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IN THIS ISSUE
Featured Technical Articles
o J2EE Project Management
o The State of The Server Side
Enterprise Java Education Strategies
o Be the KING of the J2EE jungle
Shape the Next Set of Definitive J2EE Books
o New Chapter "EJB Overview"
Slides From Enterprise Java Conferences
o SOAP
o Mastering Transactions
o JMX
Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
FEATURED TECHNICAL ARTICLES
J2EE Project Management: Critical measures when beginning a J2EE project
Ed Roman, CEO, The Middleware Company
To be successful with a J2EE project, you must plan and understand a great deal beyond the technologies themselves. There are a wealth of project management challenges you must overcome, such as designing the object model, dividing up your team, and educating your team.
This white paper is a brief collection of J2EE-specific project management best practices, along with links to external resources that you should be considering in your J2EE project. They are taken from real-world experiences, and are intended to help you build J2EE systems. As you read the white paper, you may find project management issues that you may not have considered in the past. If this happens, you should consider weaving these issues into your project plan, or highlight the issues for future reference when you begin a J2EE project. And while we may not be able to answer every question, for each issue, we will point you towards external resources to help you find your own answers.
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The State of The Server Side: History, important trends and predictions for the J2EE Application Server Market
by Floyd Marinescu, Senior Architect, The Middleware Company
The year 2000 has seen Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) compliancy move out of the realm of marketing and into nine shipping products. J2EE vendor strategic positioning has continually changed, from focusing on core products, to an integrated range of J2EE services, to J2EE compliancy and finally to avoiding commoditization by leveraging J2EE servers as platforms for WebServices, Wireless and EAI development. The dominant players in the game have surfaced, but a variety of strategic takeovers may reshape J2EE app. server market share for 2001. In short, the server side java industry has gone through a whirl wind of change, this article will walk you through the years events and explain the trends and the players that will change the server side java landscape in 2001.
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ENTERPRISE JAVA EDUCATION STRATEGIES
Be the king of the jungle: Train to become the master of Enterprise Java
J2EE. EJB. XML. Most developers take months to learn these technologies. Why spend an eternity? Your time is valuable. With The Middleware Company, in just a few short weeks, you can master these technologies. Come learn with us. The Middleware Company will make you the king of the Java jungle.
Sign up for one of our courses 3 weeks in advance and receive a free GPS locator device!
Course schedule:
New York:Visit The Middleware Company for more information.
XML & Web Services: April 30 - May 4
Mastering EJB: April 16 - 20
EJB For Architects: April 23 - 27
Bay Area:
Mastering J2EE: May 7 - 14
Mastering EJB: May 14 - 18
EJB For Architects: May 21 - 25
Austin:
XML & Web Services: June 18 - 22
Mastering EJB: June 11 - 15
EJB For Architects: April 16 - 20
Mastering J2EE - April 9-13
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Shape the Next Set of Definitive J2EE Books
TheServerSide.com is hosting two new J2EE book projects: Mastering EJB II, and EJB Design Patterns. Chapters from these two new books will be posted to TSS as they are written for public feedback. For the first time ever you will be able to directly participate in the writing of these two influential books and personally influence thousands of developers who will learn from them.
How you can help
Chapters will be posted in Microsoft Word format. To review a chapter, simply type your additions/comments/corrections directly into the word document and mail it back to the authors. The word documents will be shipped with Track Changes set to on inorder for your comments to be integrated with the chapter. All emails to the authors other than these documents may be discarded.
New Chapter - "EJB Overview"
Mastering EJB was one of the original and most influectial EJB books in the industry. Mastering EJB II now returns with two new expert co-authors, updated for EJB 2.0 and improved with advanced topics such as large scale systems design, J2EE project management, complex persistence and more.
A new chapter by Ed Roman titled "EJB Overview" has been released for review on TheServerSide.com. Please download it and provide Ed with your feedback.
First Public Review Postings:
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Slides From Enterprise Java Conferences
The following are slides from previous Enterpise Java ConferencesSOAP
Presented at O'Reilly Conference on Enterprise Java
A set of slides about "Performing B2B Integration with Java and XML" by Doug Bateman of The Middleware Company .
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Mastering Transactions
Presented at O'Reilly Conference on Enterprise Java
A set of slides about "Performing atomic, consistent, isolated, and durable operations using Java and EJB" by Doug Bateman of The Middleware Company .
Download Talk PDFJMX
Presented at O'Reilly Conference on Enterprise Java
A set of slides about "How JMX Enables Flexible Administration of Java Systems" By Tyler Jewell of BEA .
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LATEST J2EE NEWS
Correction to Reader Writer article and any feedback here...
I've fallen victim to the DCL problem in the article so I'm posting a correction for the getLock snippet. The article was written some time ago before everybody knew DCL didn't work on SMP boxes. Plus, anyone with feedback is welcome to post on this thread.
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Community Collaborates to write J2EE books on TheServerSide
For the first time ever, the public will have a chance to directly participate in the writing of our industries next most influential books by reviewing them as they are written! "Mastering EJB II" and "EJB Design Patterns" will have their chapters posted to TheServerSide.com as they are written. The community is invited to directly participate in the writing of these books.
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Brokat Advanced Server/J 4.6 achieves J2EE 1.2 certification
Brokat Technologies today announced that its Brokat Advanced Server/J version 4.6 (formerly Gemstone/J) has been branded J2EE 1.2 compatible. Object Zealot favourite Gemstone/J application server was acquired by Brokat in 2000. The new Brokat Advanced Server/J is to become the basis of Brokats Wireless and Financial Services offerings.
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Rational Unified Process addin for BEA Weblogic
Rational and BEA recently announced Rational Unified Process (RUP) Add-in for WebLogic 6.0. The RUP addin is basically a set of excerpts from Rationals modelling process, BEA Weblogic Documentation and Suns J2EE blueprint combined with Rationals EJB generation tools and integration with Weblogic.
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Silverstream announces broadest J2EE Server OS support
SilverStream Software today announced the industry's broadest J2EE-certified platform support. SilverStream offers J2EE-certified support for IBM's AIX, Microsoft Windows NT/2000, Sun Microsystems Solaris, Hewlett-Packard's UX, and Red Hat's Linux.
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HP to offer Enhydra open-source application server
Hewlett-Packard (HP) said on Monday that it will offer Lutris Technologies' open-source application server, Enhydra, as a less expensive alternative for midrange and small companies. Although its nice to see an open source based product getting support from a giant like HP, the news is suprising considering that HP owns the Bluestone J2EE server.
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