In keeping with the longstanding SYS-CON tradition of being at the very forefront of software development with all its online and offline resources, SYS-CON Media & Events jointly today announced a double whammy, launching both 'Open Web Developer's Journal' (htt p://openweb.sys-con.com) and 'Open Web Developer Summit' (http://openweb.s ys-con.com) - to be held for the first time in New York City April 21-22, 2008.

In this presentation we discuss how a large project implementation introduced hibernate into a WebSphere environment and solved the following problems: Integration with XDE Object/Business Modeling; Integration with XDE Data Modeling (LDM's and PDM's); The challenge of removing human middleware in ORM mapping; challenges XDoclet/Middlegen didn't solve; challenges of coordinating conflicts between database naming standards and object naming standards; challenges of tool integration; challenges of shared code ownership - application developers and business methods vs ORM team and structural methods and relationships; A specification for automating the ORM mapping.

Participants will learn more about emerging technologies that address the problem of the front end - back end. Participants will also learn about a powerful co-development model that speeds J2EE application development by enabling .NET and J2EE developers to co-develop enterprise-class J2EE Web applications and Web services. Also included will be a demonstration of the co-development model on JBoss using a .NET - J2EE version of the Java Petstore, and describe how it presents a sustainable development model.

Implementing a value based caching system non-transparently in a data driven distributed application is straightforward. However, this demands repetitive implementation for each such application. The generality of the problem permits us to move the implementation into the middleware, with minimal support from the application and domain specific details. To bear out this idea, we choose the open-source J2EE application server - JBoss as the middleware supporting the distributed system and stateless session beans as the remote components performing the cacheable work.

This presentation will discuss the new Hibernate3/EJB3 Persistence tools offering. These tools will allow developers to effortlessly create and maintain a persistence tier in their enterprise applications. The focus of this presentation will be to demonstrate the ease of development that is offered by the coupling of Hibernate3, EJB3, and good persistence tools. The presenters will explore their efforts to port, rewrite, and retrofit those tools to better fit into Eclipse so that developers can make the most use out of Hibernate3 and EJB3.

JGroups is a toolkit for reliable multicast communication that can be used to create groups of processes whose members can send messages to each other. JGroups is the distributed framework basis for JBoss Application Server's advanced clustering and failover features. JGroups allows developers to create reliable multipoint (multicast) applications where reliability is a deployment issue, and does not have to be implemented by the application developer. This saves application developers significant amounts of time, and allows for the application to be deployed in different environments, without having to change code

JBossMQ, the current JBoss JMS implementation, while still one of the best open source JMS providers around, could be still further improved in regards of performance and high availability features. The presentation will reveal the current status of the new implementation, will discuss the architectural elements and present preliminary performance data.

This talk will present the development roadmap for the JBoss product suite. The next generation microkernel services, aspect oriented middleware and the services/products that are built on top of this will be discussed. A key part of the this talk will be a discussion of the various standards that JBoss intends to support.

The JMX-based microkernel architecture has been one of the key factors that contributed to the success of the JBoss application server. The purpose of this presentation is to educate about the usefulness of the JBoss microkernel as a generic to provide a birds-eye view of the microkernel architecture that has powered the 3.x and 4.x series plus a great deal of ISV products based on JBoss, with the purpose of identifying practical ways in which the microkernel can be re-used for you own applications.

JBoss Cache is a replicated, transactional cache with optional persistence storage. One particular aspect of JBoss Cache is the use of AOP (aspect oriented programming) to perform fine-grained field-level replication. This feature is particularly suited for http session replication when a user-specified object has complex object graph that needs replication constantly. Http session replication is critical to web application that requires high availbility and throughput. This session will present the implementation of the JBoss/Tomcat http session replication using JBoss Cache (with and without AOP) in the latest JBoss AS releases.

This session will demonstrate how EJB3 and AOP are driving the complexity out of middleware and defining a much simpler POJO (plain old Java object) programming model. Attendees will be walked through the use of EJB3 annotations, JDK 5.0 annotations, and the pre-built Aspects included in the JBoss Aspect Library. The audience will be shown how Aspects are built and how to extend the Java Language with AOP annotations.