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Featured Technical Articles
o Corporate Data Centers, a soon to be extinct species?
Enterprise Java Education Strategies
o Learn to Build Enterprise Solutions with J2EE o EJB 2.0 Matrix
Shape the Next Set of Definitive J2EE Books
o New Chapters from Mastering EJB II
o New Chapters from EJB Design Patterns
Latest Pattern Discussions
o Use local interfaces with entities
New Application Server Reviews
o JBoss - Even Closer to a BEA Killer
o SilverStream: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
FEATURED TECHNICAL ARTICLES
Corporate Data Centers, a soon to be extinct species?
By Billy Newport, EJB Consultant
Increased network bandwidth coupled with the adoption of open standards such as J2EE or the Linux API for enterprise application development will lead to the IT-less corporation. Open standards will decouple applications from the platform they run on, which will increase the competition between hardware platform providers. Increased network bandwidth will allow companies to access their data center remotely. These two factors can foster the creation of a new market where corporations outsource their data centers to companies that can use economies of scale to provide application hosting solutions for cheap. This article will show you how the 'IT-less' corporation will emerge, and how mainframes or large partitionable Unix servers will play a key role in the 'IT-less' corporation.
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ENTERPRISE JAVA EDUCATION STRATEGIES
Learn to Build Enterprise Solutions with J2EE
Why are top developers virtually 10 times more productive than their colleagues? Find out in advanced Java training developed by recognized experts with real-world experience. Intensive one-week workshops combine lecture, peer-to-peer discussion and hands-on programming to boost your prowess and productivity. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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EJB 2.0 Matrix
Email: registration@middleware-company.com
Call for details about private courses or for more information: (512) 336-9347
Eileen Sauer a Senior Enterprise Trainer at The Middleware Company has written a EJB 2.0 Matrix, containing descriptions of all the EJB classes and methods all in a handy tabular format. The EJB 2.0 Matrix is an awesome handy reference. You can find Eileen EJB 2.0 Matrix and EJB 1.1 Matrix On the Resources section of TheServerSide.com.
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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.
Latest Public Review Postings:
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LATEST PATTERN DISCUSSIONS
Use local interfaces with entities
By Ed Roman
An entity bean is a data object, not a business process object. Accessing an entity bean directly over the network is expensive. You can avoid this cost by calling entity beans from local clients, and always accessing entity beans through their local interfaces.
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NEW APPLICATION SERVER REVIEWS
JBoss - Even Closer to a BEA Killer
By David Jones
I have enjoyed using JBoss, and have experienced much less frustration with it than with Weblogic. I plan to continue using JBoss for a number of reasons. One of them is that it is a very complete and well built package. Another reason is that it is open source. We want our customers to have source available for everything we give them. This significantly reduces custom feature development time. With a basic open source framework to build on and make desired small changes to, people can get what they want in a hurry.
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SilverStream: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
By david pugh
In a nutshell, if you are not running a website with hundreds of concurrent users, want to be able to migrate to J2EE, and then to other app servers, need an easy to setup server, then SilverStream is a very viable option. If you need rock solid stability all the time, need to manage hundreds of concurrent users, have a large staff for managing your servers, and already have a large investment in java, then SilverStream is not for you.
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KEY J2EE INDUSTRY HEADLINES
Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2 Specifications proposed final draft 2
The proposed final draft 2 for the Servlet 2.3 and the JSP 1.2 specifications are available for download. PDF2 changes are mostly minor API changes and clarifications.
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XML Schema recommended by W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium has officially given its Stamp of Approval to the XML Schema specification. This makes it an official W3C Recommendation. XML Schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with them.
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JDBC 3.0 proposed final draft 3 available
Proposed final draft 3 of the JDBC 3.0 specification has been posted. According to the spec: "Changes in this release break J2EE compatibility rules".
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UDDI Business Registry Goes Live
The Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) project today announced that its global Business Registry is fully operational, marking the successful completion of live beta testing. UDDI is a key component of Web services applications because it enables businesses to register and discover Web services via the Internet.
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HP to embed Iona Orbix 2000 in HP Bluestone Application Server
J2EE server vendor IONA today announced that it has signed an agreement with Hewlett-Packard (HP) that will allow the incorporation of IONA's Orbix 2000 within HP Bluestone Total-e-Server, the application server of the HP Netaction family of products. IONA's Orbix 2000 will provide HP Bluestone the ability to support full RMI over IIOP, required in by the latest EJB 2.0 specs.
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Togethersoft releases Together ControlCenter 5.0
Togethersoft has released Version 5.0 of it's UML-Tool Together. It has many new features like an enhanced UML-Diagram Editor, multi-pane Programming Editor, JSP/HTML editor, EJB 2.0 support, complete servlet modeling/generation and more.
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EJB 2 Final Draft 2 released, dependent objects scrapped
Sun has released EJB 2 proposed final draft 2 specification to the public. Among the many changes include a *scrapping of dependent objects*, instead the EJB Spec now defines a "local interface" for session and entity beans.
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