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| March 30, 2004 | Newsletter Circulation: 135 000+ | No. 7 |
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Tales from TheServerSide
o Framework Lock-In
New Articles and Book Chapters
o Cocoon as a Web Framework
o AOSD 2004 Coverage
o Managed Smart Clients
TSS Blogger Program
o Mike Spille on Groovy
Symposium Video
o Bob Lee on Aspect Oriented Java Development
TheServerSide Java Symposium 2004
o Checkout last year's Symposium on Video!
Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
Some key headlines:
o TMC Announces New Business Model, Management Team & Identity
o Gartner reports Java Skills Gap
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After somewhat of a hiatus, TheServerSide is pleased to present a new cartoon, entitled 'Framework Lock-In'. Given the plethora of frameworks out there, how do you go about selecting the right one? Does ease of development come with a cost? This cartoon, conceived by Jason Carreira, offers one perspective. Expect to see a regular stream of cartoons on TSS.com in the coming months.
This newsletter is sponsored in part by JBoss Inc. Coming Soon to a City near You - JBoss and Hibernate Training JBoss Inc. is pleased to announce availability of training courses for JBoss Application Server, the leading Java application server among developers and Hibernate, the leading open source Object/Relational persistence and query service for Java. Visit us online to learn more.
By Neal Ford
Neal Ford looks at Apache Cocoon, a web development framework built around the concepts of separation of concerns and component-based web development. Cocoon introduces 'component pipelines', where each component on the pipeline specializes in a particular operation, allowing you to 'hook together' components into pipelines without any required programming. Cocoon acts as the 'web glue' that keeps concerns separate and allows parallel evolution of all aspects of a web application.
By Dion Almaer
TheServerSide is taking part in this years Aspect-Oriented Software Development Conference, hosted in Lancaster, UK. It has been very interesting to see the mix of academia and industry/open source participation. We have written up the trends that are being discussed at the conference after day one.
Excerpted from Enterprise J2ME by Michael Juntao Yuan
This chapter discusses the benefits and architecture of managed smart clients and introduces the OSGi (Open Services Gateway initiative) specification and IBM's implementation: the SMF (Service Management Framework). Through a simple echo example, it demonstrates how to build the bundles, implement required life-cycle methods, import and export packages, expose and consume bundle services, and add UIs to a bundle application.
TheServerSide is launching a Blogger Program that aims to get great blog content out to as many people as possible. Mike Spille has written the first piece to become a featured article in the Blogger Program. Mike has written an interesting, deep look into the Groovy scripting language.
In this video, filmed at TheServerSide Java Symposium 2003, Bob discusses the state of aspect-oriented programming (AOP) in Java, outlining the various approaches to implementing AOP (custom compilers, dynamic proxies, and byte code manipulation), the pros and cons, and application strategies and patterns. Bob gives an overview of JBoss AOP, highlighting how enterprise Java developers can leverage the framework to make their code easier to understand and more reusable and maintainable.
TheServerSide Java Symposium 2004
What did last year's Symposium look like? What were people saying? You can get a taste of it by watching the following clips and full technical sessions:
- A Glimpse of TheServerSide Java Symposium - a short 3 minute video showing some of the talks and reactions from the attendees.
- The Future of J2EE Panel - One of the keynote events of last year's Symposium. Cedric Beust, Jim Knutson, John Crupi, Mike Burba, Floyd Marinescu, Rick Ross, and Rod Johnson examined the challenges the J2EE community faces moving forward.
- J2EE Architecture Strategies - J2EE Best Practices author Darren Broemmer discussed a number of techniques and patterns for rapidly developing quality, high-performance business components using J2EE.
- Aspect Oriented Java Development - Bob discussed the state of aspect-oriented programming (AOP) in Java, outlining the various approaches to implementing AOP.
There is no other event like this in the enterprise Java community. We expect this limited attendance event of 500 people to sell out quickly. If you register by this Wednesday, March 31st, you'll get the entire Symposium for $1099 ($200 savings) AND a free in-person autographed book from one of our speakers. The April discount will only be $100 and without the free book.
TMC Announces New Business Model, Management Team & Identity
The Middleware Company (TMC) has announced a new business model, management team, and corporate identity. With this announcement TMC is exiting retail Java training to focus on community, consulting, and research, all aimed at creating the world's leading "knowledge network" for middleware professionals.
Spring Framework 1.0 final released
The Spring Framework has gotten to the milestone of a 1.0 final release. Spring 1.0 is a complete Java/J2EE application framework, covering the following functionality: lightweight container, AOP support, JDBC abstraction, source-level metadata, MVC web framework, and much more.
Sun releases updated J2EE 1.4 SDK
Sun has released an updated J2EE 1.4 SDK. The J2EE 1.4 SDK contains the Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8 with support for JavaServer Faces and JSTL. It is free for development, deployment and redistribution.
BEA Announces WebLogic Workshop Professional Edition
BEA has announced a new professional edition of Workshop. This new version is priced just less than $1000, and allows you to commercially deploy Workshop applications. There is also a free development version of Workshop which doesn't let you deploy to production systems.
Gartner reports Java Skills Gap
Gartner has released a report that claims there is a large skills gap for Java developers, and this is creating a large back-log in projects. ITWeb takes this information and concludes that a) It is healthy to be a Java developer, and b) various tools are trying to bridge the gap.
Oracle passes the J2EE 1.4 Compatibility Test Suite
Oracle has announced that it's J2EE Developer Preview appserver has passed the compatibility test suite. Oracle joins Sun and IBM as being the first vendors with beta 1.4 servers. Notably missing is BEA, to which a BEA representative recently responded that "It's no longer a race to be first to offer a preview version...J2EE is only one of many important characteristics of Weblogic Server.
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