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New ECperf Results
o Oracle, BEA, IBM, Sybase Post New ECperf Results
Hard Core Tech Talks
o Simon Pepper - Product Director, IONA Orbix E2A
Bitter Java PDF
o Bitter Java Free PDF Available for Download
Featured Column
o Monson-Haefel's Guide to Enterprise JavaBeans: What's New in EJB 2.1
New Public Review Book Chapters
o Struts Chapter 20: Packaging your Struts Application
o Struts Chapter 11: Using the Struts Validator
o JMX In Action Chapter 3: Building a foundation
o JMX In Action Chapter 11: Working with the relation service
Enterprise Java Education Strategies
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New App Server Reviews
o ATG and MVC
Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
Some key headlines:
o U.S. Office of Management and Budget ranks J2EE above .NET
o Eclipse 2.0 IDE Platform Released
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NEW ECPERF RESULTS
ECperf Explosion: 9 New Results Posted
ECperf has exploded with nine new results from the following companies: Sybase, Oracle, BEA, and IBM. Highlights from these results include Oracle's new record breaking Performance figure of 61862.77 BBops/min@Std and a Price/Performance figure of $5/BBops. Newcomer Sybase posted a Price/Performance figure of $6/BBops.
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NEW 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 Simon Pepper, who talks about Corba and Web Services.
Simon Pepper Product Director, IONA Orbix E2A
In this interview, Simon talks about Corba and web services, why the industry is moving towards web services, and attributes of real world web services platforms; he also discusses how J2EE standards such as transactions and security are shaping web services, and looks at IONA's legacy in Corba and their move into the realm of web services.
Click here to watch Simon Pepper's Video Interview
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MANNING PDF
Bitter Java Free PDF Available for Download
By Bruce Tate
Now you can get the free PDF download for Bitter Java! TheServerSide.com and Manning Publications have partnered to offer this exclusive opportunity to TheServerSide.com members.
It is a well-known fact that most software projects fail. Drawing important lessons from failure is the goal of Bitter Java, a systematic account of common server-side Java programming mistakes, their causes and solutions. Reusing design patterns is not enough for success: patterns are like partial maps of dangerous terrain. They help but don't prevent you from getting lost.
Download Bitter Java
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FEATURED COLUMN
Monson-Haefel's Guide to Enterprise JavaBeans: What's New in EJB 2.1
By Richard Monson-Haefel
This first installment of Richard Monson-Haefel's "Guide to Enterprise JavaBeans" will provide an overview of the new features in the EJB 2.1 spec, including support for Web Services through two newly added Web Services APIs: JAX-RPC and JAXM. This first column also discusses enhancements to the MDB programming model and improvements to EJB QL. The author, as a member of the EJB 2.1 expert group, also provides some recommended improvements to the EJB 2.1 spec such as support for autogenerated primary keys, and timer support for message-driven beans.
Read the column here
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NEW BOOK CHAPTERS FOR PUBLIC REVIEW
TheServerSide is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a book review process for Manning's "JMX In Action", by Ben Sullins and Mark Whipple and also an upcoming O'Reilly book on Struts, by Chuck Cavaness. Chapters from these books will be posted to TSS as they are written for public feedback.
Struts Chapter 20 - Packaging your Struts Application
First Public Review PostingChapter 20 discusses the best practices for packaging and deploying a Struts application, and what it takes to automate the build process for your environment. Special coverage will be given to Ant, the Java based build tool available from Jakarta.
Read/Review the chapter here.
Struts Chapter 11 - Using the Struts Validator
First Public Review PostingThis chapter introduces the Validator framework. The Validator provides the ability to declaratively configure validation routines for a Struts application, without requiring you to program special validation logic.
Read/Review the chapter here.
JMX In Action Chapter 3 - Building a foundation
First Public Review PostingIn all the examples in this book, you will need to have a JMX agent to contain your MBeans. In this chapter you will construct your JMX agent which will be used throughout the book. As the book progresses, you will add functionality to the agent by including other services or utilities.
Read/Review the chapter here.
JMX In Action Chapter 11 - Working with the relation service
First Public Review PostingThis chapter will show you how to manage MBeans that are intended to have relationships. They can be related by the resource they manage or by being members of the same workflow. The JMX relation service provides a way to validate and manage MBeans as related groups, called relations.
Read/Review the chapter here.
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NEW APP SERVER REVIEWS
ATG and MVC
By Matthew Fleming
I currently am in an environment that uses an iSell implementation on top of ATG Dynamo. Out of the box (ootb) (without writing your own Controller), dynamo drives development towards page centric web applications. The result is that maintainability and reuse suffer when using ootb Dynamo; it is too easy for each developer to only think in terms of the page they are creating not the application in general.
Read more on this review.
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KEY J2EE INDUSTRY HEADLINES
Java Pet Store 1.3.1 with Web Services Integration Released
A new version (1.3.1) of the Java Pet Store demo application is now available from Sun, which shows how to integrate Web Services with J2EE. Other cool features include an implementation of work flow to process purchase orders, a web tier caching tag, an XML schema transformation between two trading partners, and more.
Click here to read more.
Announcing Hibernate 1.0 Open Source O/R Persistence Tool
Open source (LGPL) object/relational persistence and query service "Hibernate 1.0" is now available. Hibernate lets you develop persistent objects following common Java idioms, including composition, association, inheritence, polymorphism and the Java collections framework.
Click here to read more.
U.S. Office of Management and Budget ranks J2EE above .NET
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (which supervises all executive branch government agencies and makes recommendations to the President of the United States) in April released a study that ranks J2EE higher than .NET as a platform an underlying technology for all e-government initiatives.
Click here to read more.
Eclipse 2.0 IDE Platform Released
Eclipse 2.0 is now available for download. Eclipse is an open extensible IDE that provides building blocks and a foundation for constructing and running integrated software-development tools. Tons of free and third party plugins are available for Eclipse that integrate with the major appservers and development frameworks.
Click here to read more.
JPetStore: A Pet Store from the Open Source Community
JPetStore is a completely rewritten Pet Store application based on Sun's original J2EE Pet Store. The primary difference is that JPetStore uses a design competetive and comparable to the Microsoft .Net Pet Shop --but without its shortcomings. JPetStore is vendor independent and based completely on open source freeware (Struts and others)
Click here to read more.
Opinion: Java to J2EE to Oblivion?
Jonathan Gibbons is a senior Java architect/developer, whose projects are global systems for 2000 to 5000 users. He has formalised his thoughts on the state of J2EE and its main competition in a paper entitled "Java to J2EE to Oblivion". His conclusion is that every Java developer should start to gain a working knowledge of .NET and be ready for the industry to switch many server systems over.
Click here to read more.
JADE Open Framework RAD tool for J2EE Released
The JADE Open Framework is a rapid application development (RAD) tool for the J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition). Its purpose is to allow Java developers to create high quality, consistent and maintainable database driven web applications and web sites quickly and easily.
Click here to read more.
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