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| December 10, 2002 | Circulation: 125 000+ | No. 49 |
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Featured Article
o Making your J2EE Application Web Services Ready
New Tech Talks
o Jack Greenfield - Former Chief Architect, Practitioner Desktop Group, Rational
New Reviews
o Review of PerformaSure, J2EE Performance Diagnosis Tool
New Public Review Book Chapters
o Bitter EJB Chapter 9: Bitter Alternatives
o Bitter EJB Chapter 10: Bitter Messages
o Core JDO Chapter 4: Object Lifecycle
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Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
Some key headlines:
o IBM to acquire Rational for $2.1 Billion
o JBuilder 8 Enterprise Edition Download Released
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Featured Articles
Making your J2EE Application Web Services Ready
By Paulo Caroli
The XML Business Delegate provides a solution to facilitate a mapping from an object-oriented system to a service-oriented one. This article shows you how you can combine J2EE Design Patterns, such as the Business Delegate, the Session Facade, and the DTO, with XML, to make your EJB application ready for Web services.
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New Tech Talk
Get insight on current J2EE issues from the industry experts , in TheServerSide's Tech Talks! Videos Hosted on HostJ2EE.com. Featured this week is Jack Greenfield who talks about The Future of J2EE Design and Development .
Jack Greenfield - Former Chief Architect, Practitioner Desktop Group, Rational
In this interview, Jack talks about current software design methodologies, the next wave in application design, and custom languages. He talks about Model Driven Development, the future of J2EE software development and takes a look at Aspect Oriented Programming.
Watch Jack Greenfield's Video Interview Here
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New Reviews
Review of PerformaSure, J2EE Performance Diagnosis Tool
By Partha Nageswaran
Diagnosing and fixing performance bottlenecks in a J2EE application has never been a simple or quick task. I recently tried PerfomaSure, a J2EE performance diagnosis tool from Sitraka (now part of Quest Software) to optimize the performance of a J2EE application. I found the tool to be extremely valuable in locating many performance issues easily, saving me significant time in performance tuning the application.
Read review 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 Manning's "Bitter EJB", by Bruce Tate et al. and "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.
Bitter EJB Chapter 9: Bitter Alternatives
First Public Review PostingThis chapter discusses some fundamental problems with entity beans, and examines some alternate solutions that can address these problems.
Read/Review the chapter here.
Bitter EJB Chapter 10: Bitter Messages
First Public Review PostingThis chapter reviews the Java Message Service (JMS) and its recent integration with the J2EE platform in the form of message-driven EJBs. Working through a simple example, it looks at some potential pitfalls in designing message-based applications.
Read/Review the chapter here.
Core JDO Chapter 4: Object Lifecycle
First Public Review PostingChapter 4 discusses the lifecycle of objects and the reasons why state changes can be meaningful to the application developer. It looks at mandatory and optional states of instances, the methods to gather information about states and methods that lead to state transitions.
Read/Review the chapter here.
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Key J2EE Industry Headlines
IBM to acquire Rational for $2.1 Billion
IBM has announced the acquisition of Rational Software, maker of the Rose modelling tools, Clearcase configuration management tools, and many other development oriented toolsets. The $2.1 billion deal is IBM largest since the $3.5 billion purchase of Lotus Notes Corp. in 1995 and marks its latest move away from the computer hardware business that had been its trademark for decades.
Read more here.
New SPECjAppServer2001 Results from Borland and Sybase
Borland and Sybase have submitted new performance results to the SPECjAppServer2001 benchmark (formerly ECperf). Borland achieved $112.33 business operations per second (BOPS) and $500.36/BOPS in the single node category. Sybase submitted to the dual node category and has 202.12 BOPS and $332.73/BOPS (the best price performance figure so far).
Read more here.
JBuilder 8 Enterprise Edition Download Released
The new release of Borland JBuilder Enterprise edition is available for download. JBuilder 8 Enterprise simplifies Web and EJB development with two-way visual designers and deployment to leading J2EE appservers. It includes UML code visualization, refactoring, code formatting, HotSwap debugging, unit testing, and version control integration.
Read more here.
Sun, Microsoft Go Head-to-Head on bundling Java in Windows
The latest battle in the Microsoft-Sun war: Sun and MS will be battling over whether Microsoft should be forced to "bundle" a standard version of the Sun Java Virtual Machine in Windows.
Read more here.
Forrester: The J2EE appserver market still up for grabs
According to Forrester Research, application server vendors are claiming victory in a market they haven't won. In fact, if BEA Systems, IBM and Oracle don't buy development help soon, they risk losing customers to Sun, Microsoft and the open-source community. The special report debunks vendors marketshare claims and recommends that vendors focus on beefing up productivity tools.
Read more here.
IBM Announces Websphere Application Server 5
IBM has announced the availability of Websphere 5, the long awaited J2EE 1.3 certified appserver. The new version includes much of the web services support specified in J2EE 1.4 (from JSR 109), a JMX management interface, new self-healing and self-tuning/configuring features, etc. IBM debriefed TheServerSide on whats new in WS 5 and we've posted what we learned here.
Read more here.
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