't be that big of a deal, but since this has been a restriction applied by virtually all of the J2EE appserver vendors, it could set a precedent allowing anyone to publish J2EE server comparison numbers.
Read more here.

Sun to Simplify Java

Sun Microsystems said it wants to make Java simpler and more straightforward. Sun CTO, John Fowler, said his team plans to "reduce the amount of fragmentation" going on in the Java community by doing more outreach and education for developers and vendors. They also said it will establish a new advisory council in April, and that they will not offer up Java as an open source format
Read more here.

Enterprise Software Stock Analyst favours BEA and Borland

Investment analyst Managing Director David Breiner of Bear Stears recommends BEA and Borland as well positioned for the inevitable economic upturn because BEA "enjoys some competitive advantages" and Borland is the last independent tools vendor of note. Regarding Web Services, "we don't expect it to generate a lot of purchase orders in the near term."
Read more here.

Cost benefits of using J2EE and Open Source

ZDNet has posted a brief article about the cost savings of using Open source J2EE solutions. The article profiles an insurance company project that used java and open source projects to integrate systems as diverse as IBM AS/400s, Windows 2000 servers and Oracle servers. Velocity, jboss, and eclipse were used in development.
Read more here.

Sun Readying J2EE 1.4

Sun officials have presented a laundry list of technology and promotional efforts planned for J2EE, including the February release of the final draft of J2EE 1.4. They expressed support for the Oracle let JSR 198 (open API for IDE's) but criticized Eclipse because it is based on the SWT framework, which they claim is not multi-platform.
Read more here.

IBM submits first SPEC jAppServer2002 Results

IBM has made its first submission to the J2EE 1.3 benchmark SPECjAppServer2002. The results position IBM with 297.65 TOPS (total operations per second) at $1108.14/TOPS; The results were submitted to distributed category, which has transactions spanning multiple databases/resource managers (transactions using two phase commit).
Read more here.

Sybase EAServer sets new SPECjAppServer2001 Records

Sybase has released their latest SPECjAppServer2001 benchmark results. Sybase now leads the dual node category with 202.12 BOPS (business operations per second), and its 332.73 $/BOPS is the best across all categories.
Read more here.

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