Java 'Event-transformers' evolving and developing Real Time EDA Applications

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Robin Smith's Blog | August 6, 2007  11:59 PM | Comments (0)

Over the years I have been able to develop applications in many languages, with by far my favorites being 370/Assembler and C. The intense pleasure of manipulating a processor register-by-register to perform complex calculations and execute at high speed was a joy to behold. My ability to closely handle memory operations and produce sophisticated solutions, which only I could eventually debug and maintain was sheer delight (and great for job retention!).

However, those days are now passing, and as the adoption and creativity of the Java language has grown over the last 10 years or so, I, like so many others, understand the overwhelming benefits that this language can bring, such as accelerating the time to market of solutions giving Enterprise's a competitive edge, ease of maintenance, and the significant cost saving in resources and development for the Enterprise, to name just a few.

Advances in Java infrastructure solutions such as the WebLogic Real Time product, which can provide the low latency determinism needed for Real Time Java applications, without developers giving up the wide range of Java language benefits, especially its memory management abilities, will surely facilitate an increasing rise amongst the Java community building these types of next generation applications. 

To further advance towards the ease of use and accelerated development goal for Java Real time applications, a new feature set for the Eclipse IDE will make its entrance into the developer "domain" later this week, with the general worldwide availability of the WebLogic Event Server Development Environment, providing Java developers with the ability to dynamically create, deploy (publish) and debug EDA-based Enterprise strength applications, as highlighted recently in the dev2dev screencast.

To get to “grips” with the real value of using the Java language in general, BEA has produced a new whitepaper to “wash away” the muddy waters on this topic and clearly identify the cost benefits and other factors involved, so that companies can make a more objective decision moving forward with new infrastructure solution projects. If you want to read more on this subject then I recommend the “Total Cost of Ownership: A Comparison of C/C++ and Java” whitepaper which is now available and can provide some valuable insight.

The new WebLogic Real Time and WebLogic Event Server products are now generally available worldwide, so please take some time to review the new dev2dev pages, EDSOA information and then download the products for evaluation.

Watch this space for a new WebLogic Event Server monitoring dashboard value add-on feature arriving in a few weeks, to enable users to investigate the deployed (published) EPA (EPN) Applications and related statistics, such as node-level message through-put and latency values.

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