[TheServerSide Newsletter #14]
July 10, 2003 Newsletter Circulation: 130 000+ No. 14


In This Issue


TheServerSide Symposium Coverage
 o Day by Day Coverage of TheServerSide Symposium

Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
 Some key headlines:
 o BEA Releases XMLBeans to open source
 o JBoss 4 DR2 Released with expanded AOP, JDO, JMS Features

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TheServerSide Symposium Coverage


TheServerSide Symposium Coverage
By Jason Carreira, Nitin Bharti, Floyd Marinescu, Abhay Bakshi

This article takes you through many of the technical sessions, panels, and keynotes presented at TheServerSide Symposium. The conference was a gathering of Enterprise Java gurus and a place for developers, architects, and managers to come together and learn more from industry experts. Some highlights of the Symposium included the Open Source Panel, AOP talks by Rod Johnson and Bill Burke, TheServerSide Beer Tent party with a 'Future of J2EE' panel, a J2EE patterns talk by John Crupi, a talk on Agile Modelling by Scott Ambler, and more. Here is a listing of all the sessions, panels, and keynotes that were covered by TSS:

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Links to various Blogs that covered the Symposium have also been provided: Blogs @ TheServerSide Symposium


Key J2EE Industry Headlines

JBoss Server to be embedded in Mac OS X Panther (10.3)

Apple has decided to embed JBoss with the upcoming "Panther" release (v10.3). This is an interesting development, as we have seen other vendors bundle various application servers. For example, Solaris & Sun ONE, HP/DELL & WebLogic, and AIX & WebSphere. Panther will also include Apache products (web server, tomcat, and AXIS).

BEA Releases XMLBeans to open source

BEA has released XMLBeans to the open source community under the Apache-style license. XMLBeans take XML documents, and give developers a Java-based view on the data. These Java classes enable easy read/write access to XML information and enforce XML Schema constraints.

Spring Framework 0.9 Released

The Spring Framework project has announced its first release. Spring is a J2EE framework that came out of Rod Johnson's Expert One-on-One book, and consists of: AOP functionality, Inversion of Control config, Pluggable Data Tier (JDBC abstraction, Hibernate, JDO), TX abstraction layer, Remoting support, and a MVC web app framework.

JBoss 4 DR2 Released with expanded AOP, JDO, JMS Features

JBoss has posted developer release 2 of JBoss 4 which improves over previous releases with more AOP functionality, C# like Metatags, the firt iteration of JDO, and P2P JMS Topics over reliable multicast. An AOP framework that can run separate from the application server is also provided.

eBays J2EE backend serving over 400 million transactions a day

eBay, which used to be implemented as one massive DLL, has been slowly moving over its live site to a J2EE based architecture since late 2001, with over 65% of site traffic being served through J2EE as of June 2002. A new case study takes a high level look at the whole project.

Sun Releases JDK 1.4.2

Sun has released JDK 1.4.2. This release has new features, performance improvements, and over 2400 bug fixes. Some of these include: Class.forName() has been sped up, Itanium support, many hotspot improvements, NTLN auth for windows, AES encryption support in SunJCE, new Swing look and feels, startup time improvements, and many more.

Microsoft Wins Appeal Against Including Java with Windows

A three judge appeals court panel has ruled that Microsoft is not required to ship Java with Windows, saying that the previous ruling was to broad in scope and did not show enough of a threat to Sun. Fortunately, Dell and HP, the top 2 PC makers, have already decided to ship Java on the PCs that they sell. Apple, Red Hat and Lindows have also agreed to include Sun's Java.





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