• Technical books from Manning Publications
• Technical books from Addison-Wesley
• $20 gift certificate for Softpro Books
- 6 p.m. Basic Concepts (see details below)
- 6:50 p.m. Food and soft drinks
- 7:15 p.m. Announcements
- 7:20-8:45 p.m. Main speaker
9 Apr Bitter EJB: Learning from Antipatterns
7:15-8:45 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, 2003
Location: Qwest Auditorium (map)
Cost: Free
Enterprise JavaBeans is a server-side component technology intended to help solve a particular class of business problems. Despite these good intentions, the technology often comes up short. In some cases, the technologies can let us down. In others, we can stumble blindly into common pitfalls.
This presentation will tour designs gone bad -- expressed as
antipatterns -- when session, entity, and message-driven beans are
misused. Along the way we'll explore common architecture, design,
and performance antipatterns discussed in the upcoming book, "Bitter
EJB." Taking a lesson from each antipattern presented, we'll discuss
practical solutions. Finally, we'll examine antipatterns related to the
EJB performance-tuning process and learn how to use JUnitPerf to tune
with confidence.
Speaker:
Mike Clark is president and principal consultant of Clarkware
Consulting, Inc., offering pragmatic software
architecture, design, development, and performance consulting and
mentoring services.
Mike has been crafting software professionally for 10 years, with five
years of Java expertise focused on server-side development using J2EE
technologies. He is a co-author of the upcoming book, "Bitter EJB"
(Manning), expected to be published this spring. He has also developed
several open-source tools, including JUnitPerf, a collection of JUnit
extensions for continuous performance testing. In addition, Mike
regularly speaks on his experiences in the trenches helping teams build
better software faster.
Resources:
Clarkware.com
JUnitPerf
Bruce Tate's Java performance pigs
Bitter Java, Bruce Tate, Chapter 1 download from Manning (.pdf)
Bitter EJB
Download presentation files: 200205_IntroToJ2EE.zip (PowerPoint)
Basic Concepts Group
The 6 p.m. session is for learning basic concepts. Questions are encouraged. Come early and stay for the main presentation, which is focused on more advanced concepts. Registration is not required and there is no registration fee.
9 Apr Basic Concepts: Introduction to Antipatterns Description: AntiPatterns are solutions that create more problems than they solve. Antipatterns allow us to understand when and how to apply patterns and solutions within a particular context and when not to apply them. Through antipatterns, we can use a common vocabulary to describe our misery and help each other stay clear of pitfalls. Come learn some basic antipatterns, how to avoid them, and how to recover from them. Speaker: Scott Davis, DenverJUG President Resources: Bitter Java, Bruce Tate, Chapter 1 download from Manning (.pdf) |
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