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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ll be away this week from June 1-5 attending the Sun JavaOne Conference in beautiful San Francisco. I plan to expand my knowledge of advanced J2EE/SOA topics as well as pick up some introductory courses on new technologies. If you want to meet up to discuss any of my recent articles, the conference, or how [...]