![]() Hello Francois Le, A quick practical update with lots of partner news :)
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Conference Guide You can already download the JavaPolis 2006 Conference Guide in PDF (31Mb). We'll provide a hard copy of the JavaPolis guide in your welcome bag, so don't worry if you don't want to print/download this document
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Avoid the JP Queue! People who want to avoid the queue on Monday can collect their welcome bag and university/conference badge on Sunday evening December 10th from 19h00 till 21h00 at the MetroPolis Business registration desk (normal JavaPolis entry).
JavaPolians only attending the conference can also collect their badge on Tuesday afternoon till 19h00.
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Special note to all JavaPolis speakers ALL JavaPolis speakers are requested to use the
JavaPolis template.
All talks should have a similar look and feel but by using our template we also introduce some trigger slides to ease the post-processing. Thanks for making JavaPolis pixel-perfect :o)
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JavaPolis 'Slots' ALL University and Conference slots are now allocated, we still have a few (late) BOF and a number of Quickie slots available.
If interested don't hesitate to
mail us a proposal.
The Project Semplice talk (Visual Basic on the JVM) has been canceled because 2 of the 3 engineers have left Sun Microsystems and the other engineer Tor Norbye has discontinued (for some dark reasons?) his work on this project :(
On a more positive note we've added a very interesting presentation on "Cometd - the next stage of " by Alex Russell. A talk on "Migrating to Seam (Web Beans) has been added on Friday morning. Check out the conference schedule for more info!
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Partner News: Below you can find Java news from our JavaPolis 2006 sponsors.
Keep in mind that thanks to these companies we can keep the entrance fee as low as possible, so please read-on! |
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Adobe Adobe a premium sponsor of Javapolis 2006: Why ?
When developing internet applications, the user experience has become more and more important. The need to create fluid rich internet applications that can interact with java technology, rich media, data, … is getting bigger every day. Technologies like PDF and Flash can provide a solution for this problem. With ubiquity of Adobe® Reader® and Adobe Flash® Player, Adobe has the largest software footprint in the world, which uniquely positions them to help developers deliver applications to the edge — anytime, anywhere, and through any medium.
At Javapolis 2006 we want to present you Adobe Flex 2. Adobe® Flex™ 2 is a rich Internet application framework based on Adobe Flash® that will enable you to productively create beautiful, scalable applications that can reach virtually anyone on any platform. It includes a powerful, Eclipse™ based development tool, an extensive visual component library, and high-performance data services enabling you to meet your applications' most demanding needs.
Come and visit us at the Adobe booth or visit the Flex University session (
Build sexy web apps with Flex) or the conference session (Adobe Flex and Java
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Or go to http://www.adobe.com/flex and try it out for yourself!
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JBoss JBoss Portal at JavaPolis
JBoss Portal is one of the key JEMS technologies that JBoss, a division of Red Hat, will be featuring at JavaPolis, along with the entire JBoss JEMS range. JBoss Portal's key developers, Julien Viet, Roy Russo and Chris Laprun, all work hard to make sure Portal delivers as an open source platform for hosting and serving a portal's Web interface, publishing and managing its content, and customising its experience.
JBoss Portal v2.4 is a key presentation Layer for SOA, supporting Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP). WSRP defines how to plug remote web services into the pages of online portals and other user-facing JBoss Portal applications. At the same time WSRP enables greater flexibility and agility at the presentation layer in a modern SOA deployment.
JBoss Portal v2.6, which is under development, will include many new enhancement including support for higher level WSRP profiles, usability and manageability enhancements driven by the JBoss community and customers, and an enhanced personal dashboard so each user will own a set of pages that he/she can fully manage.
Come and meet the key JBoss developers at JavaPolis, let Marc Fleury serve you a beer on the JBoss stand, and learn about the latest exciting developments in the JBoss Portal community.
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Oracle Oracle will be present at JavaPolis 2006. Come and visit us on stand #4 to have the opportunity to win books on Java Technology and to learn more about:
Oracle SOA suite - All of the SOA suite components are demo'ed at the Oracle booth at Javapolis:
- Oracle BPEL Process Manager
- Oracle Web Services Manager
- Oracle Business Rules Engine
- Oracle Business Activity Monitoring
- Oracle Enterprise Service Bus
Oracle WebCenter Suite
Oracle WebCenter Suite combines the standards-based, declarative development of JavaServer Faces, the flexibility and power of portlets and runtime customization, and a set of integrated Web
2.0 services into a new generation of context-centric, composite applications.
Oracle JDeveloper
The Java / Java EE IDE used by all 3 winning teams at last year's Javapolis RAD race - and it's free ! With support for Java Server Faces, EJB
3.0, BPEL process design, JSR 227, and much, much more...
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SUN Another Freedom for Java Technology
Sun started a revolution with Java technology 10 years ago. With a free runtime, an open specification, and a platform-independent promise of compatibility, Java technology became a gold standard on mobile phones, on the desktop and within the enterprise. Now, in 2006,
Sun is open sourcing its implementations of Java technology as Free/Libre software.
The Java community comprises many communities that have, for over 10 years now, built a large and vibrant market around the Java platform, innovating with Java technology through both closed and open source development models.
Sun is now seeding open-source communities around its implementations of the Java platform. Sun is releasing the code under an open-source license, and putting in place the infrastructure for a community to collaborate on a source-code commons.
Sun believes that open source developers gain greater freedom and customers gain more control over the rapidly developing technology they use. Sun recognizes that open source requires freedom for developers, and recognizes that the strength of Java technology is its promise of compatibility.
On Wednesday 13 (20:30-21:30), Mark Reinhold Sun's Java Chief Engineer will host a BoF to discuss this.
Make sure to attend this BoF and any of the other Sun sessions and catch the Flying Duke to get a chance to win cool prizes!!
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BEA BEA Dev2Dev at JavaPolis 2006
BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) will be Sponsor of JavaPolis 2006. We will be providing live, hands-on demonstrations of BEA comprehensive portfolio of application infrastructure solutions, with special emphasis on BEA WebLogic
Workshop™ Studio,
JRockit, Kodo with EJB3/Open JPA and a
Spring 2.0 implementation on BEA WebLogic Server. We will also be offering live blog coverage of the event at our
JavaPolis Event Coverage Page.
In addition to showcasing the latest Java technology, part of the BEA stand will be devoted to BackBase, the leading provider of Ajax-based Rich Internet Applications software and solutions. The two companies will be demonstrating how BackBase Enterprise Aajx on the BEA WebLogic and BEA AquaLogic™ product families can help organizations create advanced user interfaces that take advantage of existing Java applications and emerging Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) services.
Visitors to the BEA stand at JavaPolis will have the opportunity to win one of 10 free copies of BEA WebLogic Workshop Studio and to discuss all these subjects while "Thinking Liquid".
BEA continues to innovate, so do not miss the chance to hear Srinagesh Susarla, BEA Lead Engineer for J2EE Application Container, talking about JavaEE Enhancements for Real World deployments on the Thursday, 13th December, from
12.00 to 13.00 at the Javapolis's Conference. This session will show you how the next generation technology tackles issues faced by large scale enterprise applications in development and deployment.
You can find out more about the next generation of technology used by BEA WebLogic Server by joining the
BEA Dev2Dev Programme today. You will gain access to technical resources such as articles, blogs, tools, tutorials and an extensive code library. You will also receive invitations to local and national business and technical seminars, breakfast briefings and events, as well as online webinars and any relevant BEA conferences.
We look forward to meeting you there.
Resources:
- Join Dev2Dev today!
- Visit our JavaPolis Event Coverage Page
- View our Articles and Blogs
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JCS ![Image]()
CBB, The start of a SOA architecture at LNE
The 'Centraal Bedrijven Bestand' (CBB) contains identification data on all companies regarding licenses for emissions, waste production, etc. and is managed by the environmental department of the Flemish Government. The project for which JCS/Dolmen was selected, consists of the creation of a communication module enabling the Flemish Government (department Leefmilieu, Natuur en Energie) to communicate with its partners
e.g. 'Vlaamse Milieu Maatschappij' (VMM), 'Openbare Vlaamse Afvalstoffen Maatschappij' (OVAM), 'Vlaamse Landmaatschappij' (VLM) regarding changes in the CBB - database. The application communicates every update or insert in the CBB database to the partners. The application deployed at the partner side processes every mutation in the database.
JCS/Dolmen implemented a module to register and handle every mutation in the CBB database and publish the changed data on a message queue. They developed a web service which enables the partners to get messages through a queuing mechanisme. Standard J2EE security next to a HTTPS secured channel is used to secure the communication. Every partner is able to configure which data will be send and for which enterprises the partner would like to receive updates. In short, JCS/Dolmen succeeded in implementing a database synchronisation application, using web services over the Internet as communication channel.
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JetBrains
![Image]() Well, SOMEONE sure is excited about JavaPolis!!
Though Bony the WonderDog won't be attending the conference this year, you should see how excited he gets when we mention "JavaPolis"… of course, he gets just as excited when we mention "cookies" or "walk", but that's pretty much the same as most of the developers on the JetBrains team :-)
We're all really looking forward to another year at JavaPolis, so we have some announcements to make:
1) JUG members and leaders can drop by our booth anytime during the conference to speak with David Booth about making arrangements for speakers, free stuff for your JUG, and to share some great ideas for helping your JUG grow.
2) TeamCity, our newest Integrated Team Environment for Continuous Integration and Build Management is growing fast, and we're hoping to make an announcement about it during the week.
3) Since IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 has just recently been released, we're going to be bundling it with TeamCity, and giving away some free licenses during the show.
4) You honestly hoped that we'd tell you everything here? And ruin the surprise?? Let's just say that if you're into
Web 2.0 Development or the Next Generation of Continuous Integration
, you're going to want to check out these presentations. Especially if you're interested in earning while you learn :-)
All the best, see you soon,
Dave
www.jetbrains.com?javapolis
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Perforce Fast Software Configuration Management with WebSphere & Eclipse
Perforce is the Fast SCM system that is built to provide maximum control over software development with minimum interference - an essential ingredient for Java development projects.
To enable Java developers to work with Perforce natively from within WebSphere and Eclipse, the Perforce Plug-in for WebSphere Studio, P4WSAD, was developed to work with any of the WebSphere Studio WorkBench family of products.
Key P4WSAD Features include:
- Support for all basic Perforce file operations.
- Built-in file diff, merge, rename, and move.
- Batch conflict resolution of merged files.
- Automatic file checkout and numbered change lists.
- Icons for Perforce-managed files, including indicators for files that are synced, opened, locked, or unresolved.
- Support for Offline Working
- Check Consistency: Reconciles differences between your local workspace
and the current state of the repository
Perforce is a compelling solution for software development projects: it runs on standard hardware, is free to try, is backed by high-quality Technical Support and is used by over 200,000 developers in over 4,000 organisations including some of the world's largest software development teams,
e.g. Google, SAP and Symantec.
You are invited to try Perforce with WebSphere and Eclipse for as longas you wish and without obligation. A free 2-user, 5-client edition can be downloaded today from
www.perforce.com. Complimentary technical support is available during your evaluation.
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Ardatis
![Image]() The XP experience - Retrospective
In XP you work in short iterations. At the end of each iteration a retrospective is held. The team as a whole looks back at the past iteration. What did we do well? What did we do wrong? Not that we like to fingerpoint a team member. The purpose is to improve the process, to incorporate the lessons learned. Hence the encountered problems are summarized, discussed. Actions are defined. Leads are identified.
You see in XP we do not need a huge set of procedures oracled by a 'quality guru' in his ivory tower. Improving quality is a concern of every team member, it is inherently build in the XP methodology.
Another benefit of looking back on a regular basis, is that it makes it possible to react fast. Problems can be tackled before they get the chance to endanger the project.
At last but certainly not at least, there is no need to get frustrated as a developer. If something boggles you, just bring it up during the retrospective. That's why it is fun to work in a team practicing XP.
Koen Roevens, Software Architect, Cegeka-Ardatis
Would you like to know more about pair programming? We invite you to attend Javapolis 2006 and 'the extreme programming experience' at the booth of Cegeka-Ardatis! Or take a look at
www.ardatis-software-factory.com
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Borland CodeGear™ a Borland company
JBuilder® 2007, Built on Eclipse, Accelerates Collaborative Development for Java™, Open Source and the Web Enterprise-Class IDE Integrates Open Source and Commercial Development
Are you waiting for Borland JBuilder® on Eclipse?
This year CodeGear™, a Borland Company, announced to release JBuilder® 2007, the first release of JBuilder® based on Eclipse.
Borland JBuilder® is an innovative, high-productive development tool used by a wide spectrum of software developers ranging from individuals to enterprise teams. JBuilder® 2007 brings accelerated development with its renowned RAD and collaborative capabilities, making development fast and reliable for Java™, open source and the web. JBuilder® 2007 increases team velocity with P2P, Visual EJB, web services designers, Java™ 5 Enterprise functionality, TeamInsight and full UML modeling.
Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said, "JBuilder 2007 delivers enterprise-class capabilities that complement and extend the Eclipse platform, helping organizations and developers to better manage distributed teams and development. We are pleased that CodeGear has chosen Eclipse for building its next generation JBuilder IDE, which we expect to be a major new product in the Eclipse ecosystem."
Want to find out more about JBuilder® 2007?
Come and visit us at our booth at JavaPolis and attend our presentation at December 13th @15.10 hours in room 6.
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Canoo Beyond AJAX - Java Rich Internet Applications
UltraLightClient (
http://www.canoo.com/ulc/) is a Java library that enables the development
of Rich Internet Applications that are based entirely on Java.
It bridges the gap between Swing UI components and a server-side Java EE architecture.
Find out how UltraLightClient will save money and reduce your time-to-market:
Develop and Deploy Web Applications Faster
Significant speed-up of development, deployment and production.
For example:
A Canoo customer cut project time and cost in half by avoiding the complexities of distributed programming.
* Future Secure
Leverages future enhancements of the standard Java platform.
Profit from current and future Java developments by building your next-generation Web applications with UltraLightClient. Canoo offers a mature and standardized technology to build robust and reliable Rich Internet Applications end-to-end in Java.
Get your free trial today! http://www.canoo.com/ulc/
Canoo Engineering is a leader in Web application development and delivers Java-based software, consulting services and products. The company is based in Basel, Switzerland.
Come and listen to Canoo speakers at JavaPolis '06:
http://www.javapolis.com/confluence/display/JP06/Beyond+Ajax+-+Java+Rich+Internet+Applications
http://www.javapolis.com/confluence/display/JP06/Scripting+with+Java
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ESRI See ESRI's Java-based Solutions
ESRI invites you to our booth #13 for presentations of select software from our new release, ArcGIS 9.2, including demonstrations of our geographic information system (GIS) solutions utilizing Java technology.
GIS is used in numerous industries including utilities, the public sector, and commercial businesses to manage and visualize spatial information for facility management, routing and logistics, and business operations. ESRI provides Java-based developer products that allow you to build custom desktop or server GIS applications or embed GIS functionality in existing applications.
In our booth, we will be featuring ArcGIS Server 9.2, which is a complete Web GIS for spatial data management, visualization, and analysis. It's open and interoperable, and supports a broad range of clients including
ArcGIS Explorer, out-of-the-box browser-based applications,
ArcGIS Mobile, and ArcGIS Desktop.
You can also hear more about the
ESRI Developer Network (EDN). This program provides you with tools that increase productivity, foster a collaborative environment, and reduce the cost and complexity of doing GIS development. Be sure to enter the chance to win a one-year subscription to EDN in our booth.
For more information about Java and GIS, please attend our presentation Wednesday, December 13, 3:10-4:10 in room 9, entitled 'Location-based J2EE Application Development Made Simple' by
Sudhakar Ramakrishnan, ESRI product manager for ArcGIS Server.
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IBM SOA with Apache Tuscany
The Apache Tuscany project moves Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) into reality by creating a next-generation services infrastructure based on the principles behind the Service Component Architecture (SCA). With Apache Tuscany, application developers will be able to create, assemble, and deploy SOA applications in ways that are not easily done with existing middleware. Tuscany allows SOA applications to be reconfigured, reorganized or reused based on changing business needs, without a heavy development hit.
Apache Tuscany, undergoing incubation at the Apache Software Foundation, provides implementations of the SCA specifications and related technologies such as Service Data Objects (SDO) and Data Access Service (DAS). The overall goal of the project is to provide an open-source runtime platform to simplify the implementation of SOA-based applications that can be written in various programming languages such as Java, C++, _javascript_, Ruby or BPEL. Tuscany integrates with well established Web Services and server technologies such as Apache Axis2, Tomcat and Geronimo and has an extremely extensible architecture allowing integration of further containers, frameworks and languages.
Andrew Borley, IBMer and Tuscany committer, will be presenting "Apache Tuscany - Not the Same Old Architecture" at Javapolis 2006. Come along to find out more or see the Tuscany project site at
http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany
Copyright © 2006, The Apache Software Foundation
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Intersystems Come and see how to reduce Java development time by 40% at JavaPolis2006
InterSystems Caché is a powerful object database and rapid application development environment. Caché lets developers work within familiar and productive object-oriented environments, but it also provides high-performance SQL access to all data. Without mapping. Now, Caché becomes even more attractive to Java developers with the inclusion of InterSystems Jalapeño technology.
Introducing Jalapeño Technology
InterSystems Jalapeño is hot new technology that automatically derives Caché classes from plain old Java class definitions. Jalapeño allows Java programmers to work within their favourite development environment – and not even think about the mechanics of how their data will be stored. And of course, when data is persisted in Caché, it automatically becomes available via both object and relational access.
How Much Time Could You Save?
That depends on the project. But published industry estimates say that the time required to map Java classes to a relational data-base can soak up as much as 40% of your total development time. That was the experience of Iran Hutchinson, a Software Systems Architect at IBM. He is developing a call centre application with Java –and using Jalapeño to persist his data in Caché.
To learn more, visit us during JavaPolis, stand 17 and attend our presentation on December 14th at 5.50 pm in room 5,
or visit
www.InterSystemsBenelux.com/JavaPolis and register to get your thermostatic mug when you visit us at JavaPolis.
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ACA IT-Solutions ACA IT-Solutions and
Canon Europe together at Javapolis 2006
Heads up! ACA IT-Solutions and Canon Europe have teamed up for this year's Javapolis and our booth will be packed with the coolest stuff! Not only will we be showcasing some very original Java solutions, but in addition we will bring free goodies for everyone who passes by our booth. Last but not least you can win a load of nice Canon products just by... well, you'll see! Drop by, have a look and be amazed.
To top it off, mark your conference agenda on December 15th, between 12:45 and 13:45 so you don't miss the presentation on
Real world web services with JAX-WS by Stijn Van den Enden. See you there!
ACA IT-Solutions
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Atos Origin Atos Origin: productivity and predictability of Open Source solutions without the risk
Today, we are all convinced that Open Source software has reached a high level of maturity in a large set of business domains. Responding to our client's expectations, Atos Origin has developed a full, professional and coherent services offer that renders our customers confident in our capacity to safely introduce, develop and maintain OS solutions in their IT systems. In this context:
• We manage an international competence centre dedicated to OS solutions that aims to maintain a strong expertise and to share the knowledge gained during the implementation of our large integration projects.
• We have formalized a methodology – QSOS – allowing to perform a structured rational analysis, leading to an objective evaluation of any OS solution (see
www.qsos.org – e.g. recently used for a comparative study for the French "Assemblée Nationale", who is planning the deployment of full open source workstations).
• We cover the entire life cycle – from consultancy to full implementation of integration projects.
• We support and maintain solutions built with OS components and we guarantee a service level agreed with our customers (
e.g. guaranteed resolution time for critical components).
To face the growth of these services, we need young, enthusiastic and dynamic people, from Java developers to solution architects. So Javapolians, do not hesitate and welcome aboard on
www.atosorigin.com or on our booth!
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Iona Visit IONA at Javapolis 2006
Do you want to know more about how today's Java technologies are being deployed is successful distributed SOA infrastructures? Do you want to learn how emerging Java standards are influencing SOA deployments? If so, you should visit booth # 28 and talk to IONA. We've been leaders in standards-based, distributed computing for more than 15 years and can help you get the best return on your SOA investment. To learn more about IONA and its distributed SOA infrastructure solutions prior to Javapolis, please visit
www.iona.com.
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LogicaCMG Java professional what are you blogging about?
At LogicaCMG we take blogging seriously. Blogging is a part of competence development, knowledge sharing and personal growth. For that purpose LogicaCMG has started his own blog at
www.bloggingaboutjava.org. Java professionals from LogicaCMG share their Java thoughts and challenges with the worldwide Java Community.
What's happening on the blog? an overview of recent topics:
Having fun with Spring AOP
Aspect Oriented Programming has always been something that is theoretically beautiful but unfeasible in practice to apply…
Do the ui with double-u
It's framework time. Again. We'll probably never learn. And on one hand it's good we do not learn. Creativity is partly based on exploring the unlearned…
Productivity versus design
In his excellent written article The state of design Steven Devijver makes some intriguing comments on common design principles. While advertising the principle of simplicity …
Who needs an architect?
I came across this rather old article while I was searching for certifications that will lift my career, or the careers of my colleagues, into unexpected dimensions…
Interested in sharing your thoughts?
Discuss your Java thoughts, problems and challenges with the LogicaCMG Java community.
Share your passion for Java with us @ www.bloggingaboutjava.org
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Microsoft Using Eclipse IDE with Microsoft's Team Foundation Server for source code control and work item tracking
Teamprise is a suite of client applications for accessing Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server from outside of the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Teamprise enables software development teams to use the source control and work item tracking features of Team Foundation Server from within the Eclipse IDE, and from other operating systems, including Linux and Mac OS X.
Implemented in Java, Teamprise will run on operating systems that support a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4 or newer. Using the Teamprise Client Suite in conjunction with Visual Studio 2005 Team System, enterprise companies can now standardize on the use of Microsoft's Team Foundation Server for the Application Life-Cycle Management needs of both their .NET and Java development teams.
More information on Team Foundation Server: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/aa718825.aspx
More information on Teamprise: http://www.teamprise.com/product/index.html
Visit the Microsoft booth at Javapolis for more information.
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Qualogy JBoss Seam
Java Enterprise Edition 5 is here. It's new, it's sparkling and it contains many new features. The two main ones are EJB 3.0 and JSF. In itself these are very nice aspects of JEE5, but it may be hard to glue these two technologies together. This is where Seam jumps in. Instead of letting developers work on integration and implementing common problems, it enables them to focus on the important areas: the actual business issues.
Previous EJB specifications are infamous for the complexity and the intrusive nature. EJB 3.0 evolved this into being a fine-grained component model. Basically, an EJB nowadays is nothing more than a plain old java object (POJO) with annotations. This makes it possible to create lightweight components containing session and entity beans. Seam even encourages the use of session beans as action listeners and entity as backing beans for JSF components. At first I was worried that this was the only way to make things work with Seam, but luckily Seam does not enforce this. It is easily possible to create extra architectural layers to abstract your domain layer from the presentation layer. It is you who makes the decision, not Seam.
Read the whole article on http://www.qualogy.com/nl/cases.asp
Conclusion
Seam makes it easy to integrate EJB
3.0 and JSF. It helps you to focus on the key points of your application. This saves development time and prevents having to create proprietary in-house solutions for common things.
Sander Nieuwenhuizen
J2EE consultant
e-mail: Sander Nieuwenhuizen
web :
www.qualogy.com
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Webmedia Aranea 1.0 Final Release Available
October 13th, 2006 by Jevgeni Kabanov
We are glad to announce the immediate availability of Aranea Web Framework
1.0 final release.
Aranea 1.0 is the first stable release of Aranea Web Framework. The API are now fully frozen until 2.x release cycle and documentation includes a 120+ pages Reference Manual, an Introductory Tutorial, a Hands-On Tutorial, Technical Report, Javadoc API and example applications. The framework is widely used in-house in both large and small projects and by now has been successfully deployed to production in most of them.
Aranea is an Open-Source Object-Oriented Web Application Framework that focuses on integration, maintainability and reuse.
Our vision of Aranea includes three main themes:
1. An Object-Oriented Framework. Aranea provides the component model based on static types and usual objects that facilitates applying Object-Oriented design to achieve a high level of maintainability and reuse. It also provides an extensive reusable component library that helps build complex and dynamic user interfaces.
2. A Lightweight Web Application Integration Platform. Using Aranea component object model it becomes trivial to integrate and assemble seamlessly applications from disparate components. And since a whole application can be considered just a component it is just as simple to integrate whole applications, even dynamically. Aranea can be seen as a viable lightweight alternative to Portlets, especially with remote integration on the way.
3. A Web Framework Integration Platform. Instead of competing with the numerous web frameworks, we want to harness their power and variety by integrating them with Aranea. We'd like to enable developers to make use of any framework features or components they find useful in their applications and Aranea to serve as glue among the application components. We especially want to support making different components or parts of application using different framework, as different requirements command different approaches.
The next step in Aranea development will focus on the third theme, which at the moment is represented in prototype stage only. Our first candidates for integration are
Google Web Toolkit, Java Server Faces and
Struts, with the rest to follow later. We expect to present a working integration demo on the
JavaPolis 2006 conference in December.
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