As I sit here listening to my final JavaOne presentation there’s one question that has lingered on everyone’s mind this week: Will there be a JavaOne next year? In case you’ve been living in a cave (or a basement coding), Oracle has purchased Sun, the creators and maintainers of the Java programming language, and Oracle [...]

Live from the JavaOne conference, I’m currently attending a session on JCA specification 1.6 enhancements. According to the specification team, the goal of the new version of the spec is to simplify writing resource adapters (RAs) for those who have not written them in the past or may be new to the specification. In this [...]

I’m blogging live from the floor of the Sun JavaOne Conference in San Francisco today, currently attending a session about the new features of EJB 3.1. This article highlights some of the much-needed features added to the EJB 3.1 specification. 1. EJB Singletons (finally!) The EJB 3.1 specification will support shared session bean instances without [...]