ETech 2006 CFP
Now Open -- O'Reilly's Emerging Technology
Conference 2006 is scheduled for March 6-9 in San Diego. We invite
technologists, strategists, CTOs, chief scientists, researchers,
programmers, hackers, standards workers, business developers, and
entrepreneurs to lead sessions and tutorials at ETech. This year's
challenge focuses on the amazing amount of digital data in our worlds:
how do we visualize the data, filter it, remix it, and access it in
meaningful ways? Proposals are due by September 19th.
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What Is Business Process
Modeling? -- Business Process Modeling (BPM) is a
set of technologies and standards for the design, execution,
administration, and monitoring of business processes. In this article,
Mike Havey briefly describes the state of BPM today and the BPM
standards, then builds an ideal BPM architecture using the example of a
retailer process. Mike is the author of Essential
Business Process Modeling.
Getting Started with Maven -- In
this excerpted chapter titled "Maven Jump-Start," Vincent Massol and
Timothy M. O'Brien show you how to install Maven, kick off your first
build, and start investigating its features for integrating with IDEs
and source control systems. Vincent and Timothy are the authors of Maven: A Developer's
Notebook.
Java City: The Java Enterprise Ecosystem -- Should
we worry about promoting a healthy Java community? Or is everything
just fine in Java City? Jim Farley asks you to weigh in on these
questions, and others, in the Talkbacks. He plans a followup article
summarizing what you have to say. Your comments may help to shape
content in Jim's upcoming book, Java Enterprise
in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition, due out in the fall.
How to Talk About Jini, J2EE, and Web Services at a
Cocktail Party -- Heard about distributed
technologies for Java, but not quite sure what they are or why they're
important? Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates show you how to hold your own in
conversation with Java geeks with this cocktail-party overview. Kathy
and Bert are the authors of Head First Java, 2nd
Edition.
Playing Movies in a Java 3D World, Part 1
-- The ability to play a movie clip inside of a Java 3D
scene opens up opportunities for richer, more interesting 3D content.
Andrew Davison describes how he implemented a Java 3D movie screen,
using the Java Media Framework (JMF) Performance Pack for Windows
v.2.1.1e, as well as J2SE 5.0 and Java 3D 1.3.2. Andrew is the author
of Killer Game
Programming in Java.
Developing for the Web with Ant, Part 2
-- In part one of this two-part excerpt, Steve Holzner
covered packaging web applications. In this second installment, Steve
covers the tasks for deploying web apps with get,
serverdeploy, and scp. Steve is the author of
Ant: The
Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition.
History
of Programming Languages -- For 50 years, computer
programmers have been writing code, and now, there are more than 2,500
documented programming languages. O'Reilly has produced a poster called
History of Programming Languages, which plots over 50
programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline. The
poster is available online in PDF format, but while supplies last, U.S.
residents can also get a hard copy of the poster free when purchasing
two books through oreilly.com.
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Five Things I Love About Spring --
For hardcore enterprise development, Bruce Tate turns to Spring, the
topic of his fourth Java book. In this article, Bruce describes five
reasons why he is hooked on Spring. Bruce is the coauthor of Spring: A
Developer's Notebook.
Developing for the Web with Ant, Part 1
-- Developing for the web is bread and butter for Ant
developers. In part one of this two-part excerpt, Steve Holzner covers
the tasks specifically designed for packaging web applications,
including war, cab, ear, and
jspc. Steve is the author of Ant: The Definitive
Guide, 2nd Edition.
Generic Types, Part 2 -- In part
one of this two-part excerpt, David Flanagan described how to use
generic types. This week, David details how to write your own generic
types and generic methods, and concludes with a tour of important
generic types in the core Java API. David is the author of Java in a Nutshell,
5th Edition.
Generic Types, Part 1 -- In part
one of this two-part excerpt, David Flanagan explores the basic use of
generics in typesafe collections, and then delves into their more
complex uses. In addition, he covers type parameter wildcards and
bounded wildcards. In part two next week, David tackles how to write
your own generic types and generic methods. David is the author of Java in a Nutshell,
5th Edition.
Breaking the Last Dependency -- As Head First
Design Patterns was about to go to press, Erich Gamma sent
Elisabeth and Eric Freeman a note suggesting that, in the factory
pattern chapter, they should break the last dependency and show how to
write code that does away with concrete classes completely, a logical
next step. While this new approach didn't make the book's deadline, it
is the highlight of their java.net feature article. Elisabeth and Eric
are coauthors of Head
First Design Patterns.
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