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| Survey Winners and Tech Previews of BEA JRockit 6 and WebLogic Server 10 |
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Late last year we held the Annual Dev2Dev Reader Survey. We received over 500 responses and I'm very glad to announce the three winners (randomly drawn): David Watson from Canada, Valentin Crettaz from Switzerland and Dmitriy Blaginin from the USA. Each will receive a $250 Amazon gift certificate. I'll be publishing the results of the survey in the next month or so.
We went out with a bang last year, announcing the tech preview release of WebLogic Server 10. What didn’t make it into this Dispatch was news of the new JRockit and JRockit Tools releases. The announcement on the editor’s blog has full details, but one thing worth pointing out is that there is an now a tech preview of JRockit 6 available too.
Regards,
Jon Mountjoy
Editor, BEA Dev2Dev
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Effective Java Exceptions |
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| One of the biggest architectural decisions for a Java developer is how to use the Java exception model. Barry Ruzek explains how Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) techniques can help you to make the right choices. |
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POJOs in Action |
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| In this book excerpt from POJOs in Action, Chris Richardson explores the benefits and drawbacks of using the Transaction Script pattern and describes how to implement this pattern using POJOs and the Spring framework. |
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| Starting 2007 with Something New, Something Old |
| In Education News, Yu-Ting says that “BEA Education Services is releasing courses on JPA, BEA WebLogic Portal 9, BEA WebLogic Integration 9, and BEA Workshop.” That’s quite lot of new courses, and you can click through for more details.
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| AquaLogic Service Bus and AquaLogic Interaction Development Kit |
| AquaLogic Service Bus 2.6 has just been released. New features include support for some SOAP 1.2 services, Automatic Synchronization of Services from UDDI (interesting, using the AquaLogic Service Registry), a native Data Services Platform transport (a more efficient and flexible approach to accessing data services than exposing them as Web services) and more. Also released this is the AquaLogic Interaction Development Kit (IDK) 5.4. New features include support for Java 5.0, WebLogic Server 9.x, .NET 2.0, new tutorials and more.
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| In the Blogs |
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| WebLogic Server Debug Environment Variables |
| Hussein Badakhchani provides a great blog post listing all the WebLogic Server debug flags that he has collected over the years. A very valuable resource! |
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| WebLogic Portal 9.2 Certification of Oracle RAC is Completed |
| Josh Lannin was the first to blog this year, telling us that WebLogic Portal 9.2 Certification of Oracle RAC is Completed. He adds that the team, "has completed certification of Oracle 10g R2 RAC to provide our customers an option for running their Portal installations against this industry leading high-availability database." |
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| WebLogic Portal 9.2 Maintenance Pack 1 now available |
| In a separate post, Josh tells us that “the first maintenance pack of WebLogic Portal 9.2 is now available for download. This release marks the first use for WLP of BEA’s new maintenance pack model which replaces the service pack model we had in place for our 8.1 products.” He goes on to say that “Maintenance packs, unlike service packs, are designed only to address maintenance issues discovered after a product is made generally available. By design, there are no new features delivered in maintenance packs, which minimizes the risk associated with migrations and upgrades for customers. Also, the absence of new features helps ensure that there are no new software defects that can be introduced into the release.” |
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| Chicken Or Egg (SOA & Reuse) |
| Bob Rhubart in Chicken Or Egg disagrees with a few folk who call reuse a "side effect" of SOA. Bob says that "an organization that doesn't take full advantage of SOA as a platfrom ideally suited for reuse is an organization that will never realize the full business value of SOA." |
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