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New Articles
 o Does Code Generation matter to Java Developers?
 o JDBC Performance Tips: Using Database MetaData Methods Appropriately

TSS Blogger Program
 o Sending Velocity-based E-Mail with Spring
 o Using the Quartz Scheduler in J2EE

Book Reviews
 o Tapestry In Action

TheServerSide Java Symposium 2004
 o Last chance to register for TheServerSide Java Symposium

Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
 Some key headlines:
 o Sun Java Studio Creator Early Access Released
 o Sun announces peace with Microsoft: Legal and technical

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Does Code Generation matter to Java Developers?

By Norman Richards

Code generation saves time and effort and can greatly improve the maintainability of a system. In this article, Norman Richards looks at the importance of code generation in terms of reusability and as a high level language, and describes his experiences using code generation in a real world project that migrated a large business model from hand coded business objects to business objects generated from a UML model.

JDBC Performance Tips: Using Database MetaData Methods Appropriately

By John Goodson

This series of articles presents some general guidelines for improving JDBC application performance that have been compiled by examining the JDBC implementations of numerous shipping JDBC applications. Part 1 looks at how to minimize the use of database metadata methods, avoid search patterns, and how to use a dummy query to determine table characteristics.

Sending Velocity-based E-Mail with Spring

By Matt Raible

Matt Raible has written about the JavaMail and Velocity support in the Spring Framework. The article is a short tutorial for setting up Spring's JavaMail support on a PositionManager class, followed by replacing the e-mail's text with a Velocity template. Matt is the author of the upcoming Spring Live book on the framework.

Using the Quartz Scheduler in J2EE

By Debu Panda

Debu Panda of Oracle has written about the Quartz Scheduler, which is the open source equivalent of cron for J2EE. Debu walks you through an example of scheduling a job using the Quartz API.

Tapestry In Action

By Kris Thompson

Kris Thompson reviews Howard Lewis Ship's Tapestry In Action (Manning). The book reaches many different audiences: the beginning is dedicated to the developer just flirting with Tapestry, the middle chapters strongly geared to the Tapestry Power user, and the final chapters to the Architect. For those thinking about working with Tapestry, this book serves as an excellent guide.

Last chance to register for TheServerSide Java Symposium

TheServerSide Java Symposium is less than a month away! Registration has exceeded all expectations, but there are still a few spots left. There is no other event like this in the enterprise Java community. Although the event is less than a month away, you can still register this month and save $100 off the list price. Visit: http://www.theserverside.com/symposium/index.html

BEA, Sun advance their Java app servers
BEA Systems Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. each advanced their Java application servers Monday. BEA offered customers a path to utility computing through a partnership with Veritas Software Corp., while Sun released a low-end version of its application server that supports the latest enterprise Java standard.

Sun Java Studio Creator Early Access Released
Sun has announced the early access release of the Java Studio Creator development environment (formerly code-named Project Rave). Check it out to see if Sun have released the tool for visual web development.

Atomikos Releases TransactionsJTA 1.30
Atomikos has released TransactionsJTA 1.30, a Java Transaction API (JTA and XA, not JTS) transaction manager with many added and improved features. The latest version supports a transactioning micro-kernel, distributed transactions, nested transactions, read-only optimization, and more.

Rich Green quits Sun due to Microsoft settlement
Rich Green, former VP of developer platforms and Java advocate has quit Sun. During the US Microsoft antitrust trial, Green was one of Sun's key witnesses, arguing that Microsoft tried to undermine Java by shipping an incompatible version of the JVM. Green's exit is said to be just one of several that have come as a result of the Microsoft deal.

Berkeley DB Java Edition Announced
For years, Sleepycat Software has developed and distributed Berkeley DB in C. Now, due to customer demand, Sleepycat has announced a version of Berkeley DB that is written entirely in Java.

Sun announces peace with Microsoft: Legal and technical
Sun Microsystems announced that it has settled with Microsoft. The settlement will involve a payment of $1.95 billion to Sun. Scott McNealy claims, "This is a big day for customers. Everywhere we go customers say we have Sun and Microsystems technology and we need interoperability. We need peace."

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