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New Article
 o Redirect After Get

New Chapter
 o Patterns of Enterprise Business Solutions

Featured Blogs
 o JDK 1.5 from Joshua and Neal
 o Using Hibernate3 as a JDBC Framework

Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
 Some key headlines:
 o TMC Releases J2EE Appserver Marketshare Research Report
 o OpenSymphony releases WebWork 2.1.1

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Redirect After Get

By Michael Jouravlev

All interactive programs provide two basic functions: obtaining user input and displaying the results. Web applications implement this behavior using two HTTP methods: POST and GET respectively. This simple protocol gets broken when application returns web page in response to POST request. Peculiarities of POST method combined with idiosyncrasies of different browsers often lead to unpleasant user experience and may produce incorrect state of server application. This article shows how to design a well-behaved web application using redirection.

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Patterns of Enterprise Business Solutions

By Vaughn Vernon

Vaughn Vernon presents a higher order of software pattern--the Enterprise Business Pattern. Enterprise Business Patterns consume design, architecture, and integration patterns in large quantities. They define the essence of large, complex, industry-standard, product-based solutions.

JDK 1.5 from Joshua and Neal

By Matt Raible

Matt Raible went to the Denver JUG meeting with Neal Gafter, and Joshua Bloch. They discussed the new features of Java 5, and Matt details the features, and when to use them.

Using Hibernate3 as a JDBC Framework

By Gavin King

The Spring guys often talk about when ORM can be overkill, and when simpler frameworks like iBATIS can come into play. Gavin King discusses how Hibernate itself can be used as a JDBC framework

TMC Releases J2EE Appserver Marketshare Research Report
TMC has released the results of a Sun-sponsored J2EE Application Server research report that measures market share by use in production and hands-on experience. The results paint a very different picture of the industry with BEA in a comfortable lead over IBM in production, Tomcat/Jetty leading in development, and Sun (including J2EE RI) leading in hands-on experience.

OpenSymphony releases WebWork 2.1.1
The OpenSymphony group is proud to announce the release of WebWork 2.1.1. This release mostly fixes bugs that popped up in 2.1 as well as a couple new features. With the release of 2.1.1, the 2.1.x product line is stable and solid. We encourage those using older versions (1.x and 2.0) to try out 2.1.1.

MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 3.8 Released
MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench, version 3.8 GA for Eclipse 3.0, is now available for download at the MyEclipse website. Key new features include all new source editors with advanced features, visual HTML and Struts RAD development tools, integrated database management tools and Hibernate O/R tools.

Jakarta HiveMind 1.0-rc-1 Released
The first release candidate for HiveMind 1.0 is now available. The controversial Simple Data Language has been removed; HiveMind configuration is back to pure XML, and efforts have been made to streamline the content of the XML.

NetBeans 4.0 Beta 1 Released
The NetBeans(tm) team is proud to announce that the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 4.0 Beta 1 is now available. The NetBeans IDE provides a pure Java(tm) technology development environment for Windows, Linux, the Solaris(tm) Operating System and Mac OS X.

SpringFramework.com: Spring goes professional
The Spring Framework is a very popular open source, pragmatic Java framework. Now there is a company behind the technology, as springframework.com has been announced. The founding members include Rod Johnson, Juergen Hoeller, and Bruce Tate. The group will be offering a variety of services around the technology.

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