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Featured Technical Articles
o Requirements for Building Industrial Strength Web Services: The Service Broker
Enterprise Java Education Strategies
o Advanced Enterprise Java Events: We Build Experts.
Shape the Next Set of Definitive J2EE Books
o Mastering EJB II
o EJB Design Patterns
Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
FEATURED TECHNICAL ARTICLES
Requirements for Building Industrial Strength Web Services: The Service Broker
By Billy Newport, EJB Consultant
Anybody who thinks that buying an application server (such as WebSphere or WebLogic), combined with a Web Services toolkit (like GLUE, as good as it is in this role), is sufficient for building Web Services is simply not seeing the big picture. The intent of this article is to help you cut through the hype and understand the requirements of real world Web Services by describing the Service Broker, a fundamental new type of Middleware platform that will be used to build enterprise-scale Web Services. A Service Broker is similar to a message broker but is much more flexible. It is used to make a company’s services work together and to provide a simplified interface to external systems using a variety of middleware (Corba/IIOP, Messaging, SOAP, Web Services). Companies interested in setting up Web Services will likely use a Service Broker as the backend to their Web Services protocol interfaces (UDDI, SOAP).
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ENTERPRISE JAVA EDUCATION STRATEGIES
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SHAPE THE NEXT SET OF DEFINITIVE J2EE BOOKS
TheServerSide.com is hosting two new J2EE book projects: Mastering EJB II, and EJB Design Patterns. Chapters from these two new books will be posted to TSS as they are written for public feedback. For the first time ever you will be able to directly participate in the writing of these two influential books and personally influence thousands of developers who will learn from them.
How you can help
Chapters will be posted in Microsoft Word format. To review a chapter, simply type your additions/comments/corrections directly into the word document and mail it back to the authors. The word documents will be shipped with Track Changes set to on inorder for your comments to be integrated with the chapter. All emails to the authors other than these documents may be discarded.
Latest Public Review Postings:
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- July 4th - EJB 2.0 Business Interface. 1st public review posting.
- June 25th - Value Object Factory. 2nd public review posting.
- June 25th - JDBC and Rowsets for Reading The 2nd public review posting.
- June 25th - Generic Attribute Access The 2nd public review posting.
- June 25th - Message Facade The 2nd public review posting.
- June 25th - Session Facade The 3rd public review posting.
KEY J2EE INDUSTRY HEADLINES
Web services a doomed fad of 2001?
"Web services, like all other technical fads before it, do make sense in some situations. No doubt some remote services, such as credit card processing and tax calculation, will do quite well, but that's nowhere close to fulfilling the marketing hype around this concept", writes Object Technology Guru and Mastering EJB II co-author Scott Ambler, in a new article.
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Sun releases COM to EJB bridge, early access release
The J2EE Client Access Services (J2EE CAS) COM Bridge lets Windows developers create native client applications that access EJB components deployed on any J2EE application server.
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WebSphere Application Server v4 (Single Server option) is out
WebSphere v4 is available for download (NT/2000 and Redhat). It's free for development use and IBM isn't releasing this option for V.4 to the general public until next week. Also included is 60-day free access to the online support.
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Making sense of J2EE packaging mechanisms
J2EE packaging mechanisms such as the War, Jar and EAR file are a basic yet very misunderstood feature of the J2EE development process. A new article by Tyler Jewell discusses some of the nuances associated with J2EE packaging and provides some hints to make you more productive.
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Latest Sybase database release includes built in EJB container
This week Sybase released the latest version (v12.5) its Adaptive Server Enterprise database. This new version features direct XML persistence (as opposed to storing as BLOBS), an entity bean container that runs in the database, and the integration of the file system with the database.
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UDDI's Problem: Technology Cannot Replace Relationships
UDDI will be the building block that enables companies to quickly, easily and dynamically find and transact business with one another, according to its backers, which include Ariba, IBM, Microsoft and about 200 other software companies. The problem is that in many cases, organizations will be reluctant to use this new functionality, especially in the brick-and-mortar world.
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Is BEA Systems digging itself into a hole?
"BEA Systems might be the smartest company in the world, but it's going to have to do some justifying this year. That's because it's now facing the big guns, which are heavily armed.", says ZDNet columnist John Taschek. In a recent article, John goes onto imply that BEA has been extremely lucky, but its current strategy could be bringing impending doom.
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Microsoft releases Visual Studio .NET and .NET Framework beta 2
Microsoft has released the beta 2 versions of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET. The .NET Framework is everything a developer needs to run .NET applications, including the common language runtime, class libraries, and ASP.NET. Visual Studio .NET provides a development environment for building XML Web services and applications on the .NET Framework.
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Oracle and Sun announce J2EE migration kit for Microsoft
Oracle and Sun have announced tools and services aimed at luring server side Microsoft developers to the J2EE platform. The essence of the initiative is to convert proprietary Microsoft applications into 'less proprietary' J2EE-based applications running on Sun Solaris, Oracle app. server and the Oracle database.
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Iona annouces major new releases, platform & technology support
IONA made several important announcements at this years Java One, including the release of iPortal Application Server 3.0, significant pricing changes, release of the IONA B2B Integrator 4.2, IONA Enterprise Integrator 3.0, support for JMS in their Web Services platform: XMLBus, a technology preview of IONA iPortal Application Server on OS/390 and more.
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