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 o Servlets and JavaServer Pages: The J2EE Web Tier

J2EE Product Listing
 o New Product Listing from JavaOne 2004

Tech Talks
 o Bruce Tate on EJB 3, Lightweight Containers, AOP

Featured Blogs
 o Don't Let Yourself Get Unitized
 o A Critique of EJB 3

Symposium Videos
 o Onno Kluyt on Communities, Network Computing & Java

Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
 Some key headlines:
 o Microsoft Responds to Sun’s Web Service Benchmarks
 o JBoss Application Server 4 gets J2EE-certified

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Servlets and JavaServer Pages: The J2EE Technology Web Tier

By Jayson Faulkner & Kevin Jones

TheServerSide and DevelopMentor have teamed up to bring you the entire book of 'Servlets and JavaServer Pages - The J2EE Web Tier', By Jayson Faulkner and Kevin Jones. The book looks at what's in the JSP 2.0, Servlet 2.4, and JSTL 1.0 specs, covers state management, design patterns, internationalization support, multi-client design, Java database connectivity and more.

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New Product Listing from JavaOne 2004

TheServerSide has posted the new product listing from JavaOne 2004 which lists the latest products from vendors in the J2EE space that were exhibiting on the show floor, such as M7's NitroX for Struts, Compuware's OptimalJ 3.2, Gigaspaces, etc. The listing provides brief, hype-free descriptions of each vendor's product and what it does.

Bruce Tate - Author Bitter Java, Bitter EJB, Better Faster Lighter Java

Topic: EJB 3, Lightweight Containers, AOP

Bruce Tate talks about EJB 3, praises it for its simplicity and transparency, but expresses concern about container lock-in via annotations. He looks at the advantages of using lightweight containers such as Spring, and stresses that we focus on services, not containers. He also gives his thoughts on the future of AOP, and talks about his new book, 'Better, Faster, Lighter Java'.

Don't Let Yourself Get Unitized

By Mike Spille

Mike Spille has provided his thoughts on the state of unit testing in the Java world today, and comments on recent articles on the topic by Martin Fowler and Cedric Beust. He thinks that too much emphasis is being placed on unit testing and advises that we refocus our energies on more important issues such as design, integration testing, performance and failure/recovery testing, etc.

A Critique of EJB 3

By Hani Suleiman

Hani Suleiman has written critique of the EJB 3 spec; he looks at the gaps and flaws in the draft as it stands currently and zooms in on three areas that he felt needed a lot more thought: Descriptors, the EntityManager, and 'magic' methods.

Onno Kluyt - Director of JCP program at Sun. JINI Marketing Lead

Topic: Communities, Network Computing & Java Technology

Onno reviews the inner workings of Java Communities such as JCP and JINI, how such communities contribute to the direction of the technology and how the JCP may evolve over the coming years. Onno also talks about the emergence of network computing in the enterprise and how J2EE, JINI and other technologies interact and complement one another.

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Microsoft Responds to Sun’s Web Service Benchmarks
In a paper published last month, Sun claimed that Java based web services outperform .NET based web services both in throughput and response times. Microsoft has released a paper on TheServerSide.NET responding to those claims stating that Sun’s representation of the .NET performance was understated by 2 to 3 times and that in many, but not all cases, .NET exceeded the Java benchmarks.

BEA WebLogic Server Process Edition Announced
BEA has released a new edition of their WebLogic Server named BEA WebLogic Server Process Edition. This edition is aimed at putting together the various pieces that BEA has to deliver service enablement, service orchestration and application development from a single integrated development environment.

JBoss Application Server 4 gets J2EE-certified
It was big news when JBoss announced that they were going to certify their application server. It takes a lot of work (and not necessarily fun work at that!) to pass the Compatibility Test Suite for J2EE, but it looks like JBoss has done it.

GigaSpaces Hibernate Cache Plug-in
GigaSpaces Technologies has announced a Hibernate Cache Plug-in that uses the Hibernate API to access the GigaSpaces distributed cache. The plugin features local and remote caches, grid-based architecture, and a parallel processing engine.

JPOX announces 1.0 (JDO 1) and JDO 2 preview releases
Java Persistent Objects JDO (JPOX) is an Open Source implementation of the JDO specification. It is fully compliant with the JDO TCK. It has released its first full release (version 1.0.0 - JDO 1.0.1) together with a preview release containing many features for JDO 2.0 (version 1.1.0-alpha

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