Can you build a custom dynamic Web content management solution and a
high-performance dynamic professional sports Web site from scratch on J2EE in
a short period of time? Oh yes, it must have Fortune 500 sophistication and
be delivered within a midmarket budget. Impossible? Well, that's exactly what
Braegen Group, Inc. (www.braegen.com), a Toronto-based e-business solution
provider, recently accomplished for Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd.
(MLSE), owners of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team. Braegen's breakthrough
Web content management software, called Oriel, is among the first software
products in the market to take advantage of "Power Servlets," the servlet
middleware technology from Espressiv, Inc (www.espressiv.com).
Formed in 1927, the Toronto Maple Leafs is one of the NHL's oldest and most
decorated hockey teams. Leaf fans are fiercely loyal, hoping f... (more)
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed how the use of messaging software can
alleviate some of the problems with integration of J2EE and .NET environments
using Web services. In this article we will discuss implementation of the
proposed architecture on both J2EE and .NET platforms, along with possible
enhancements of the proposed solution.
All of the code referenced in this article is available for download from
www.sys-con.com/websphere/sourcec.cfm.
Implementing the .NET Client
Although support pack MA07 supports all the basic functionality of WebSphere
MQ and is implemented based on the WebSphere MQ Java object model,
implementation of interoperability with a JMS-based J2EE implementation poses
the following challenges:
1. Implementation of JMS for WebSphere MQ introduces the RFH2 header, which
is used by this implementation to support JMS-required features (e.g.,... (more)
"The new architecture and the results companies will achieve will be truly
revolutionary, but the path to the new successor product line will be
evolutionary," said Oracle Senior Vice President of Applications Development
John Wookey back in January, when he detailed plans for "Project Fusion" - a
next generation information-oriented architecture and application set
supporting the best features, flows and usability traits of Oracle,
PeopleSoft and JD Edwards products.
This week sees the fulfillment of that vison, with the announcement of
"Oracle Fusion Middleware," the rebranding of that product line.
"The new combined organization, comprised of the best talent in the
enterprise software industry, will provide customers with greater innovation,
support and expertise across industries," said Wookey at the time. "Our goal
is to help customers achieve unprecedented leve... (more)
Appcelerator announced that it has updated its platform to allow applications
built using Appcelerator to be deployed to the free new Google App Engine.
Used together, the offerings give developers a fast route to developing,
deploying, managing and scaling their applications.
Appcelerator is an integrated platform that fuses RIA and service-oriented
architecture (SOA). With Appcelerator, developers can assemble rich,
interactive web applications without the need for JavaScript or player-based
plug-ins. Web applications can be implemented on Java/J2EE, PHP, Ruby, .NET,
Python and Perl. Appcelerator for App Engine runs on Python, the scripting
language currently supported by App Engine. As Google expands support to
other languages, Appcelerator for App Engine will follow suit.
App Engine has generated so much interest since its April 8 introduction
because it fundame... (more)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sun Microsystems, Inc.
today announced that it is expanding its successful Sun Startups
Essentials(SM) program into the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India to
help early stage companies get up and running quickly while conserving cash
in these emerging markets. The program (http://www.sun.com/startupessentials)
offers startups discounts on a range of Sun's industry-leading technologies
and services and the ability to subscribe to Web hosting services from Sun
partners at deeply discounted rates.
In today's market, early stage companies are challenged to bring highly
available and scalable applications to market quickly and cost-effectively.
These startup companies are constantly looking for ways to become more
efficient with limited resources while planning for long-term success. Sun
provides startups wit... (more)
JDJ's Enterprise Editor, Yakov Fain (pictured) writes: If you are planning to
hit the job market, you may need to refresh some of the Java basic terms
and techniques to prepare yourself for a technical interview. Let me offer
you some of the core Java questions that you might expect during the
interviews.
For most questions I’ve provided only short answers to encourage
further research. I have included only questions for mid (*) and senior
level (**) Java developers. These sample questions could also become handy
for people who need to interview Java developers (see also the article
"Interviewing Enterprise Java Developers").
Disclaimer. This article has been originally published three or four years
ago, hundreds of thousands Java developers have read it, but I still use some
of these questions while interviewing Java developers. Guess what? Every
other Jav... (more)
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Wanted: 19 More of the Top Software People in the World Sung and Unsung
i-Technology Heroes Who's Missing from SYS-CON's i-Technology Top Twenty?"
Our search for the Twenty Top Software People in the World is nearing
completion. In the SYS-CON tradition of empowering readers, we are leaving
the final "cut" to you, so here are the top 40 nominations in alphabetical
order.
Our aim this time round is to whittle this 40 down to our final twenty, not
(yet) to arrange those twenty in any order of preference. All you need to do
to vote is to go to the Further Details page of any nominee you'd like to see
end up in the top half of the poll when we close voting on Christmas Eve,
December 24, and cast your vote or votes. To access the Further Details of
each nominee just click on their name. Happy voting!
In alphabetical order the nominees are:
Tim Berner... (more)
The editors of SYS-CON Media's Java Developer's Journal are in a unique
position when it comes to Java development. All are active coders in their
"day jobs," and they have the good fortune in getting a heads-up on many of
the latest and greatest software releases. They were asked to nominate three
products from the last 12 months that they felt had not only made a major
impact on their own development, but also on the Java community as a whole.
The following is a list of each editor's selections and the reason why they
chose that product.
Joe Winchester
Desktop Java Editor
SwingLabs
SwingLabs is an open source laboratory for exploring new ways to make Swing
applications easier to write, with improved performance and greater visual
appeal. It is an umbrella project for various open source initiatives
sponsored by Sun Microsystems and is part of the java.net community... (more)
The Web Tools Project (WTP) by the Eclipse Foundation is a set of open source
tools that substantially reduce the time required for the development of Web
applications, EJBs, and Web services. The WTP's current version is 0.7.1 and
version 1.0 is coming later this year. The framework provides wizards and
tools to create EJBs, Web components such as servlets and JSPs, and Web
services using the Axis engine. It also provides source editors for HTML,
JavaScript, CSS, JSP, SQL, XML, DTD, XSD, and WSDL; graphical editors for
XSD, WSDL, J2EE project builders, models, and a J2EE navigator; a Web service
wizard, explorer, and WS-I Test Tools; and database access, query tools, and
models.
In this article I'll show you how to develop and deploy a JSP Web application
with WTP in less than an hour. I'll also cover the creation and deployment of
a basic servlet and editing JSP ... (more)
I wonder how many people, as I did, found themselves thrown into confusion by
the death last week of Jean Ichbiah (pictured), inventor of Ada.
Learning that the inventor of a computer programming language is already old
enough to have lived 66 years (Ichbiah was 66 when he succumbed to brain
cancer) is a little like learning that your 11-year-old daughter has grown up
and left home or that the first car you ever bought no longer is legal
because it runs on gasoline in an age where all automobiles must run on
water. How can something as novel, as new, as a computing language possibly
already be so old-fangled that an early practitioner like Ichbiah can
already no longer be with us?
The thought was so disquieting that it took me immediately back to the last
time I wrote about Ichbiah, and indeed about Ada Lovelace for whom his
language was named. It was in the context ... (more)
Keith Lea writes of the benchmark, on his results page, "I was sick of
hearing people say Java was slow, when I know it's pretty fast, so I took the
benchmark code for C++ and Java from the now outdated Great Computer Language
Shootout and ran the tests myself."
Lea used G++ (GCC) 3.3.1 20030930 (with glibc 2.3.2-98) for the C++, with the
-O2 flag (for both i386 and i686). He compiled the Java code normally with
the Sun Java 1.4.2_01 compiler, and ran it with the Sun 1.4.2_01 JVM. He ran
the tests on Red Hat Linux 9 / Fedora Test1 with the 2.4.20-20.9 kernel on a
T30 laptop. The laptop "has a Pentium 4 mobile chip, 512MB of memory, a sort
of slow disk," he notes.
The results he got were that Java is significantly faster than optimized C++
in many cases.
"They also show that no one should ever run the client JVM when given the
choice," Lea adds. ("Everyone has the c... (more)
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