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| February 18, 2003 | Newsletter Circulation: 130 000+ | No. 4 |
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Tales From TheServerSide
o Gates and McNealy Part II: The Conspiracy
Featured Articles
o Integrating JSP/JSF and XML/XSLT: The Best of Both Worlds
TheServerSide Symposium
o TheServerSide Symposium - Register by Feb 28th
J2EE Training Video
o Complimentary Training Video on Understanding J2EE
New Tech Talks
o Mark Little - Spec Lead, XML Transactioning API for Java (JAXTX)
New Patterns
o Transparent Distributed Lazy Loading and Persistence
New Reviews
o Websphere 5 Review
Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
Some key headlines:
o Alleged Sun Memo Criticizes Java Platform and Solaris OS
o BEA offers two new entry level editions of Weblogic
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Tales From TheServerSide
Gates and McNealy Part II: The Conspiracy
As they repose in a distant space bar, McNealy and Gates go at it again, this time, as allies, complotting a plan for world domination. Will their alliance grow to become an unstoppable monopoly?
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Featured Articles
Integrating JSP/JSF and XML/XSLT: The Best of Both Worlds
This article shows how JSP and XML technologies can be used together to build elegant and scalable applications. With milestones such as JSP 1.1, Struts 1.0 and JSTL 1.0, server-side Java technology has progressively integrated many successful techniques from real-world development. You will first be taken through this server-side evolution and then learn how Model 2X, a combination of JSP technology and XML processing, can improve the flexibility of the presentation layer.
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This newsletter sponsored in part by BEA BEA eWorld 2003 is almost here! Join us March 2-5 in Orlando, FL for over 100 technical breakout sessions, 140 exhibitors, the opportunity to meet with BEA experts and evangelists, a chance to test-drive the latest BEA platform technologies, and network with top developers, IT Managers, Architects, CIOs, CTOs, and more. BEA dev2dev members receive a 25% discount off the regular conference rate. Register Today!
TheServerSide Symposium
TheServerSide Symposium - Register by Feb 28thBoston, June 27 - 29 Weekend
Fellow TSS members, in the last newsletter I introduced to you TheServerSide Symposium, a limited-attendance J2EE technical conference running the June 27-29 weekend in Boston, MA. Since then we've added new speakers and have seen even more registrations than we had expected. Here is a small sample of the great speakers/talks that will be presented at the symposium:
J2EE and the Web Services Movement - This talk will discuss the influence of Web services on the J2EE platform. Starting with laying the basic foundation for Web services at the message manipulation level, the talk will move on to J2EE 1.4's inclusion of Web services and a discussion on the potential impact of Web services standards on future J2EE versions.
Jim Knutson: Spec Lead of the J2EE Webservices JSR 109, Websphere J2EE Architect.
Next Generation of Applying J2EE Patterns - This session will focus on the usage and future of patterns based on the speaker's experience in closely monitoring the J2EE patterns community over the last three years. Also, this talk will demonstrate some features of the Jackpot project, an ambitious joint pattern-based code generation project between Sun Professional Services and Sun Labs.
John Crupi: Co-Author, Core J2EE Patterns. Distinguished engineer and Chief Java Architect at Sun.
AOP, EJB and the Future of J2EE - In this talk, Rod Johnson begins by examining AOP concepts, before looking at approaches to implementing AOP including language enhancements (AspectJ) and standard Java approaches using dynamic proxies. Rod examines the implications of AOP for J2EE: how AOP can provide a lighter-weight yet more powerful alternative to EJB for many problems. The talk concludes with code examples showing how AOP can be used to solve common problems.
Rod Johnson: Servlet 2.4 expert group member. Author, expert one-on-one: J2EE Design and Development.If you're thinking about benefiting from this incredible show, you should register by Feb 28th. This is a limited (500 person) event, and this newsletter alone is received by over 130,000 people! If you register in February you will get the whole symposium for $995 ( $500 discount) and you'll get to choose from over 15 books written by J2EE experts speaking at the show and meet them in person to get a personally autographed copy.
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Checkout http://www.theserverside.com/symposium.
I hope to meet you there,
Floyd Marinescu
Director of TheServerSide.com
Author, EJB Design Patterns
J2EE Training Video
Understanding J2EE - Presented by Ed Roman
This short video is good for those getting started with J2EE. It will help you better understand the buzzwords, and better communicate with developers; it shows Ed Roman teaching actual courseware from The Middleware Company's "Enterprise Java for Managers" course.
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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 Mark Little who talks about Transactions in J2EE.
Mark Little - Spec Lead, XML Transactioning API for Java (JAXTX)
In this interview, Mark discusses two key JSRs addressing Transactions, JSR 156: XML Transactioning API for Java (JAXTX), and JSR 95, the activity service for extended transactions. He looks at the impact extended transactions will have on development, and provides an example of a use case for Web services using JAXTX.
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New Patterns
Transparent Distributed Lazy Loading and Persistence
By Tim Fox
By use of appropriate O/R mapping tool/JDO and by "advising" classes, I present a framework, that more or less eliminates the use of value objects, entity beans, whilst maintaing optimal performance on a distributed system, thus reducing code complexity and shortening development time.
Read Pattern here
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New Reviews
Websphere 5 Review
By Mircea Oancea
Recently I had to migrate a Web + EJB 2.0 application from WebLogic 7 (WLS) to WebSphere 5 (WAS). Through this process, I learned many things about WAS5. I am writing this review to share my experiences with others who may find themselves in the same situation as I did and with those deciding whether WAS5 is for them.
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Key J2EE Industry Headlines
Opinion: Is the Sun Rising or Falling?
What is the future for Sun, and hence Java. A couple of opinions discuss where Sun is moving. Robert Cringely seems to think that the Sun is setting, but maybe a merger with Sony can save them. Tom Yager comments on how Sun is "putting customers in charge of Sun Microsystems", and how that can put them in good stead.
Read more here.
Microsoft Patent .NET APIs: Potential to stifle standards effort
Microsoft is in the process of applying for a wide-ranging patent that covers a variety of functions related to .NET. The patent is claimed to be very broad, and could allow Microsoft to dictate how, or whether, developers of software and devices can link to .NET.
Read more here.
ALLEGED: Sun Memo Criticizes Java Platform and Solaris OS
An *alleged* internal report by Sun employees offers this damning assessment: "Within Sun, Java is not viewed as a satisfactory language for the construction of commercial applications." The report is focused on Solaris's JVM implementation, but many of the issues raised in the report are cross-platform.
Read more here.
Survey Pegs Microsoft, IBM, Oracle as top Web Services Players
Gartner has released results from a couple of surveys they ran late last year. When asked about the "top three" Web services platforms they had planned on ramping up on, 58% of systems integrators said .NET, 40% IBM, and 31% Oracle. In a separate survey of enterprises (clients of systems integrators), 39% planned to use J2EE while 33% planned to use .NET.
Read more here.
BEA offers two new entry level editions of Weblogic
BEA has announced two new entry level editions of WebLogic. Weblogic Express (announced in the past) will be targeted at JSP only applications and WebLogic Workgroup Edition gives the full features of Weblogic Server for 20 users or less. Both use the same codebase as the full version.
Read more here.
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