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In This Issue

Tales From TheServerSide
 o New Cartoon Posted on TheServerSide - 'The Showdown'

Featured Articles
 o Web Services Publishing

New Tech Talks
 o Tyler Jewell - Director, Technical Evangelism, BEA Systems

Enterprise Java Education Strategies
 o What's the next big thing after EJB?

New App Server Reviews
 o ATG Middleware Magic

Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
 Some key headlines:
 o And the winner of the appserver marketshare war is - Tomcat!
 o HP Swings Both Ways

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Tales From TheServerSide

   Introducing Tales From TheServerSide - Your J2EE Cartoons

The Showdown

In this week's Tales From TheServerSide, Bill Gates and Scott McNealy clash in a battle which could decide the future of J2EE. Will Microsoft be humbled by our hero, or will J2EE ultimately go over to the Dark Side?

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Featured Articles

Web Services Publishing

By Zdenek Svoboda

This article introduces the basic structure of UDDI, explains how it works, and explores a live UDDI registry. It outlines the data model used in a UDDI registry, then describes the UDDI API. Using a publicly available UDDI implementation at freedb.org, along with a Web services runtime server from Systinet, examples of discovering and publishing information are provided.

Read the article here


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New Tech Talks

Get leading edge information on J2EE from those who know it best, in TheServerSide's Tech Talks! Videos Hosted on HostJ2EE.com. Featured this week is Tyler Jewell who talks about J2EE Web Services Development

Tyler Jewell - Director, Technical Evangelism, BEA Systems

In this interview, Tyler talks about two different models for doing Web services Development and looks at which products use these models. He describes the architecture of a Web services app written in Cajun, how Weblogic Workshop generates J2EE apps, and the use of Java Doc in JWS and Control files. He also compares BEA's product stack to IBM's, and predicts the outcome of the platform war between J2EE and .NET.

Watch Tyler Jewell's Video Interview Here

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Enterprise Java Education Strategies

What's the next big thing after EJB?

EJB technology really hit us by storm, and it has taken off in amazing ways over the past 2-3 years. But now that it's been out for awhile, what's the next thing for you to learn? The answer is.. (get ready for this).. more EJB!!! That's right. Now that you know the basics of EJB, there's a lot more to be uncovered, such as what's new in EJB 2.0, design patterns, best practices, and learning how to build large-scale EJB systems. By learning this, you help your company's projects be more scalable, reliable, and well-designed. You also increase your value as a developer as well.

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New App Server Reviews

ATG Middleware Magic

By Larry Ger

My experience with ATG has primarily focused on its back-end architecture. This is included in its core framework - the DAS. Amongst other things, DAS is J2ee enabled providing the oft-lauded nucleus namespace, repository abstraction layer, localised messaging (DMS) and more. Working with ATG, my role in a project is usually the integration man. Communicating with legacy, erp systems or other services is my focus. Most of the work has involved B2B and B2C commerce, involving the relevant ATG module.

Read more on this review.


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Key J2EE Industry Headlines

And the winner of the appserver marketshare war is - Tomcat!

The most commonly used Java application server execution environment today is Apache Software Foundation's Tomcat, according to BZ Research's latest Java Awareness Study, conducted in August 2002. In the study, 52.2 percent of all respondents said Tomcat was currently in use at their companies.

Read more here.

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Open Source Liferay Enterprise Portal Available

Liferay has announced the Liferay Enterprise Portal. LEP is a J2EE open source portal package that provides personalization, user/group management, web mail, message boards, content management all rolled into one convenient package.

Read more here.

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HP Swings Both Ways

Hot on the heals of HP's partnership announcements with BEA, HP has also announced a $50 million investment to promote and sell Microsoft's .Net framework. HP's objective is to make .Net the "No. 1 application platform" for the Proliant server line it acquired from Compaq Computer Corp. HP's partnership with BEA centers around their UX11i Servers.

Read more here.

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Macromedia Flash Remoting MX Released

Macromedia has announced the availability Macromedia Flash Remoting MX for J2EE AppServers (and also for .NET). Flash Remoting MX allows you to connect any J2EE-backend (EJB's, JMX, Servlets, java classes) to new GUI written in Flash; it was already used to create a new Petstore GUI on top of the original Petstore EJB layer.

Read more here.

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HP to bundle BEA Weblogic on UX11i Servers

HP has announced it would bundle the latest versions of BEA WebLogic on its popular UX11i server. BEA and HP (which competes heavily with IBM on server hardware) began this relationship in June, when the companies announced that HP would put its giant sales and services force behind BEA's software products.

Read more here.

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IBM Posts First SPECjAppServer2001 Result

SPECjAppServer2001 has been kicked off with the first results posted by IBM. The single node test running on WebSphere AppServer 4.0.3 on IBM's eServer iSeries i890 resulted in scores of 804.09 BOPS (business operations/second) and $4847.59/BOP.

Read more here.

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