BEA eWorld 2002 will feature over 125 technical sessions, including new Extreme Tech sessions; a look inside (and your very own beta copy of) BEA’s forthcoming
"e;Cajun"e; technology for rapidly building enterprise-class web services; demonstrations of the latest BEA and partner
products; keynotes from industry leaders such as Sun, Intel and BEA; birds-of-a-feather discussions; book signings
with some of the leading Java and BEA authors, and an exhibit hall showcasing more than 150 companies.
Don't miss the Keynote by Ed Roman and Floyd Marinescu's talk An Architects Guide to EJB Design Patterns.
Members of TheServerSide can get a $200 discount by using promotional code “USER-JAVAUG” when you register at
http://www.bea.com/events/eworld/2002/.
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Lone Star Software Symposium 2002
March 1-3, 2002
Austin, Texas
A three day J2EE/XML/Web Services conference for Java developers, Architects and Managers with over forty presentations
to select from. Keynote speaker Ed Roman of the Middleware Company and author of the best seller,
"Mastering Enterprise Java Beans", will be presenting a talk titled "Starting your J2EE project off on the right foot".
This show promises to be a developer's treat, their credo is no fluff, just stuff.
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Japple: New Open Source Web Application Development Environment
Japple is an open source, rapid application development environment for building web applications and services. Built
on the J2EE and open-standards, Japple provides a pre-built framework, template-based JSP approach, and more.
Click here to read more.
Announcing Hibernate, Object/Relational Persistence Layer
Hibernate is a free (LGPL) object/relational persistence and query mechanism that lets you develop persistent objects
following common Java idioms, including association, inheritence, polymorphism, composition and the Java collections
framework. No code generation or bytecode processing is required. Instead, runtime reflection is used.
Click here to read more.
Intel and HP Back Open Source Version of .NET
Computing heavyweights Intel and Hewlett-Packard have said they will lend support to an effort to create an open-source
version of Microsoft's .NET initiative, called Mono, which aims to develop a version of the .NET programming
environment that runs on Linux and UNIX. If this project is successful, J2EE will lose the cross-platform advantage
it always had over .NET.
Click here to read more.
BEA releases J2EE 1.3 Certified WebLogic Server 7.0 Preview
On Jan 29th, BEA made available a downloadable preview technology release of the J2EE 1.3 certified WebLogic 7.0.
The full details about the product will be (including its GA release date) are to be released at this years BEA eWorld
on Feb 24th.
Click here to read more.
Borland and Silverstream achieve J2EE 1.3 Compatibility
In two separate announcements, Borland and Silverstream have announced J2EE 1.3 certified products. Borland's Enterprise
Application Server is now certified, and Silverstream has announced compatibility for both its AppServer and the products
that comprise the SilverStream eXtend product suite. Silverstream and Borland join IBM, Macromedia, Pramati, Trifork,
and Sybase as vendors with 1.3 compatible J2EE Servers.
Click here to read more.
Announcing LowRoad 4, EJB/Struts Code Generator
LowRoad v4.01 is a code generator that automatically creates EJBs and deployment descriptors, value objects, data
access layers, as well as a complete Struts-based data driven website, and more. The LowRoad is a developers code
generator, aiming to help automate development while not dumbing down the architecture by hiding the details.
Click here to read more.
Macromedia JRun 4 Gets J2EE 1.3 Certification
Macromedia has announced that Macromedia JRun, has successfully passed Sun's J2EE 1.3 test suite. Along with
J2EE 1.3 compliance, the beta has JINI-based object clustering, JMX administration, an an app. that allows Flash
Movies to talk to EJBs and JMX and other Java objects on the server.
Click here to read more.
IBM to rebuild Lotus family of software on J2EE
IBM's Lotus Software unit is retooling its family of e-mail, messaging and collaboration software with a big dose of Java.
At its annual Lotusphere developer's conference this week, Lotus will announce plans to rebuild its technology to conform
to Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE).
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Halcyon allows .NET apps to run on any Java platform
Halcyon Software has released the first beta version of its Instant .Net (iNet), a plug-in for Microsoft's Visual
Studio .Net developer, that converts .Net applications into Java and allows these services to be hosted on any server
software that supports Java. The product converts .NET IL (intermediate language) into Java Bytcode, and provides java
implementations of the .NET class libraries.
Click here to read more.
Java 2 SDK Standard Edition 1.4 Release Candidate Available
J2SE 1.4 has reached Release Candidate status and is available for download. With all sorts of goodies
including JDBC 3.0, assertions, logging APIs, enhancements to RMI, serialization, CORBA, JNDI, security,
new IO APIs and more. It's good to see this approaching availability.
Click here to read more.
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Rational XDE Is Here – Developing Java Software Will Never Be The Same
