DeCare Systems Ireland Blog
Java SE 6 and Java SE 7
My first technical session was about Java SE presented by Danny Coward from
Sun. It was about the current situation of Java SE 6 and the roadmap to Java
SE 7. The talk started with a few encouraging stats. For example,
Java’s performance increased 220% between Java SE 5.0_04 and Java SE
6.0_05P. It’s always nice to hear this kind of good news.
One of the great news about Java is that it has a full open-source JDK now.
Some parts of the JDK couldn’t be open-sourced due to licensing
restrictions. And this situation prevented Java being distributed with Linux.
But it seems like Sun finally found a solution (by shipping them in binary
form I think). OpenJDK is now bundled with Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron). An... (more)
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As Service-Oriented Architectures gain ground, it becomes obvious that their
performance is the key to their success. I'm going to briefly write about two
sessions that I attended in JavaOne 2008. They outline two totally different
approaches from two very different companies. You're going to see that a well
performing SOA implementation requires considerable wo... (more)
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Even though 'Service' comes first in SCA (Service Component Architecture),
SCA is a distributed component model. It's about designing components (and
composites) rather than designing services. It doesn't feel like it was
designed to build a SOA. It feels like its main goal was to define a
distributed component model. And as we all
know, the distributed componen... (more)