TheServerSide.com Newsletter #1

January 7, 2003

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In This Issue

Featured Book Excerpt
o Core JSTL: URL Actions

New Public Review Book Chapters
o Core JDO Chapter 9 - Transactions
o Core JDO Chapter 11 - JDO and JDBC
o EJB Cookbook Chapter 5 - Transactions

New Patterns
o True RTTI Killer Pattern

Upcoming Events
o 2003 Wall Street on Java Technology

TMC Education Strategies
o Get A $500 Amazon.com Gift Certificate

Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
Some key headlines:
o Sun VP: MS injunction cancels out .NETs distribution advantage
o Speculation: Microsoft looking to Acquire Macromedia?

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Featured Book Excerpt

Core JSTL: URL Actions

By David M. Geary

The URL Actions chapter, excerpted from "Core JSTL" (Prentice Hall), starts off with an overview of Web application basics and looks at the 4 different JSTL actions. It then looks at how to access external resources, resources in foreign contexts, and how to redirect a response.
Read chapter here

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New Book Chapters for Public Review

TheServerSide is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a book review process for Manning's "Bitter EJB", by Bruce Tate et al., "EJB Cookbook", by Ben Sullins and Mark Whipple, and "Core JDO" (Sun Microsystems Inc & Prentice Hall), by Keiron McCammon, Heiko Bobzin, Sameer Tyagi, and Michael Vorburger. Chapters from these books will be posted to TSS as they are written for public feedback.

Core JDO Chapter 9 - Transactions

First Public Review Posting

The 'Transactions' chapter looks at some fundamental concepts around transactions in Java, the transaction capabilities included in JDO and how they can be used in stand alone applications as well as in conjunction with JTA in managed environments. It also outlines design considerations and practices when using JDO transactionally.
Read/Review the chapter here.

Core JDO Chapter 11 - JDO and JDBC

First Public Review Posting

This chapter reviews the JDBC API, gives a brief overview of relational databases, looks at the history of JDBC, and provides an introduction to the new JDBC 3.0 API. The second part compares JDBC with JDO, discusses features and differences of each, and highlights common misconceptions.
Read/Review the chapter here.

EJB Cookbook Chapter 5 - Transactions

First Public Review Posting

Chapter 5, on 'transactions', covers topics such as handling rollbacks, forcing rollbacks, updating multiple entity beans within a single transaction, and error recovery during a transaction. It starts off by providing some background on the two mechanisms for handling EJB transactions: container managed and bean managed.
Read/Review the chapter here.

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New Patterns

True RTTI Killer Pattern

By Agusti Sanchez

In the RTTI Killer pattern, they needed to: process a collection of value objects, have processing code outside of those objects, remove the "if/instanceof" structure. The solution I suggest uses a modification of the Command pattern in which Command objects delegate processing to a command executor hidden inside a server-side command broker.
Read pattern here

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Upcoming Events

The 3rd Annual Wall Street on Java Technology features the new J2EE 1.4, J2EE, Java, XML, Web Services for Wall Street and the financial markets. Conference sessions cover STP, FIX, and Java technologies by global financial applications. Keynotes include Anne Thomas Manes who will give a training seminar on Web Services and Java.
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Key J2EE Industry Headlines

Macromedia Announces ColdFusion MX For Top J2EE Servers

Macromedia made several announcements, stating that their Coldfusion MX platform was ready to roll on app servers such as BEA, IBM, and Sun ONE (as well as its own JRun of course). They are also tauting MacOS X as an enterprise OS platform.
Read more here.

Announcing Open-source EJB/Struts Code Generator ModelJ

ModelJ is an open-source RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool that uses code generation to create complete J2EE apps using the Struts and EJB, deployable on jBoss. It outputs EJB 2.x deployment descriptors and session and entity beans, with business delegates accessible via Struts.
Read more here.

Sun VP: MS injunction cancels out .NETs distribution advantage

Richard Green, Sun's vice president and general manager for Java and XML, says that the recent court injuction forcing Microsoft to carry Java on Windows will cancel out .NET's distribution advantage over J2EE. IF MS succeeds with an appeal, Java will continue to be "successful in the enterprise, on servers, on handhelds", but not as successful as a desktop development platform.
Read more here.

J2EE Year in Review

2002 was marked by the release of J2SE 1.4, final drafts of J2EE 1.4, the opening of the JCP licensing policies to open source, Web services support by J2EE vendors, tighter integration within vendor product stacks, critical mass for the eclipse project, petstore bechmarks, and the fall of WebGain and HP Bluestone. An article on SDTimes reviews the year.
Read more here.

Tangosol Releases Coherence 2.0

Tangosol have released version 2.0 of Coherence its JCache-compliant clustered data management and caching product. This GA version contains features such as: JDK 1.4 NIO Support, Distributed Cache Queries, Increased Caching Support, J2CA Transactions, and more. TheServerSide uses Coherence to cache entity bean data across Oracle9iAS and Weblogic 7.
Read more here.

Speculation: Microsoft looking to Acquire Macromedia?

A computerwire article reports that "Microsoft Corp is believed to have trained its acquisition crosshairs on Macromedia Inc, lining up a deal that would throw enterprise Java into a spin". Macromedia has built its Flash and Coldufusion server platforms on top of J2EE which provides an entry point into the J2EE world for flash/coldfusion programmers.
Read more here.

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