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| June 10, 2003 | Newsletter Circulation: 130 000+ | No. 12 |
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Featured Articles
o Introducing the Keel Meta-Framework
Tech Talks
o Thomas Kurian on J2EE and Integration
TheServerSide Symposium
o 16 Days Left until TheServerSide Symposium
Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
Some key headlines:
o Hibernate 2.0 Released
o Commercial JBoss Group Forks
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Featured Articles
By Santanu Dutt
The Keel open source meta-framework, based the Jakarta Avalon project, is a highly extensible backbone for integrating Java components and services. For developers tasked with selecting the right framework for their project, this article looks at some of the benefits Keel offers over other frameworks; it explains the technical architecture of Keel and its core functionalities, examines different deployment scenarios, and looks at various applications and services that come bundled with the framework.
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Tech Talks
Topic: J2EE and Integration
In this interview, Thomas Kurian, Senior Vice President of the Oracle 9i Application Server, discusses the future of the J2EE platform and recommends some improvements on Web services support. He compares application servers with TP monitors, talks about integration servers, comments on the validity of modern marketshare surveys and compares Oracle's product offerings to those of BEA's and IBM's.
TheServerSide Symposium
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For the first time ever, founders and chief architects of all the major enterprise open source java groups are getting together to discuss issues important to the Java community. Join Bill Burke (lead architect of JBoss 4), Mike Cannon-Brookes (founder of OpenSymphony group, Java blogs), Gavin King (architect of Hibernate), Vincent Massol (Apache Struts committer and Cactus founder), and Christophe Ney (president of ObjectWeb consortium) as they discuss quesitons such as the latest innovations open source is bringing to Java, what combinations of projects gives the ultimate J2EE development framework, how to choose between so many frameworks, open source licenses and revenue models, etc.
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Key J2EE Industry Headlines
Hibernate 2.0, the open source persistence framework, has been released. Hibernate 2.0 features substantial redesign in: id generator framework, configuration APIs, interceptor, callbacks, collections, package organization, naming exception model, new mapping format, new "cool" features.
Oracle bids to acquire PeopleSoft; Offer called 'atrocious'
Oracle recently announced a surprise $5.1 billion takeover bid for enterprise software maker PeopleSoft, only a few days after PeopleSoft said it was acquiring rival J.D. Edwards for $1.7 billion. PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway said the offer was 'atrocious' and a transparent attempt to disrupt PeopleSoft's acquisition of J.D. Edwards.
JCP work begins to simplify EJB, JDBC, and other J2EE specs
Five new JSR's have been posted on the JCP which begin the work on major upgrades of significant J2EE specifications such as EJB 3, JDBC 4, JAX-RPC 2.0, JAXB 2.0, etc. All of the new JSR's have ease of development as a major stated goal. Infact, the EJB JSR will try to eliminate deployment descriptors and make EJB's more like plain java classses.
Recently, a host of the JBoss Core Developers announced their separation from The JBoss Group LLC. They have come together with James Strachan from the Apache project and formed Core Developers Network, a training and professional services company geared around open source enterprise development.
JBoss 4.0 Developers Version #1 Released
The first developer's release of JBoss 4.0 is available. It boasts the industry's first AOP framework which, according to JBoss Group, allows developers to interact with the server in an intuitive manner. Some of the services that will be available via this new framework include object persistence, caching, acidity, remoteness, transactions and security.
J2SE 1.5 new language features prototype now available
An early access prototype implementation of new J2SE 1.5 language features is available. It requires J2SE 1.4.1 or later and provides some examples on how to actually use generics, enum, varargs, foreach style loop, boxing-unboxing, static import, and so on. This early access must be bliss for those who can’t wait for Tiger beta which is going to appear in late this year.
Tapestry now an official Jakarta Project
The Tapestry project has now officially relocated from SourceForge to the Apache Jakarta project. Tapestry is a component-based web application framework that supports a high level of developer productivity and code reuse.
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