Vol. 11 Iss: 2 Read Back Issues

Spring and EJB 3.0 in Harmony The new EJB 3.0 specification supports some notion of dependency injection via annotations. As an avid Spring user, I'm used to configuring fine-grained beans with Spring bean factories and XML. How does EJB 3.0 compare? More importantly, can we use EJB 3.0 POJOs and Spring POJOs side-... Feb. 27, 2006  Reads: 49,570  Replies: 1

Cover Story: What Is POJO Programming? The novel A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge is set in the distant future. The character Pham Nuwen is responsible for maintaining software whose components are thousands of years old. Today, however, it's difficult to imagine maintaining an Enterprise Java application for more than... Feb. 27, 2006  Reads: 85,879  Replies: 8

Where Are the High-Level Design Open Source Tools for Java? I have just finished reviewing the book Open Source Development Tools for Java, which provides excellent coverage of such topics as log4J, CVS, Ant, and JUnit. There is a chapter on UML tools though in which the author almost apologizes for the lack of good open source design tools. Th... Feb. 27, 2006  Reads: 25,847  Replies: 4

Developing Web Services "Eclipse Web Tools Project" Today's trend is to integrate existing systems in a standard way to make disparate implementations interoperate. Web Services and XML came along with the ability to provide a standard communication interface between these systems, as well as the standard description language - WSDL - t... Feb. 27, 2006  Reads: 100,546  Replies: 9

Seam: The Next Step in the Evolution of Web Applications Web sites were originally static. Later dynamic content came about through CGI scripts paving the way for the first true Web applications. Since HTTP was entirely stateless, it became necessary to invent ways for requests to be linked together in a sequence. At first state was added to... Feb. 19, 2006  Reads: 50,026  Replies: 1

Moving to SOA in J2EE 1.4 This past year the J2EE 1.4 specification enjoyed increased adoption by the industry, with most major application server vendors having released their J2EE 1.4 products and more and more enterprises upgrading their application servers and production applications to comply with it. Feb. 18, 2006  Reads: 24,178  Replies: 1

What CIOs Should Know About Outsourcing Enterprise Java Your manager Frank started the meeting by saying that the budget for the new project had been approved, but half of the project will be outsourced to a great team from overseas. Can you imagine, their rates for Java programmers can go as low as $15 an hour! Feb. 16, 2006  Reads: 21,719  Replies: 9

Java J2EE Lite with Spring Framework J2EE applications of late have become weight conscious. The combined burden of EJBs and coarse-grained component design has given the term test driven design a new meaning: technology driven design! Fortunately a host of lightweight solutions are emerging, such as PicoContainer, Spring... Feb. 14, 2006  Reads: 43,076  Replies: 6

As Oracle Recommits to Java, Sun Sweeps 2005 RCAs Every year for the past 10 years, SYS-CON Media's 'Readers' Choice Awards' have given the multiple constituencies we serve - developers, architects, IT managers, vendors - a chance to exercise their democratic rights, not just through the ballot box but also through the nomination proc... Feb. 11, 2006  Reads: 20,029  Replies: 3