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Books
 o Free Book Download: Jakarta-Struts Live

New Articles
 o Object Relational Mapping with Cayenne
 o An Introduction to the Drools Project

Tech Talks
 o Scott Ambler on Agile Modeling and Development

Review Chapters
 o Mastering EJB 3rd Edition Book-In-Review

Technical Tips
 o JDBC Functions that Optimize Performance

Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
 Some key headlines:
 o IBM J2EE vs. Microsoft .NET White Paper
 o Politically Charged EJB Decision Hands a Victory to JBoss

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Free Book Download: Jakarta-Struts Live

By Rick Hightower

TheServerSide.com and SourceBeat Publications have teamed up to bring you the entire book of 'Jakarta-Struts Live', by Rick Hightower, in PDF format. The book covers the Struts MVC architecture, how to build each of the Struts components and shows you how to use vital features like Tiles, the Validator, DynaActionForms, plug-ins, and internationalization.

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Object Relational Mapping with Cayenne

By Andrus Adamchik and Eric Schneider

This article presents Cayenne - an open source Object Relational Mapping (ORM) framework. Cayenne is an integrated suite that includes modeling and deployment tools. This article introduces some of Cayenne's features, shows how to quickly create an ORM application and presents a case study of a successful large-scale J2EE project implemented with Cayenne - the NHL.com web site.

An Introduction to the Drools Project

By N. Alex Rupp

N. Alex Rupp introduces a new technology for the Java Enterprise developer's utility belt; he discusses how Rules Engines can improve the agility of your business by helping you isolate the "logic of the bottom line" from the technical logic of your software applications. He looks at the JSR-94 Rules Engine API and introduces an open source implementation called Drools.

Scott Ambler - Senior Consultant, Ronin International

Topic: Agile Modeling and Development

Scott Ambler talks about Agile Modeling and the Agile Development Process. He describes the term 'Generalized Specialist' and addresses the need to lessen the existing divide in projects between DBA's, developers, and enterprise folks. He compares traditional development approaches to the Agile approach and points out some of the problems with Model Driven Development (MDA).

TSS Presents Mastering EJB 3rd Edition Book Review Process

TheServerSide is pleased to announce the book review process for 'Mastering EJB 3rd Edition'. The book is being updated for EJB 2.1 and Web services, and will also include new chapters on security, scheduling, integration, and best practices. Chapters on writing a session bean Web service and EJB security are available for review now.

JDBC Functions that Optimize Performance

By John Goodson

In this JDBC Performance Tip, Part 3 of the JDBC Peformance Series, John Goodson discusses JDBC objects and methods that improve performance. He looks at how to use parameter markers as arguments to stored procedures, the benefits of using the Statement vs. PreparedStatement object, how to reduce network overhead by using the addBatch() method and more.

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AspectWerkz 0.10 released, articles, & Dependency-Oriented
The AspectWerkz team has released a final 0.10 version. They have also written up an article on AspectWerkz and JRockit on dev2dev. We can also get excited about a new buzzword Dependency Oriented Programming, coined after hearing recent examples of how AOP can handle dependencies.

IBM J2EE vs. Microsoft .NET White Paper
A new white paper positioning the IBM J2EE Middleware Platform vs. the Microsoft .NET Platform is now available. IBM released the paper, which they created to show ISVs why they should be working with J2EE (and IBM) rather than Microsoft enterprise technologies.

Politically Charged EJB Decision Hands a Victory to JBoss
The EJB expert group's decision to use Hibernate as the persistence mechanism in EJB 3.0 gives JBoss all the power. David Jordan, a member of the JDO expert group, explains why the JDO community is not just disappointed - but concerned - about a power shift in the app server market.

ASF Announces Geronimo as an Official Project
The Apache Software Foundation has announced that Apache Geronimo is an official project of the ASF. The objective of the Apache Geronimo project is to produce an open source, certified implementation of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specification licensed under the Apache License and offered to the public at no charge.

TMC Terminates Business with JBoss, Inc.
The Middleware Company, operators of TheServerSide Communities, recently terminated business ties with JBoss, Inc. This news post contains TMC's official statement.

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