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Tales from TheServerSide
 o Trends in Enterprise Development

New Articles
 o Container Driven Testing Series Part II - Testing Entity Beans
 o Enhancing Web Application Performance with Caching

Featured Blogs
 o Dynamic Coupling
 o Cayenne and Hibernate

Book Reviews
 o Covert Java
 o Java Testing and Design

Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
 Some key headlines:
 o Eclipse Foundation Announces Eclipse 3.0
 o Apache Excalibur: New top level IoC Apache project

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Trends in Enterprise Development

Objects, Aspects, Web services, SOA. It seems that new technologies come and go like fashions these days - every one is always talking about the latest trend. In the TSS cartoon, Trends in Enterprise Development, the latest technologies make their way down a fashion show runway.

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Container Driven Testing Series Part II - Testing Entity Beans

By N. Alex Rupp

Container driven testing lets you write more isolated, fine-grained and robust unit tests. Using code samples, N. Alex Rupp covers techniques and strategies for testing your Entity Beans. Entity Beans come with their own special considerations and issues, because in addition to the bean classes and the test cases, you must also concern yourself with generating a database.

Enhancing Web Application Performance with Caching

By Neal Ford

Effective caching strategies can both lower the memory footprint and speed up your application. In this article, Neal Ford shows you how to implement the Flyweight Design Pattern as a caching mechanism on a sample application. He tests the app to measure heap size and garbage collector activity both before and after implementing caching, using a combination of JMeter and the OptimizeIt Profiler.

Dynamic Coupling

By Jeff Schneider

Jeff Schneider discusses the tradeoffs between loosely and tightly coupled components and describes Dynamic Coupling, which involves delaying the assembly interface mechanism decisions to runtime, using an analogy of the 'magic printed circuit board'. He compares 3 differnets kinds of coupling: potential coupling, assembly coupling, and dynamic coupling.

Cayenne and Hibernate

By Bill Dudney

Bill Dudney is writing Hibernate Live!, and he ran across TheServerSide.com article on Cayenne. He decided to take it for a ride, and compare it to an example that he is using in his Hibernate world. Read on for his thoughts on the tools, APIs, and easy of use.

Covert Java

By Moazam Raja

Moazam Raja reviews the newly published book by Alex Kalinosvky, "Covert Java: Techniques for Decompiling, Patching, and Reverse Engineering". Kalinosvky attempts to delve into the backend and internals of Java programs while showing examples readers can use in their own work.

Java Testing and Design

By Bart Thompson

Java Testing and Design, by Frank Cohen, teaches you how to build production-worthy, scalable, and well performing Web-enabled applications. He presents techniques, methodologies, and tools to enable developers, QA technicians, and IT managers to work together to achieve productivity in development and test automation. In this concise review, Bart Thompson walks us through some of the key topics covered in the book.

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Eclipse Foundation Announces Eclipse 3.0
The Eclipse Foundation has pre-announced the availability of the royalty-free 3.0 release of the Eclipse Platform, adding enhancements that improve flexibility, scalability, interoperability and responsiveness. Eclipse RC 3 is now available and the final RC 4 is due by June 30th.

Berkeley DB Java Edition released
Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB, have announced the availability of Berkeley DB Java Edition, a pure Java database based on a write-once, append-only log architecture. Berkeley DB Java Edition is embeddable and built for speed and high concurrency while preserving transactional data integrity.

J2EE 1.4 SDK Update Release 1 Now Available
The J2EE 1.4 SDK Update 1 is now available with several bug fix improvements, the latest J2EE Blueprints, J2SE 1.4.2, and sample code. The J2EE SDK contains the Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8 featuring support for JavaServer Faces and is free for both development and deployment.

Study reports a strong demand for tech workers
Despite a steady rise in the number of IT jobs being outsourced, demand for workers with Internet-related skills such as Java and networking is helping to drive IT compensation higher, according to a report released by Meta Group.

Apache Excalibur: New top level IoC Apache project
The world of the Apache Inversion of Control containers has changed. Apache Excalibur is a new top level project which pulls together both of the Avalon Excalibur and Avalon Fortress projects. This includes two lightweight Inversion of Control containers.

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