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| February 3, 2004 | Newsletter Circulation: 135 000+ | No. 3 |
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TheServerSide Java Symposium 2004
o Announcing TheServerSide Java Symposium 2004
Tales From TheServerSide
o Who's Who in the Enterprise Java World? Make your opinion known!
New Articles
o The Naked Object Architecture Series
Tech Talks
o Bruce Tate on EJB, JDO, J2EE Best Practices
Review Chapters
o Hibernate In Action: Retrieving objects efficiently
Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
Some key headlines:
o Richard Monson-Haefel solicits input on EJB 3.0
o Jakarta Team Releases Commons Collections 3.0
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Fellow TSS members, I am pleased to announce this year's TheServerSide Java Symposium, the enterprise Java community's most focused and respected technical conference. Last year's event was an amazing experience, with featured topics such as J2EE 1.4, large scale systems design, Open Source, AOP, design patterns, Web Services, SOA, JDO, and more. This year we are adding even more great speakers and topics, such as a whole track on real world project case studies, and other important topics.
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TheServerSide Java Symposium features speakers who have been contributing to the enterprise Java space and whose work has undoubtedly influenced the way we develop today or might be developing enterprise applications tomorrow. Take a look:
- People defining the J2EE platform and related technology. J2EE specification lead Mark Hapner, J2EE Web Services (JSR 109) lead Jim Knutson, EJB spec lead Linda DeMichiel, JCP Executive Committee members Richard Monson-Haefel, Jason Hunter, and Sean Neville, and many other expert group members.
- Major open source project committers/founders. Hibernate founder Gavin King, Lucene creator Doug Cutting, Tapestry's Howard Lewis Ship, Apache Cactus founder and Struts committer Vincent Massol, OpenSympony Group founder/core-developer Mike Cannon-Brookes, and others.
- Authors of important enterprise development books. More than 12 book authors including Core J2EE Patterns author John Crupi, J2EE Design and Development Author Rod Johnson, Enterprise Integration Patterns author Gregor Hophe, Agile/OO writer Scott Ambler, Ted Neward, Mark Grand, and others.
- Influencers and other community contributors. TheServerSide.com creator Floyd Marinescu, Web services strategist Anne Thomas Manes, Enterprise Middleware venture capital partner Peter Fenton, and others.
If you're thinking about benefiting from this incredible show, you should register by Feb 28th. There are limited seats but there is great demand. If you register in February you will get the entire symposium for $999 ($300 discount).
Checkout http://www.theserverside.com/symposium.
I hope to meet you there,
Floyd Marinescu
GM of TheServerSide Communities
Author, EJB Design Patterns
This newsletter is sponsored in part by VERITAS Software Download the latest chapter in the VERITAS Software J2EE Expert Series. This chapter will cover many "design for performance" considerations including * what to expose in a distributed interface, * best practices for using particular EJB types, * managing transactions, and * how to answer the question "to EJB or not to EJB". Download your FREE e-Book Now!
The Middleware Company is compiling a list of the year's top 50 who's who in the Enterprise Java world, with the intent of bringing attention and awareness to the movers and shakers in the industry, both the known and the unknown.
Candidates should be chosen and recognized for things they've done in the last 12-16 months. Who had made the most important contributions? Who had the most power and influence? Who were the most notable innovators/entrepreneurs? We have a growing list of names that have been added to the list.
Who would you recommend? To nominate someone, simply reply to this thread and mention who you are nominating with a few words on why they should be in the Who's Who. Feel free to submit as many names as you like!
By Richard Pawson, Robert Matthews, Dan Haywood
The Naked Objects framework aims to improve development productivity and create more agile systems based on cleaner object models. The first two articles from this series introduce the concept of 'Naked Objects' and provide a comparison between an application designed using a conventional 4-layer/multi-tier approach with an application developed using the Naked Objects framework.
Topic: EJB, JDO, J2EE Best Practices
Bruce looks at various topics covered in his two books, Bitter Java and Bitter EJB. He talks about the future of JDO, the top issues with storing state and messaging, and goes over some effective tools for the build process, testing, and measuring performance. He also discusses when a project should use test-driven development.
By Christian Bauer, Gavin King
'Retrieving objects efficiently', excerpted from the book-in-review, 'Hibernate In Action' (Manning), shows you querying techniques using the Hibernate Query Language (HQL) and the Criteria API, which is a type-safe and object-oriented way to perform queries without the need for string manipulation. It also looks at how you can fall back to native SQL, if required.
Richard Monson-Haefel asks for your opinion on EJB 3.0
Richard has come out and said "You can make EJB better". Richard is working on EJB 3.0 (JSR 220). He says "I'm an independent. I don't represent a vendor. Instead I try to represent the interests of J2EE application developers. To do that, I need to know what the development community wants." So, what do we want?
Sun Writes An Open Letter to Eclipse: "Get Serious"
Sun has written an open letter to the Eclipse Foundation, just as Eclipse gains independence. Sun points out key challenges that Eclipse will face, and suggesting a "more serious" mission that would encourage Eclipse to work in concert with the Java Community and Javatools.org to make the Java platform a better, broader base for tools.
Jakarta Releases POI 2.0 Final
The POI Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Jakarta POI 2.0-FINAL release. The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. Support for reading and writing Excel files and property information is mature and work continues on reading and writing the Word format.
Arjuna Releases Distributed JTS and JMS Services for JBoss
Arjuna are pleased to announce the release of the Arjuna+JBoss product which integrates Arjuna’s distributed transaction service (JTS) and messaging service (JMS) with the popular JBoss application server.
Jakarta Team Releases Commons Collections 3.0
The Commons Collections team is pleased to announce that the Commons Collections 3.0 release is now available. Commons Collections is a library providing implementations, interfaces and utilities enhancing the Java Collections Framework. This release has repackaged, and reorganised the code, which means your code may have to change if you upgrade.
Sun Debuts Linux Community For Java Developers
Sun has announced and released linux.java.net, a new java.net community for Linux developers with expanded support for Java technology-based development tools on the Solaris Operating System and Linux and Windows platforms. The mission is "to ensure that Linux becomes and remains a first-tier platform for Java".
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