Hello! (my First Dev2Dev Editor's post)
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April 17, 2008 9:37 AM
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Hi. As I mentioned in my first personal post a couple days ago, I am taking over for your long-time Dev2Dev editor-in-chief Jon Mountjoy, who is moving on to new employment. The transition has been a little hectic, hence this first official Dev2Dev Editor's blog from me is a day late.
I'm excited to be able to participate in the Dev2Dev community, and look forward to a long and fruitful engagement. A bit about my background: I've been developing software for a very long time, starting in my high school in the early 1970s, where I had the opportunity to write programs using the language APL over a teletype terminal that was connected to an IBM 360 at a nearby university. My programs were stored on paper tape! I can still remember taking carefully rolled coils of yellow paper tape back and forth between home and school...
My interest in computer technology and software development remained and grew into a professional career that has included quite a few different platforms and technologies. In the 1998-2003 period I did a lot of work in Java (both software development and technical review of books), and I also worked on a partnership between my company and BEA, where we would have used WebLogic as the basis of an online document archive and bill payment system. Unfortunately, changing business conditions prevented that project from fully taking off... Take a look at my introductory post if you'd like further details on my background.
Now, a quick summary of recent Dev2Dev happenings.
First, an announcement: the Workshop Team's Bi-Annual Framework Survey is now underway. As Chris Nguyen reports, the purpose of this survey is to "gauge the most popular frameworks in the Java community." There are other benefits, too: all participants are entered into a free drawing for a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate and a free discount for purchasing Workshop Studio.
 Our current featured Articles include SPECjms2007: A Novel Benchmark and Performance Analysis Framework for Message-Oriented Middleware, by Samuel Kounev and Kai Sachs. In this article, Samuel and Kai talk about the details and merits of the SPECjms2007 message-oriented middleware (MOM) industry-standard benchmark.
 Meanwhile, Gary Horen shows how to develop Ajax applications using Aptana's free JavaScript editor and debugger, in conjunction with BEA Workshop and the Firebug plugin for Firefox, in his article Ajax Programming with BEA Workshop.
Do take a look at these if you haven't done so already.
In BEA Education Services News, Yu-Ting has announced that Training on new BEA AquaLogic Platform is now available. New courses are being offered to support the AquaLogic 3.0 platform. For information about all BEA Education opportunities, visit the BEA Education Services site.
In the Blogs, Chris Tomkins has written a post titled AquaLogic Service Bus v3.0 - Getting started with Workspace Studio that tells you how to add a server, create an ALSB project, create and deploy ALSB resources, and more.
Jesper Joergensen wrote about the upcoming BEA Participate event, and about the developing story of BPMN and BPEL.
And Chris Hogue announced the release of Event Server Developer Tools 2.1
The Dev2Dev Media Center archive features:
In the Event Calendar take note of these upcoming events:
The current Poll asks "Have you used BEA Guardian?" Please participate by voting on the home page.
The previous poll asked "Have you heard about the Service Component Architecture (SCA)." 8% (12 votes) are actually using SCA, 32% (48) have heard about it, but the majority of folk 60% (89) have not. Find out about Service Component Architecture if you aren't yet aware of what it is.
A the Security Advisories and Notifications, advisory BEA08-201.00 has just been posted. This is a high-threat, high-severity advisory regarding multiple security vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment. The advisory affects BEA JRockit R27.5.0 and prior.
That's it for today. Feel free to comment and send me any suggestions you may have.
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Hi Kevin,
Welcome to your new post. I am a frequent user of the Dev 2 Dev site, having developed within the ALUI framework and its forebears for over 4 years, and now with BPM since version 6.0 was made available.
Both these environments support development in both Java and .Net, so could I ask that the Dev2Dev editorial team consider the .Net developers amongst us? For a long time the Dev2Dev site has been very Java centric. I'm not trying to open a debate about which language is best, (interested readers can find many web sites devoted to just this topic), but as the BEA product architects have chosen to support both in BEA's offerings shouldn't Dev2Dev do likewise?
Good luck with the blog - I look forward to your next posting.
Charles Hall
Posted by: hallch on April 17, 2008 at 10:02 PM
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Hi Charles,
Thanks for educating me about this. I'm still feeling my way, and have not yet had a chance to fully delve into what's available within today's BEA product suite.
I agree that Dev2Dev should support the .NET AquaLogic community, and now that I know this community exists, I'll put that into my future planning.
Thanks for the welcome!
Kevin
Posted by: kfarnham on April 17, 2008 at 10:24 PM
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If we put the admin server in cluster then can the admin server control the managed servers that are outside the cluster.
Posted by: Devi.k on April 18, 2008 at 6:33 AM
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Hi Devi.k. The Dev2Dev Newsgroups are probably the best place to ask this question:
http://forums.bea.com/category.jspa?categoryID=400000001
Posted by: kfarnham on April 25, 2008 at 7:26 PM
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