http://www.bloggingaboutjava.org Blogging about Software Development Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:09:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sun's Java 1.4 has quietly gone end-of-life since 30 October; see Sun's Java SE 1.4.2 page: J2SE 1.4.2 is in its Java Technology End of Life (EOL) transition period. The EOL transition period began Dec, 11 2006 and will complete October 30th, 2008, when J2SE 1.4.2 will have reached its End ... http://www.bloggingaboutjava.org/2008/11/java-14-is-officially-obsolete/ Last thursday I visited a presentation about Process Acceleration (PA) [1]. PA is a Business Change method that also uses separation of concerns: it separates the end result from anything else in the business process. The end result of the process is the success state, i.e. all employees correctly submitted ... http://www.bloggingaboutjava.org/2008/11/process-acceleration/ According to Google Trends SOA is not as "hot" as it was a year ago. According to a recent poll by Finalist [0] at the J-Fall [1] SOA is actually very "not". Does this mean that companies are already preparing or even using SOA? Or are they abandoning SOA? The idea ... http://www.bloggingaboutjava.org/2008/11/separation-of-concerns-and-soa/ Tomorrow is the start of a new 'Pro4Pro season'. Pro4Pro sessions are given by some of the best professionals of Logica. “Extreem RAD : Live Web Applicatie Ontwikkeling met Oracle Application Express” “Standardizing SOA with Oracle's Application Integration Architecture" “Practical Approach to SOA Adoption” Subject: “Extreem RAD : Live Web Applicatie Ontwikkeling met ... http://www.bloggingaboutjava.org/2008/10/pro4pro-season-starting-tomorrow/ Guru4Pro Thomas Erl - - ‘How to overcome the key challenges within SOA’. Date: 20 oktober 2008 On Monday the 20th of October Logica has invited Thomas Erl to speak on the Principles of Service Design and Patterns to transform the most important challenges into a successful realization of a Service Oriented ... http://www.bloggingaboutjava.org/2008/10/guru4pro-thomas-erl-logica-nl/ In the afternoon of November 3 Oracle guru Tom Kyte will talk about "11 Things about 11g" at the Logica office in Amstelveen (near Amsterdam). I have attended this presentation at ODTUG this year and I assure you it's worthwhile! After his presentation Tom will also do an AskTom Live ... http://www.bloggingaboutjava.org/2008/10/tom-kyte-logica/ This was my last day at JAOO. I was tired, but still looking forward to today’s speakers. It was hard to decide what to attend and what not to attend today. I just had to hope that I’ve chosen correctly. The keynote today was held by Richard P. Gabriel and Guy ... http://www.bloggingaboutjava.org/2008/10/jaoo-conference-day-3/ I skipped the introduction of today’s program in order to write up my impression of yesterday instead. The long introduction is boring anyway. I already knew which sessions I wished to attend. Today’s keynote was about Google Chrome and their V8 JavaScript engine. It’s as nifty piece of technology, but wasn’t ... http://www.bloggingaboutjava.org/2008/10/jaoo-conference-day-2/ JAOO: An international software development conference with more than 80 speakers, 3 days of presentations, 3 days of tutorials and about 1400 guests. And all of it right here in Aarhus, Denmark, right on top of where I live and work. I was lucky enough to attend last year, and ... http://www.bloggingaboutjava.org/2008/09/jaoo-conference-day-1/ If you would like to be an Oracle Certified Profressional on a developer level, OCA + Forms was always the only way to go. Until now! Oracle is currently running a beta exam on OCP that includes not Oracle Forms, but goes in deeper to PL/SQL. The official title: Oracle ... http://www.bloggingaboutjava.org/2008/09/new-oracle-developer-certification-professional/