TheServerSide.com Newsletter #23

TheServerSide.com Connection newsletter keeps you up-to-date on the most important J2EE industry news and issues emerging on The ServerSide.com. More, it delivers to your screen exclusive J2EE articles and advanced topics not available on any other enterprise java site or publication. This newsletter is transmitted bi-weekly. It is printer-friendly and available online

IN THIS ISSUE

Featured Technical Articles
o How JAAS enables use of custom security repositories with
J2EE applications

Upcoming Conferences
o Enterprise Java for Managers

New J2EE Patterns
o XML Aware Value Objects

Enterprise Java Education Strategies
o Enterprise Java for WebSphere
o Holiday Java Special

Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
Some key headlines:
o Borland announces JBuilder 6 with new EJB design features
o IBM & BEA to market Persistence EdgeXtend for distributed cache

FEATURED TECHNICAL ARTICLES

How JAAS enables use of custom security repositories with J2EE applications

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J2EE application servers that implement JAAS provide enterprise application developers with the standard Login Module API for tapping custom or legacy security systems from their applications. The standards-based LoginModule interface gives J2EE developers the freedom to tap a variety of information sources that use Java Database Connectivity, the lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP), or Shared File Systems to store authentication data , without requiring them to modify the application code. This tutorial describes how a developer can write a custom JAAS LoginModule for using an LDAP authentication data store along with a Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application.
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES

Jan 7 - 8, San Francisco

Java for Managers empowers managers with the ability to understand enterprise Java technologies, at both the business and technical level. This information can be harnessed to make better decisions on projects, to communicate better with developers, to keep current with the industry, or to lead projects to successful and timely completion. Java for Managers also addresses the tough and most important real-world business and technical issues facing managers, such as J2EE project management, and choosing tools and technologies.
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NEW J2EE PATTERNS

XML Aware Value Objects
By Noam Borovoy

Our problem is mapping our legacy database schema to XML in a maintainable way, allowing for easy handling of future changes to the schema of either database or XML. This pattern creates self contained value objects where all of the mapping code is located where it logically "belongs" - within the object - where the properties are kept.
Read the rest of the review here.

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ENTERPRISE JAVA EDUCATION STRATEGIES

Enterprise Java for WebSphere

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KEY J2EE INDUSTRY HEADLINES

IBM, Microsoft Discover Web Services

Continuing their long tradition of cooperating on emerging technologies, archcompetitors IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are pushing SOAP and UDDI further with their newly announced Web Services Inspection specification, which is currently supported only by the two companies.
Click here to read more.

IBM's Software Donation: Move To Eclipse NetBeans?

With a software donation to the open-source community, IBM Corp. last month launched the Eclipse Project, whose charter is to give developers a platform for integrating any of the application and middleware development tools they use together into a single IDE. But the move has sparked controversy among Sun, who say that IBM is ignoring the efforts of NetBeans, a similar project started by Sun in 1996.
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Borland announces JBuilder 6 with new EJB design features

Borland has announced the availability of Borland JBuilder 6. JBuilder 6 features new visual EJB designers, support for methodologies such as extreme programming, code deployment into J2EE servers from Borland, BEA, IBM, Websphere and IPlanet, and EJB UML support.
Click here to read more.

JRockit 3.0 server-side JVM released

Version 3.0 of the JRockit Virtual Machine for Java has been released. JRockit is a family of certified Java Virtual Machines that are specially designed for server-side Java (J2EE) applications. Version 3 brings many notable features including Concurrent Garbage Collection, which eliminates pauses even on gigabyte-size heaps.
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Oracle claims PetStore runs twice as fast on Oracle vs IBM, BEA

A recent Oracle-run benchmark pitted the three application servers against each other on Sun Microsystem's Java Pet Store Demo to test the average response time of each server with 600 users. The result was Oracle 9iAS running twice as fast as Weblogic or Websphere.
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IBM & BEA to market Persistence EdgeXtend for distributed cache

Next June, both IBM and BEA will be co-marketing Persistence's EdgeXtend module for their J2EE servers. Why does this matter? Because the EdgeXtend product itself is worth a close look. EdgeXtend will provide a distributed cache that will save companies from needing to replicate their database across deployments of an application.
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Sonic Software's JMS now works with Weblogic and Websphere

Progress Software subsidiary Sonic Software has tailored its specialised Java Messaging Service (JMS) product, SonicMQ 4.0, for BEA's Weblogic application server, offering better fault-tolerance and reliability than Weblogic's own JMS implementation, according to the firm. SonicMQ can now integrate with the two best-selling enterprise application servers: IBM's WebSphere and BEA's WebLogic.
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JBoss 3.0 alpha has been released

JBoss 3.0 alpha has been released. It provides support for EJB clustering, CMP 2.0 (from EJB 2.0), JAXP 1.1, and custom socket factories that enable encryption and compression of client/server communication. There are enough reasons to download it and give it a go when you look at what they've achieved.
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