Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Oracle acquired Collaxa and launches Oracle BPEL Process Manager In the General Session yesterday, Thomas Kurian, Senior VP, Oracle Application Server made an announcements Oracle acquired Collaxa and Oracle launched  Oracle BPEL Process Manager. This makes Oraclet's SOA stack complete and more attracting than its competitors.   10:27:45 AM    comment []

EJB 3.0 Elephantastic ! Linda Demichiel's presentation on "EJB 3.0 - Work in Progress" was house full. This was mainly a repeat of her presentation at TSS Symposium. You can take a look at the Public Draft of EJB 3.0 and pass on your comments to the EJB 3.0 expert committee. They also have a BOF tonight to take user feedback. You can read me previous blog EJB 3.0 - looks simply great that summarizes the radical changes being made in EJB 3.0. One attendee commented "This looks fantastic .. rather Elephantastic and they have addressed all the concerns we had 10:13:59 AM    comment []

Incorrect title, invalid contents I attended a so-called Advanced talk on "Using EJB components as web service". There was hardly any info on this presentation that was relevant for EJBs. Mostly ended up as WS-I  talk. Who the hell expect to hear in an advanced talk that None of the J2EE containers support exposing MDBs, Entity beans etc as web services .. 10:03:15 AM    comment []

Taming the Tiger, Not Really   I attended this presentation by Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter and was unimpressed. There was not much information rather you would be better off if your read the J2SE 1.5 documentation. Joshua was using too much body language and screwing up with slides by his remote. Neal was much better.There was no time for Q &A. I chatted with Neal and  I was disappointed to know that they are not addressing the 64K size limit of Java classes in the Tiger release and did not reveal too much how they are addressing to reduce the size of generated classes. To me, the tiger release seems to just around stealing some syntaxes from older languages Pascal, C and all around annotations. 9:49:04 AM    comment []

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