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Featured this week is a major figurehead in the open source J2EE community, Rickard Oberg, the main architect/developer behind the JBoss
open source J2EE server, and also the author of Mastering RMI.
In this, the second interview, Rickard discusses presentation layer frameworks, XML, RMI, J2EE project management best practices,
building a J2EE build system, and the nature and future of open source in our industry. Rickard is the ultimate hard-core developer.
Schedule of Upcoming Video Interviews:
- Steve Benfield - CTO, Silverstream Software - Nov. 5th
- Craig Russel - JDO Spec Lead
- Inderjeet Singh - J2EE Blueprints Architect
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Nov 20, New York
The 2001 XML on Wall Street event, a full conference will explore how XML is being used to support initiatives such
as online trading, STP and risk management, as well as how Web Services are evolving in the financial services
marketplace. The conference program features presentations from Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, W3C, Microsoft,
Reuters, Netik, IBM, BlueMatrix, SunGard, PricwaterhouseCoopers, ISO WG10 and TransactTools.
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HP gives away Bluestone J2EE Server for free
The days of high priced base J2EE servers may be coming to an end. HP has announced that they are giving the
Bluestone J2EE Server for free. HP plans to make make money by selling extra software on top of the base J2EE
server.
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Java Petstore version 1.3 released with JMS, EJB CMP 2.0
Version 1.3 of the Java Petstore has been released. This new version brings major changes and improvements, including a
conversion of almost all entity beans to CMP 2.0 with local interfaces, use of JMS and Message driven beans for the
mailer component, filters, JFC/Swing clients deployed through Java Web Start, and Java APIs for XML.
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ObjectFrontier releases its new version of FrontierSuite
ObjectFrontier has made available its latest version of FrontierSuite. FrontierSuite is a powerful JCA compliant
persistence engine and a Model Driven Architecture (MDA) based platform for designing, developing and deploying both
Java and J2EE applications. FrontierSuite for J2EE platform supports both EJB 1.1 and EJB 2.0.
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Announcing EJBCreator 0.3
EJBCreator 0.3 was released Nov 1. EJBCreator is a GUI-based tool that generates source code skeletons
for EJB 2.0 beans, value ojbects, primary keys, ejb-jar.xml files and even Ant build files.
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Gosling bursts the Web services bubble
James Gosling hits out at SOAP stating "SOAP is an overhyped rehash of RPC that will evolve into a semichaotic system
of integrated services". What? Web Services are not the answer to every problem in computing?
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SAP chooses J2EE over .Net
SAP, Europe's biggest software group, has decided not to use Microsoft's .Net software platform and is instead planning
to adopt Sun's J2EE architecture. SAP's move is likely to be a blow to Microsoft, as the German group has one of the
largest customer bases of any business software developer.
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Borland releases ECperf benchmarking kit for Borland AppServer
In a courageous move, Borland has published a kit for testing the Borland AppServer with ECperf 1.0. The kit is being
provided for customers to test the performance and scalability of Borland AppServer for themselves. Borland's official
ECperf results will be posted here on TheServerSide in Q4.
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Sun to bundle iPlanet App. Server on Solaris, free Dev. Licenses
Sun has reversed itself- remember in March of this year there was a rumor that this would happen and Sun denied it. Now it seems it was
true after all. What will this mean for BEA, who runs mostly on Solaris? Will the BEA/Intel partnership lead to more usage of WebLogic
on Linux? Will developers adopt iPlanet more widely if it is bundled with Solaris?
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Microsoft claims.NET version of Java Petstore is superior
Microsoft has released a .NET implementation of the famous Java Petstore application, claiming that the .NET version implements the same
features in 1/3rd the codebase and up to 28 times faster than the J2EE counterpart. Lies, Damned lies and benchmarks?
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Will .Net take down Java in 2002?
According to survey by ComponentSource, based on more than 150,000 responses from developers that use ComponentSource, 79 percent of
organizations are evaluating or planning to evaluate .Net components in the next year, while only 14 percent are evaluating or planning
to evaluate EJB within the same timeframe.
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