TheServerSide.com Newsletter #41

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In This Issue

Featured Articles
o J2EE Application Management - The Power of JMX
o The Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD) Exam

Hard Core Tech Talks
o Marc Fleury - President, The JBoss Group

New Public Review Book Chapters
o JMX In Action Appendix A: Open MBeans
o JMX In Action Appendix B: Using Ant

Enterprise Java Education Strategies
o Announcing J2EE Patterns Advanced Training Course

New Patterns
o EJBCommand-ValueObject Pattern

New App Server Reviews
o Websphere 4 as seen by an Opensource User

Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
Some key headlines:
o BEA and Borland to Offer Borland JBuilder, BEA Weblogic Edition
o TogetherSoft Announces Plans to Acquire WebGain Technology

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Featured Articles

J2EE Application Management - The Power of JMX
By Tony G. Thomas

To meet the demand for better administration, monitoring and management of J2EE applications, JMX is widely being used for managing J2EE infrastructures and applications built atop of J2EE middleware. JMX makes it easier to quickly expose information on demand from critical systems used in business operations, and use that information for business intelligence and informed decisions.
Read the article here

The Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD) Exam
By Pradeep Chopra

With the advancement and increasing presence of J2EE technologies, J2EE certifications have also started evolving and adding great value to the careers of programmers, developers and architects. Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD) is one of most popular and valuable certifications in the domain of J2EE. This article will help you understand the objectives, preparation requirements and resources available for this prestigious certification by Sun Microsystems.
Read the article here

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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 Marc Fleury, who talks about JBoss and Open Source .

Marc Fleury - President, The JBoss Group

In this interview, Marc talks about the current state of JBoss and the open source landscape. He looks at JBoss' microkernel design, client interceptors, fault tolerance in JBoss after 9/11, and the reasons for open source J2EE licensing. He describes the open source way of life, how JBoss functions as a business, and gives his take on .NET.

Click here to watch Marc Fleury's Video Interview

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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. Chapters from these books will be posted to TSS as they are written for public feedback.

JMX In Action Appendix A: Open MBeans
First Public Review Posting
At the time of writing this book, the Open MBean is an optional, and not completely defined, part of the JMX specification. This appendix is about what is covered in the JMX specification describing the Open MBean.
Read/Review the chapter here.

JMX In Action Appendix B: Using Ant
First Public Review Posting
This appendix is a guide to configuring and using Ant to build the book's examples. When the examples for this book were written, Ant was used from the Jakarta implementation provided by the Apache Organization to provide build capabilities. Ant is an open source tool for automating build processes.
Read/Review the chapter here.

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Enterprise Java Education Strategies

The Middleware Company Announces J2EE Patterns Advanced Training Course

The Middleware Company is proud to announce its most advanced training course yet: J2EE Patterns. J2EE Patterns is a hands-on event focusing on J2EE best practices. It's taught by the world's leading experts in J2EE Patterns and has been designed for experienced J2EE developers only!

With J2EE Patterns you will:

Increase your value as a Java developer in today's economy
Become a better Enterprise Java programmer
Succeed on that upcoming project

Classes are now available worldwide.

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New Patterns

EJBCommand-ValueObject Pattern
By Narayanan S

The modified EJBCommand Pattern will have the execute method with arguments that will be passed to the server. The argument that will be passed will be the interface pointing to the ValueObject. This helps in reducing the getter and setter methods in the Command bean as the ValueObject will have these getter & setter methods.
Read more on this review.

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New App Server Reviews

Websphere 4 as seen by an Opensource User
By Nikhil Gupte

I work for a software development company and I've had to use WAS 4.x for a project. The project has a central J2EE server to run ejbs and swing clients to connect to the server. The client's shop was sold on IBM and we had to go with WAS 4. We are pretty much an opensource shop. The tools we use are your basic OS stuff like Ant, Cvs, Linux/Freebsd, JBoss, etc. For development, we use JBoss and deploy the latest build on WAS each day. Following is my experience with WAS 4...
Read more on this review.

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Key J2EE Industry Headlines

JSP 2.0 Proposed Final Draft Available

The proposed final draft of the Java Server Pages (JSP) 2.0 spec is now available for download. Some new changes in JSP 2.0 include the ability to write taglibs without java, the addition of an expression language, requirement of J2EE 1.4, JSP fragments, a simpler tag invocation protocol, and more.
Click here to read more.

BEA and Borland to Offer Borland JBuilder, BEA Weblogic Edition

BEA and Borland have announced plans to offer Borland JBuilder, BEA WebLogic Edition, a tightly integrated product development solution for building enterprise applications on the WebLogic Platform with JBuilder. The companies have agreed to jointly market and distribute the developer product bundle through new reselling arrangements and alliances.
Click here to read more.

TogetherSoft Announces Plans to Acquire WebGain Technology

TogetherSoft Corp. and WebGain, Inc., have announced that TogetherSoft plans to acquire WebGain Studio, which consists of VisualCafe, StructureBuilder, Business Designer and Quality Analyzer and provides support for BEA's WebLogic Server. TogetherSoft will also provide an integration package, allowing WebGain Studio customers to migrate to TogetherSoft's development environment.
Click here to read more.

Anouncing Karapan Sapi, Struts Code Generator

Karapan Sapi is a generator that automatically create SQL DDL, Java Bean, DAOs, Struts Action and Struts Form code, Struts configuration, web.xml and Ant build file. It also creates .jsp for create, retrieve, update, delete and list operations, and is i18n ready.
Click here to read more.

Microsoft, IBM and BEA Deliver new Web Service Specifications

Microsoft, IBM and BEA have delivered specifications for Business Transactions and Process Automation for Web Services. Specifically the new specs address transacted communications of Web services (WS-Coordination and WS-Transaction) and the Business Process Execution Language.
Click here to read more.

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