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| November 25, 2002 | Circulation: 120 000+ | No. 48 |
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Featured Chapters
o Struts in Action Chapter 11: Developing applications with Tiles
o Struts in Action Chapter 12: Validating user input
New Public Review Book Chapters
o Core JDO Chapter 1: JDO Overview
o Core JDO Chapter 3: Getting Started with JDO
New TSS Interview
o Floyd Marinescu - Director, TheServerSide.com
Sponsored Whitepapers
o Hurwitz Group Whitepaper on the new JCP 2.5 program
TMC Education Strategies
o Increase your value as a developer in today's economy
Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
Some key headlines:
o Servlet Performance Report Released
o BEA Publishes Scathing Criticism of Websphere 5 and IBM
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Featured Chapters
Struts In Action Chapters 11 & 12
Contributed by Manning Publications
TheServerSide and Manning Publications are pleased to present two feature chapters from the popular 'Struts In Action', a comprehensive book based on the practical experience of the core Struts team and its development community. Chapters 11 and 12 from this book have been made available for download.
Download the chapters 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 "Core JDO" (Sun Microsystems Inc & Prentice Hall), by Keiron McCammon, Heiko Bobzin, Sameer Tyagi, and Michael Vorburger. Chapters from these books will be posted to TSS as they are written for public feedback.
Core JDO Chapter 1: JDO Overview
First Public Review PostingChapter 1 goes over the concepts around which JDO is centered, including the notion of a domain model, orthogonal and transparent persistence, how JDO provides this persistence in managed and non-managed environments, etc.
Read/Review the chapter here.
Core JDO Chapter 3: Getting Started with JDO
First Public Review PostingThis chapter explains the basics of how JDO works and how to use JDO to create, read,update and delete persistent objects. It introduces some of the advanced concepts behind JDO and aims to provide sufficient understanding to allow a Java programmer to develop an application using JDO.
Read/Review the chapter here.
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New TSS Interview
Floyd Marinescu - Director, TheServerSide.com
In this interview, Floyd Marinescu, Director of TheServerSide.com, and author of "EJB Design Patterns", talks about the founding and history of TheServerSide.com J2EE Community, his motivation for building the site, and what it takes to run a portal successfully. He also looks at Web Services and .NET coverage on the site and future plans for TheServerSide.
Watch Floyd Marinescu's Video Interview Here
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Sponsored Whitepapers
Hurwitz Group Whitepaper on the new JCP 2.5 program
This whitepaper, by the Hurwitz Group, looks at the enhancements recently made to the Java Community Process sm (JCP sm 2.5) Program and the new Java Specification Participation Agreement (JSPA). The JCP introduced the JSPA2, its agreement with its members, to support new business requirements and requests from community members.
The JCP Executive Committee's goal in defining the new version of the JCP, version 2.5, was to ensure that the working model of the community is in sync with the new version of the JSPA, which is now available from jcp.org.
In addition to contributing to and directly influencing Java technology, JCP members, as well as the Java end-user community, can now more widely participate in the evolution of Java through the JCP.
To find out more:
Download the Hurwitz Group White Paper Here
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TMC Education Strategies
Increase Your Value as a Developer in Today's Economy
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Key J2EE Industry Headlines
Servlet Performance Report Released
Web Performance Inc. has released a benchmark report that profiles the performance of popular low-cost servlet containers when operating under heavy load. The report is focused on projects utilizing a single, standalone application server. Tomcat, Orion, Jetty, Resin, Sun ONE 7.0, and IBM WebSphere 4.0 were tested.
Read more here.
.NET Dissed at Comdex, SD East 2002
"J2EE has it all over .Net," said James Gosling at a panel yesterday at the SD East 2002 conference. "It's more feature-complete, more mature, and what .Net has going for it is a marketing budget only God can dream of. .Net is a product from a company. J2EE is a market." .NET platform support and the "embrace and extend" strategy were also debated in a panel at Comdex 2002.
Read more here.
Interview with Marc Fleury on JBoss and Strategy
An interview with Marc Fleury, founder of JBoss, has been posted on theopenenterprise.com. In the interview, Fleury talks about the history and value of JBoss, claims that vendors are focusing on integrated software stacks because JBoss crippled their ability to make money on appservers, and discusses JBoss' goal to become a monopolistic but responsible provider of Web infrastructure.
Read more here.
BEA Publishes Scathing Criticism of Websphere 5 and IBM
BEA has published a press release and some documents that criticize IBM and its upcoming Websphere 5 appserver. BEA claims that Websphere 5 is 2 years behind Weblogic 7, and questions IBM on Websphere's reliability, integration, administration and developer productivity, while claiming to be better in those regards.
Read more here.
Sap DB 7.4 Beta Open Source Database Released with JDBC 3.0
A relative new comer in the world of O/S databases, Sap DB has emerged as a strong competitor in this arena due to its supported features and its operation in enterprise environments (SAP). With this release, they have made a number of major enchancements to the code tree, and have also released a JDBC driver supporting the 3.0 specification.
Read more here.
Oracle to Support Eclipse - Submits Standard IDE Extension JSR
Oracle has announced that it is intending to support Eclipse in its JDeveloper tool, and has submited a JSR 198, a Standard Extension API for IDE's, to the JCP process. JSR 198 is a proposal to create a standard interface for adding extensions to Java IDEs, allowing the creation of IDE-portable plugins/addon tools.
Read more here.
IntelliJ IDEA 3.0 Released with enhanced J2EE Support
JetBrains has announced the release and availability of IntelliJ IDEA 3.0 java IDE. The new release has tons of new features including new refactorings; built-in support for JSP, XML, and EJB; open API's for third-party plugins; Starbase Starteam integration; local version control; and more.
Read more here.
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