TheServerSide.com Newsletter #47

November 12, 2002

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No. 47

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In This Issue

Tales From TheServerSide
o New TSS Features - What's on Your Wishlist?

Featured Articles
o EJB 2.1 Adds New Functionality to EJB QL
o Fast Track to Struts: What it Does and How

New Tech Talks
o Shawn Bayern - JSTL Reference Implementation Lead

Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
Some key headlines:
o Oracle Submits Three New SPECJAppserver2001 Results
o Borland to Acquire TogetherSoft

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Tales From TheServerSide

New TSS Features - What's on Your Wishlist?

Now that the cluster launch has settled, we have had a little time to put in a few features that we needed.

These include:

RSS Feeds: You can now get access to our news, discussion forums, and patterns areas via RSS. Visit: http://www.theserverside.com/rss for more information on the feeds available

AutoLogin: Since we are using cookies for logins, you will now notice the option "Persist login as a cookie". If you check this, you will be automatically logged into the site. You will know that you are logged in by a "Welcome " message in the left menu bar

New Message Notification: I always want to know if a new message has been added to a thread, and found myself "noting" how many messages were in there. Now the thread link contains the number of messages, so when it changes, the link will show "not visited", signalling the fact that there is new content there.

We have many, many new features that we will start working on. Expect to see more personalization, a new rightbar, a threaded view of messages, email integration, and many many more items popping up.

If you have any features that you would like to see, email us, or post to the Portal Feedback forum

Sincerely,
Dion Almaer
Chief Architect
TheServerSide

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This newsletter sponsored in part by Oracle

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Featured Articles

Monson-Haefel's Guide to Enterprise JavaBeans: EJB 2.1 Adds New Functionality to EJB QL

By Richard Monson-Haefel

In this column, Richard Monson-Haefel looks at how EJB 2.1 has addressed certain shortcomings in the EJB query language (EJB QL) with the addition of several new functions and an ORDER BY clause. He describes these new features, and presents a short list of features and failings that he thinks the next version of the specification should address.
Read the column here

Fast Track to Struts: What it Does and How

By Nadir Gulzar

This chapter introduces prospective Struts users to its key benefits, and illustrates its configuration and usage semantics. It defines the requirements of a robust presentation framework and discusses how these requirements are implemented in Struts. It also explores the design patterns implemented by Struts, the semantics of the controller, and the associated helper components.
Download the chapter 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 Shawn Bayern who talks about the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL).

Shawn Bayern - JSTL Reference Implementation Lead

In this interview, Shawn talks about the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL), the problems it solves, interesting features in JSTL, and the expression language. He looks at how JSTL fits into an enterprise architecture, and how it can help with division of labour in a J2EE project. He also discusses the relationship between JSTL, the Apache Group and Sun.

Watch Shawn Bayern's Video Interview Here

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Key J2EE Industry Headlines

IBM plans low-cost J2EE AppServer

IBM is planning a new edition of Websphere application server called WebSphere Express, intended to be aggressively priced and tailored for small/midsize businesses. One potential price model is $2,000 per CPU and $25 per user, as opposed to the current $8,000 per CPU for a single-server version and $35,000 per CPU for the enterprise version.
Read more here.

IONA Announces Orbix E2A AppServer Platform 6

IONA has announced version 6.0 of its Orbix E2A AppServer Platform (ASP). The new release focuses on integration, adding new features such as a security service which interoperates across CORBA, J2EE, Web services and mainframe technology domains; a bridge between JMS and Corba Notification, the ability to aggregate multiple mixed-technology components into business-level Web services, etc.
Read more here.

Web Services Performance Kit compares BEA, IBM, SunONE

PushToTest has released a Web Services Performance Kit, an open source benchmark to measure the performance of Web Services running on IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic and SunONE Application Server platforms. PushToTest has published initial Performance results on their website and has Sun One in the lead.
Read more here.

Oracle Submits Three New SPECJAppserver2001 Results

Oracle has submitted three new results to the SPECJAppserver2001 benchmark (formerly known as ECperf). Oracle9iAS Release 2 was used in a dual node configuration as well as two clustered configurations, each result on different hardware. Oracle now has the best performance and $/performance in the DualNode and MultiNode categories.
Read more here.

Borland to Acquire TogetherSoft

Borland Software Corporation has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire privately held TogetherSoft Corporation for $82.5 million in cash and 9,050,000 shares of Borland common stock. Following acquisition announcements of Starbase and Boldsoft early in the month, Borland seems on its way to becoming a tools powerhouse.
Read more here.

Sun One AppServer 7 Production Released with Free Edition

Sun has released the J2EE 1.3 certified Sun One AppServer 7 in production. The platform edition is available for free download and use. Sun One 7 supports JDK 1.4 and the Java Web Services standards that are part of the Java XML Pack. Interestingly, Sun One 7 is built on top of a new re-write of the J2EE reference implementation.
Read more here.

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