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Tales From TheServerSide
 o The JCP Asylum

Articles
 o Object Slicing and Component Design with Java

Tech Talks
 o Ted Neward on: Effective Enterprise Java

Chapters
 o Building Websites with OpenCMS

Blogs
 o Fear and Testing
 o Components, Design, and Functions

Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
 Some key headlines:
 o Cargo Announced: Open source Java API to work with containers
 o TMC Releases SOA Application Development Specification

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The JCP Asylum

Ever wonder what's really happening behind the scenes in the JCP? In the latest TSS cartoon, conceived by Hani Suleiman, see how your favourite JSRs are doing, and why they're taking so long to get out the door.

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Object Slicing and Component Design with Java

By Constantin Gonciulea

Object slicing is defined as the conversion of an object into something with less information (typically a superclass). In C++ it occurs when an object is passed by value and copying the parameter value results in an upcast. This is a bad thing, as it may result in very subtle bugs. Object slicing throws away information. But in some situations this may be exactly what we want.

Ted Neward - Independent consultant, Editor-in-Chief of TheServerSide.NET

Topic: Effective Enterprise Java

TheServerSide chats with Ted Neward, author of "Effective Enterprise Java", about what's in the book and why building effective enterprise Java applications is so hard.

Building Website with OpenCMS

By Matt Butcher

We often have to work with CMS systems. OpenCms is an open source alternative, Packt has given TheServerSide Community a book chapter, and an exclusive article. The article explains the process of extending the functionality of OpenCms using the built-in module mechanism. OpenCms will be extended to provide Apache Velocity template support.

Fear and Testing

By Frank Cohen

Frank talks about fear and how it can derail efforts to find and solve scalability and performance problems. He has seen a lot of fear on his various engagements, and here he talks about why, and how.

Components, Design, and Functions

By Brian McCallister

Brian McCallister has kindly rambled on about IoC, and design in web applications. He discusses what has worked well for him (and others) in the last year.

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Cargo Announced: Open source Java API to work with containers
Vincent Massol talked about the idea of having an API to start, stop, and configure Java containers. This has lead to Cargo, which you can find as part of Codehaus. In addition to the API itself, there are Ant tasks which can be used to access a container in a generic way.

TMC Releases SOA Application Development Specification
TMC has released the SOA Application Development specification, a follow-on to the SOA Blueprints spec TMC co-released with BEA in May. Commissioned by Oracle, the spec's primary intent is to provide a framework for comparison between different development tools/platforms for building service oriented applications.

Apache Geronimo Version 1.0 M2 Released
The second milestone of Apache Geronimo has been released. More of the foundation is now supported, such as: EAR deployment, EJB 2.1 Message Driven beans, and EJB 2.1 Timers. There are also other features such as: Hot deployment of EJB, WAR, and RAR archives, JACC (JSR 115) authorization, and JAAS.

Oracle Makes New TORPEDO Submission; Claims Top Spot
Oracle has made a new TORPEDO submission claiming the best results in the process. The Non-Verified submission was made using Oracle TopLink (POJO) 10.0.3 Developer Preview. This submission eclipses the previous best results held by Hibernate and Kodo.

Spring 1.1 Final Released
The Spring team is pleased to announce that Spring 1.1 final has just been released. Since 1.1 RC2, some API clarifications have happened and a number of bugs have been fixed. There is also a variety of minor new features.

Java 5.0 Release Candidate Available
The first release candidate of Java 5.0 has been released. It seems that people are still not sure about the 5.0 naming scheme as half of the items which display versions show 1.5, and half show 5.0.

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