[TheServerSide Newsletter #3 Featuring TheServerSide Symposium]
February 4, 2003 Newsletter Circulation: 125 000+ No. 3


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In This Issue


TheServerSide Symposium
 o First Ever TSS Symposium Coming Soon

Featured Articles
 o Interview with Rod Johnson on J2EE Design and Development
 o J2EE Best Practices Whitepaper by The Middleware Company

Web Services Training Video
 o Ed Roman Presents Complimentary Training Video on Web Services

New Tech Talks
 o Dennis Leung - Vice-President, Oracle9iAS TopLink Development

New Patterns
 o Value Object Dispatcher Pattern
 o A Component Identification Pattern

New Reviews
 o Learning about JBoss 3 from Atlanta Bootcamp

Sponsored Whitepapers
 o 5 Key Coding Practices for Performance, by Candle

Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
 Some key headlines:
 o BEA Readies Weblogic 8.1
 o RemoteApps Liquidation: Is there a market for RAD frameworks?

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TheServerSide Symposium


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TheServerSide Symposium
Boston, June 27 - 29 Weekend

Fellow TSS members, I am pleased to announce TheServerSide Symposium, a limited-attendance J2EE technical conference running the June 27-29 weekend in Boston, MA. I've been personally working on this show and it is differentiated from other conferences by an all star lineup of people who are making a difference in the enterprise Java development community, as well as an extremely technical and advanced set of sessions of a nature that are not found at less specialized or more commercial shows.

Just take a look at who is speaking at the Symposium:

If you're thinking about benefiting from this incredible show, you should register by Feb 28th. This is a limited (500 person event)! 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.

Checkout http://www.theserverside.com/symposium.

I hope to meet you there,

Floyd Marinescu
Director of TheServerSide.com
Author, EJB Design Patterns


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Featured Articles


Interview with Rod Johnson on J2EE Design and Development

In this interview Rod Johnson looks at some of the deficiencies of the J2EE spec, how the spec has been hindered and helped by Sun, and the importance of third-party and open source frameworks to the advancement of the J2EE community. He gives his opinion on everything from EJB to .NET, and provides his thoughts on J2EE 1.4, Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP), and new features that need to be added to the Java language.

Read Interview Here


J2EE Best Practices
By The Middleware Company

This whitepaper will teach you the best practices that will help you get the most reliability and scalability out of your J2EE based application and the most productivity out of your developers. It covers all elements of the software development cycle, from design through deployment.

Download Whitepaper here


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Web Services Training Video


Understanding the Hype behind Web Services - Presented by Ed Roman

Ed Roman, CEO and founder of TheServerSide.com and The Middleware Company, presents this complimentary training video, which is good for managers or those getting started with Web Services. This video will help you better understand the buzzwords, and better communicate with developers. This video is also a taste of The Middleware Company's training classes.

Download Training Video on Understanding Web Services 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 Dennis Leung who talks about J2EE Persistence issues.


Dennis Leung - Vice-President, Oracle9iAS TopLink Development

In this interview, Dennis discusses J2EE persistence issues such as the object-relational impedance mismatch, and the benefits of O/R mapping products such as TopLink. He looks at the pros and cons of entity beans, JDO support in the industry, and compares .NET vs J2EE persistence.

Watch Dennis Leung's Video Interview Here

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New Patterns


Value Object Dispatcher Pattern
By Nic Holbrook

This pattern allows us to abstract and hide the persistance and retrieval mechanisms from the value objects in a system. This also allows us a single area in the system to manage caching and any other mechanisms we might desire to use within our persistence layer.

Read Pattern here


A Component Identification Pattern
By Nalla Senthilnathan

In J2EE projects it is often required to identify sub-systems and components. The BluePrint's Pet Store demo and the Adventure Builder demo provide interesting insights into designing J2EE applications. Inspired by some of the design ideas from these two examples, I have derived here a pattern for resolving a set of use cases into "apps" (sub-systems) and "components".

Read Pattern here

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New Reviews


Learning about JBoss 3 From Atlanta Bootcamp
By Steve Lewis

I attended the JBoss bootcamp in Atlanta and I'd like to share some of the things I saw/heard. At the event I got to hear some of the latest about JBoss, hang out with the developers, see JBoss in action, and get a glimpse of the future.

Read Review here

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Sponsored Whitepapers


5 Key Coding Practices for Performance



This whitepaper, by Candle Corporation, provides coding performance tips that will help you improve the performance of your J2EE application. In the J2EE environment, there are two types of performance considerations. The first is to improve the Java code, which can be done by applying some simple best practices. The second is focused on the usage of services provided by the J2EE application server containers. This article will focus on five key performance Java coding practices that can be used to improve the throughput of applications.

Download Whitepaper Here

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 This newsletter is sponsored in part by Oracle & Precise
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Key J2EE Industry Headlines

Sun Adds WS-I Basic Profile Support to J2EE 1.4

The J2EE 1.4 spec now mandates support for the "Basic Profile" specification, which was published by the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) to ensure that Web services component technologies, such as SOAP, XML, WSDL, UDDI, and SSL work together. This revision will cause J2EE to ship in the summer (a delay of a few months).

Read more here.

RemoteApps Liquidation: Is there a market for RAD frameworks?

J2EE framework vendor RemoteApps is up for liquidation after its venture investors quit. RemoteApps produced Xyrian, an impressive commercial J2EE RAD framework. This raises questions as to the market for pre-packaged frameworks/RAD tools marked by successes such as Struts but also losses such as Xyrian. Is there a certain level of abstraction that a framework must not cross to remain useful?

Read more here.

Barrons article casts doubt on IBM marketshare numbers

A recent article on Barrons Online casts doubt on the validity of IDC surveys that peg IBM #2 in terms of appserver marketshare, citing a discrepancy between IDC numbers and those provided by IBM to the SEC. An analyst at Goldman Sachs is also quoted claiming that IBM can arbitrarily make its middleware revenue numbers appear larger due to hardware/software bundling deals

Read more here.

Opinion: Extreme Programming Is Evil

Talk of Extreme Programming is getting more and more common. Management is learning about it, and it is being used on many projects. Is it the best way to do software development? Is it right for all projects? A couple of developers are speaking out.

Read more here.

Borland ships Enterprise Server 5.2 and Optimizeit ServerTrace

Borland has recently announced two new products. Borland Enterprise 5.2 is now shipping with support for J2EE 1.3, JDK 1.4.1, and tighter integration with JBuilder. They've also announced Optimizeit ServerTrace, a tool which gives test teams a high level overview of where time and resources are being spent in a transaction, giving clues as to the source of performance problems.

Read more here.

BEA Readies Weblogic 8.1

At eWorld in March, BEA Systems plans to unwrap WebLogic 8.1 appserver and offer a preview of its upgraded portal, integration and WebLogic Workshop products, said solution providers familiar with the vendor's plans. The new Workshop should move from just a webservices-only tool to help manage J2EE development across the entire BEA stack.

Read more here.


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