TheServerSide.com Newsletter #46

October 29, 2002

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No. 46

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In This Issue

Featured Articles
o Getting the Most out of Expresso 5.0
o J2EE Reference Architectures: A Foundation for Robust J2EE Systems

New Tech Talks
o Anne Thomas Manes - Former CTO, Systinet

Enterprise Java Education Strategies
o How to increase your value as a Java developer

New App Server Reviews
o Using Pramati Studio 3.0 as a Developer
o Sun One Application Server 7

New Patterns
o Domain Transient and Domain Transient Composite

Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
Some key headlines:
o Java Community Process 2.5 Announced
o Sun Cutting 11% of Work Force - Is Java in Trouble?

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Featured Articles

Getting the Most out of Expresso 5.0

By Michael Rimov

The Expresso 5.0 release boasts the usual items that one has come to expect in an open source project: many bug fixes, and a plethora of performance improvements. There are several more areas of Expresso that a programmer should be aware of to maximize the benefits of this framework. The goal of this article is to provide programmers with an idea of what's changed in Expresso 5.0 and what's new and exciting in the framework.
Read the article here

J2EE Reference Architectures: A Foundation for Robust J2EE Systems

By James Kao

Reference architectures are a tool that we can use to simplify the design of our new systems and to extract vital architectural knowledge embedded within our previously-written systems. This article discusses how to build J2EE systems quickly and effectively using reference architectures.
Download the PDF 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 Anne Thomas Manes who talks about Web services and discusses a real world Web services implementation in the telecom sector.

Anne Thomas Manes - Former CTO, Systinet

In this interview, Anne talks about Web services integration, and the challenges of interoperability by discussing a real world Web services implementation in the telecom sector. She also looks at UDDI, Web services tools, Systinet's role in the Web services arena and their prescribed methodology for Web services development.

Watch Anne Manes' Video Interview Here

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Enterprise Java Education Strategies

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New App Server Reviews

Using Pramati Studio 3.0 as a Developer

By Magnus Selhammar

I have used the IDE with the built-in for almost three months, primarily to develop an application using the Service Pack(SP) 2, with MySQL as the database server. I have used it as a developer, and this review covers aspects central for a developer. It is possible to deploy on the WebLogic, WebSphere, and Oracle application servers, as well as Pramati's own.
Read more on this review.

Sun One Application Server 7

By Matt Bauer

For about a month now I worked with the new Sun One Application Server 7 Standard Edition Beta and am very pleased. This rewrite of Sun's prior Application Server is very well done. I find the installation, configuration, development, and maintenance to be thoughtless. There's documentation available for every part of the application server and error logs are quite detailed. In addition, the easy integration with other Sun One offerings (Directory Server, Identity Server, etc) make it an ideal choice for the growing pains as small projects turn into large ones.
Read more on this review .

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New Patterns

Domain Transient and Domain Transient Composite

By Richard Katz

Domain Transient and its composite Domain Transient Composite (DTC) are inter-tier or inter-service patterns designed so that the DTC operates like a coarse-grained Data Transfer Object but also organizes business rules to follow their respective use case and domain models, allows transfer objects to inherit from the domain and supports structured documents such as XML and SOAP, and decreases coupling with the transfer mechanism so that it can readily be substituted.
Read more on this pattern .

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This newsletter sponsored in part by Borland

J2EE EJB Containers: 'Stress Test' Results
Six application servers from BEA, Borland, Fujitsu, IBM, JBoss and Novell were evaluated in terms of raw performance (on a single server) and scalability (with increasing client load, and clustered on two servers) — using identical deployment environments. Can you guess who came out on top? Download the complimentary executive report.

Key J2EE Industry Headlines

Java Community Process 2.5 Announced

The Java Community Process (JCP) 2.5 has been announced. The new version enhances the JCP, opens the doors to open source licensing and compatible implementations of specifications. The cost structure has also been changed to allow smaller developer groups and individual developers to gain better access to Java specs, often for free.
Read more here.

Sun Agrees to Join WS-I without Founder status

Sun Microsystems said last week that it plans to join the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), a consortium of companies working to make emerging Web services products compatible, as only a contributing member. The move is a reversal of the company's previous stance that it would join the group only as a board member so as to be on equal footing with IBM and Microsoft.
Read more here.

Oracle9i JDeveloper and AppServer 9.0.3 Production Released

Oracle has recently released the 9.0.3 production version of it's Oracle9i JDeveloper IDE and Application server. Both products offer full support for J2EE 1.3. JDeveloper includes UML Modeling and generation, a J2EE design pattern framework, built in Ant, CVS, Struts, JUnit support, etc.
Read more here.

Quest Software to Acquire Sitraka

Sitraka (formerly KL Group), a long time player in the Java space has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Quest Software, an application performance management company. The $51.7 million cash deal gives Quest a presence in the Java space, via Sitraka's PerformaSure and JProbe Java/J2EE performance analysis software.
Read more here.

NextApp Releases Echo Web Application Framework 1.0 Beta

NextApp's "Echo" Framework is a platform for developing highly interactive Web-based applications. From a developer's standpoint, Echo resembles a user-interface toolkit: applications are built using a component-based, event-driven architecture. Echo's API borrows from the design principles of Swing while making accommodations for the low-bandwidth, semi-stateless nature of Web clients.
Read more here.

Progress Software to Acquire eXcelon

Progress Software (Sonic MQ) has announced that it will acquire eXcelon (ObjectStore OODBMS, Javlin J2EE Cache, XIS XML database, Stylus Studio) in a $24 million all-cash buyout. Progress Software intends to integrate some of eXcelon's products into its Sonic XQ integration platform, as well as complement Progress' over all stack.
Read more here.

Sun Cutting 11% of Work Force - Is Java in Trouble?

Sun Microsystems has cut 4,400 of its 39,400 employees, in its second major round of cuts. Scott McNealy, Sun's chief executive, said he was slow to cut jobs because of the difficulty in replacing talent once the economy rebounds.
Read more here.

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