[TheServerSide Newsletter #29]
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IN THIS ISSUE


New Books
 o EJB Design Patterns Book Now Available

Featured Technical Articles
 o Securing Web Services with Single Sign-On

Hard Core Tech Talks
 o Gary Baney - CTO Flashline

Enterprise Java Education Strategies
 o Do the managers at your company understand the J2EE buzzwords?

Upcoming Conferences
 o SD Software Development Conference & Expo

New J2EE Patterns
 o JAXB/XML Value Object Design Pattern

Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
 Some key headlines:
 o ECperf 1.1 released, ECperf to become SpecJAppServer2001
 o BEA takes the performance lead with new ECPerf results

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NEW BOOKS


EJB Design Patterns Book Now Available
By Floyd Marinescu

I am happy to announce that my book 'EJB Design Patterns' is now shipping! The book was written and reviewed here on TheServerSide - thank you TSS members for having made my book possible! EJB Design Patterns is unlike other patterns books in that it goes beyond high-level pattern descriptions into critical EJB-specific implementation issues. The free PDF will also be available shortly.

Sincerely,
Floyd Marinescu

Get more info here


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FEATURED TECHNICAL ARTICLES


Securing Web Services with Single Sign-On
By Zdenek Svoboda

In this part of the Web services tutorial we will learn how to secure applications with a single sign-on utlility. We will introduce the simple scenario where the client gets the authentication token from the SSO service and appends it to the outcoming request. The receiving party can validate the incoming token by calling the SSO service. We will also shown how SAML, the standard format for the security information exchange, can enhance the SSO architecture.

Read the article here


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UPCOMING 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 Gary Baney, who will talk about J2EE and the component architecture.

Gary Baney - CTO Flashline

In this interview, Gary Baney talks about the evolution of the component architecture and the top barriers to component development; he also discusses how J2EE components should be architected and how to delineate the component interface from the JSP/Servlet presentation layer.



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ENTERPRISE JAVA EDUCATION STRATEGIES


Do the managers at your company understand the J2EE buzzwords well enough to have intelligent conversations?

Most developers and managers have very poor communication. Often times it's because the manager is not familiar with the techno-babble that developers use, such as J2EE, load-balancing, weblogic, XML, JSP, taglibs, and more. Well, that doesn't have to be true anymore! Introducing ENTERPRISE JAVA FOR MANAGERS, a 2-day course that your manager can take to learn the lingo! This course is offered exclusively by The Middleware Company, and can be held at your site (for a bunch of managers to take at once) or your managers can come to us to take it. Do your manager a favor--forward this email to them, and encourage them to visit http://www.middleware-company.com , contact sales@middleware-company.com , or call toll-free +1 (877) 866-JAVA for more details. Do it now while it's fresh on your mind!


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UPCOMING CONFERENCES




April 22 - 26, San Jose

The SD Software Development Conference & Expo is a 5 day show that will feature over 180 classes & tutorials on J2EE, .NET, XML, Web Services and more. The show features some very cool J2EE talks including:

Visit: www.sdexpo.com to register. TheServerSide members can use code 2WSPON to save $300!


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NEW J2EE PATTERNS


JAXB/XML Value Object Design Pattern
By Elika Kohen

This design pattern allows the client layer (JSP, Servlet, etc) to easily extract XML data from a JDO object or Entity Bean; however, Specification support is not currently in place.

Read more on this pattern.


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 This newsletter sponsored in part by HP
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With its revolutionary service-oriented architecture, Hewlett-Packard Application Server 8.0 (HP-AS) represents a generational leap in the J2EE application server market. HP-AS includes standards-based Core Services Framework, J2EE 1.3 support, developer tools, optimized load balancing, comprehensive trailmaps and more. Download HP-AS Free.

KEY J2EE INDUSTRY HEADLINES

J2EE and .NET Interoperability without Web Services?

A little known aspect of Microsoft's .NET framework is its support for a binary wire protocol called .NET remoting. Ja.NET, a newly released product from Intrinsyc Software talks to the protocol from Java, meaning that Java objects including EJBs can now seamlessly interact with the .NET framework. Given this 'on the wire' interoperability, who needs Web Services?

Click here to read more.

JBoss Group Announces first JMX Book On The Market

Managing J2EE with Java(tm) Management Extensions, written by Juha Lindfors, with help from Marc Fleury and others from JBoss Group is available at Amazon.com and your local book store.

Click here to read more.

ECperf 1.1 released, ECperf to become SpecJAppServer2001

In a major news item, the ECperf 1.1 public draft has been released. The major changes in this draft include the requirement that transactions be consistent (many vendors were running without transactions as a way to get better performance), as well as the announcement that ECperf 1.1 will be repackaged as SPECjAppServer2001, and administered by SPEC.

Click here to read more.

BEA/HP turn it up another notch with new ECperf results

In another HP sponsored ECperf posting, BEA Weblogic Server 7.0 beta results have been posted that beat both IBM's results and BEA's last published results on the HP LT6000r U3 system. The reason for the performance and price/performance boost: Using the Weblogic JDriver instead of Oracle's JDBC driver.

Click here to read more.

BEA launches WebLogic 7.0 Beta, Weblogic Workshop, Dev2Dev

BEA has announced J2EE 1.3 certified Weblogic Server version 7 beta, a new IBM DeveloperWorks-style developer portal called dev2dev.bea.com, and Weblogic Workshop: a new visual-basic style tool for building J2EE apps (formerly known as Cajun).

Click here to read more.

BEA takes the performance lead with new ECPerf results

In an HP sponsored ECperf posting, BEA Weblogic Server 7.0 beta has leaped ahead of IBM Websphere in both performance and price/performance metrics. Also in recent news, Sun has withdrawn the original Sun/Borland ECperf result last week.

Click here to read more.

Sun announces iPlanet Application Server 6.5

Sun Microsystems has announced that iPlanet Application Server 6.5, will be available in March, featuring a new, pre-built J2EE application component framework, and Web Services support. The server will also be bundled with iPlanet Message Queue, Directory Server, with tight integration with Forte 3. Suns announcement did not discuss the what API support v6.5 will have.

Click here to read more.

Gemstone offers Facets Distributed Cache integrated with JBoss

Gemstone is offering a free non-commercial download of its Facets 1.1 distributed object cache integrated with the JBoss application server. A free download of Facets for JBoss is available. What do we call them together now? GemBoss?

Click here to read more.



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