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IN THIS ISSUE
Hard Core Tech Talks - In Streaming Video
o Inderjeet Singh - J2EE Blueprints Architect, Sun Microsystems
o Steve Benfield - CTO, Silverstream
Featured Technical Articles
o Code Generation Using XML Based Document Transformation
New Application Server Reviews
o Sybase EAServer 4.0 Review
o Oracle 9i + JDeveloper
Enterprise Java Education Strategies
o Split the Difference
o Holiday Java Special
Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
Some key headlines:
o BEA to introduce "Cajun" in 2002
o Rational Software Announces Rational Suite v2002
HARD CORE TECH TALKS
Get leading
edge information on current J2EE issues and trends from those who
know it best, the gurus and grandmasters, in Hard Core Tech Talks!
Videos Hosted on HostJ2EE.com.
Featured this week is Steve Benfield, a longtime proponent of EJB who currently leads the
Web Services initiative at Silversteam.
Inderjeet Singh - J2EE Blueprints Architect, Sun Microsystems
Inderjeet will talk about the J2EE Blueprints, where to store state (the database, servlet, client, or EJB layer),
and the relationship between the MVC architecture and J2EE applications.
Steve Benfield - CTO, Silverstream
In this interview, Steve discusses Web Services and explains the roles of WSDL,
UDDI, SOAP, and XML. He also describes how J2EE fits in with Web Services, from a development and archtitectural
perspective.
Schedule of Upcoming Video Interviews:
- Craig Russell - JDO Specification Lead, Sun Microsystems
- Cedric Beust - BEA Weblogic Container Architect
Check out Hard Core Tech Talks
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FEATURED TECHNICAL ARTICLES
Code Generation Using XML Based Document Transformation
By Soumen Sarkar & Craig Cleaveland
With recent interest in XML standards and availability of tools supporting these standards, it has become possible to
generate multiple types of documents by applying XML document transformation technology. Using XML document
transformation technology, it has become easier to develop custom code/document generators in application development
projects.
An EJB framework created a very powerful paradigm of server side infrastructure development in a real world project
described in this paper. The project had a tremendous
lead by being able to build further on this sophisticated server side infrastructure rather than spending time on
building the infrastructure itself. The project was totally focused on building application logic and delivering
functionality.
Read the article here
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NEW APPLICATION SERVER REVIEWS
Oracle 9i + JDeveloper
By n n
I've been using Oracle 9i + JDeveloper for the past 4 months and I must say it is an incredible product. I've programmed before in
perl, visual C++, borland c++, delphi, powerbuilder, matlab, etc. And some tools are a pleasure to work with and some aren't. With my
ntier experience and a sun certified architect I've developed in weblogic, websphere and Oracle 9i with current versions and the one
product that out shined the others was Oracle 9i + JDeveloper. I was surprised how fast and robust it was.
Read the rest of the review here.
Sybase EAServer 4.0 Review
By Anil Dhiman
EAservers's EJB2.0 compliance and its ability to run non-Java CORBA, EJB or COM components side by side, pooling of Stateful
session bean , entity bean Caching and hot deployment prove to be its major attractions. I 'd like to share some of the characterstics
which I experienced while working on EAServer 4.0 developers version One. Some of the interesting points about this download is that
it has all the features (that is multiple component models support, 2pc etc) for 5 IIOP connection.This allowed one to experience a
hetrogenous development environment
Read the rest of the review here.
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KEY J2EE INDUSTRY HEADLINES
Sun posts the Java XML (JAX) Pack
The first Java XML Pack Bundle is available for download. This release includes Java API for XML Messaging
(JAXM) and Java API for XML Processing (JAXP). Future releases will include additional Java APIs and Architectures
for XML technologies.
Click here to
read more.
BEA to introduce "Cajun" in 2002
BEA has announced plans to introduce a new product in 2002 called Cajun, a new software tool that will enable
less sophisticated developers, perhaps with 20 or 40 hours of training, to build relatively inexpensive,
non-mission critical programs that can automate work specific to a department or individual.
Click here to
read more.
A J2EE Developers Perspective on Surviving the Job Crunch
This first person account of a field soldier who was recently at the battlefront of the job market and made
it back to saftey. Hear long time TheServerSide member and J2EE architect/developer Gene Chuang discuss his
exploits and advice to fellow java developers facing similar adversity.
Click here to
read more.
Recap of recent IBM development tools announcements
On 11/5 IBM annouced its donation of $40 million WebSphere Studio Workbench to open sourced 'Eclipse', an
IDE base upon which other tool vendors could build (modeling, testing, tuning, etc). Also announced on 11/7 was
IBM's own J2EE/WebService development tool ontop, WSAD (WebSphere Studio Application Developer) 4.0 for
Windows. Package release is due 11/21.
Click here to
read more.
Rational Software Announces Rational Suite v2002
Rational Software has announced the release of Rational Suite v2002. Rational Rose v2002 provides the
ability to deploy Java and J2EE applications directly from Rational Rose to leading J2EE application servers.
The Rational Unified Process includes detailed J2EE development advice, as well as new integration with the HP
Bluestone J2EE app. server.
Click here to
read more.
Persistence to Offer Distributed Cache for J2EE AppServers
Persistence Software has announced plans to add a new product 'EdgeXtend' to their suite. EdgeXtend is a
complimentary software module for J2EE application servers, and is based on Persistence's unique distributed
dynamic caching technology. Like Gemstone, Persistence will soon be offering their advanced distributed cache
and O/R mapping capabilities on other app. servers, integrated via JCA.
Click here to
read more.
Borland Announces Borland Software Platform for J2EE
Borland has announced the Borland Software Platform for J2EE, both a rebundling of existing
products and a launching of new versions of products. The platform consists of Borland Enterprise Studio
for Java, Borland JBuilder IDE, Borland Enterprise Server in Web, VisiBroker and AppServer editions.
Borland Enterprise Server supports J2EE 1.3, including EJB 2.0.
Click here to
read more.
HP Launches New App. Server and Web Services Offerings
HP has rolled out a whole suite of new application server and web services offerings, bringing it closer to
offerings from other vendors. The offering consist of the free HP Application Server 8 (a J2EE compliant, totally
re-written version of the older Bluestone server), HPMS (HP's JMS server), a process manager interaction product, a
UDDI registry, and a Web Services transactioning product based on BTP.
Click here to
read more.
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