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This is a list of JavaZone 2010 sessions I am planning to attend. Selecting this list was really hard as all of the presentations are exceptionally good.

OpenESB project initiated by Sun Microsystems to develop and deliver a high performance, and feature rich implementation of Java Business Integration (JBI) under an open source friendly license. Basic task of JBI implementations is connecting different type of resources and applications together in a standard and none intrusive way. Basic building blocks of an ESB [...]

Spring framework is one of the biggest and the most comprehensive frameworks Java Community can utilize to cover most of the  end to end requirement of a software system when it come to implementation. Spring Security and Spring Remoting are two important parts of the framework which covers security in a descriptive way and let [...]

Modularity is the essential design and implementation consideration which every software architects and designers should have in mind to get an easy to develop, maintain and extend software. GlassFish is an application server which highly benefits from a modularity system to provide different level of functionalities for different deployment and case studies. GlassFish fully supports [...]

Talking about messaging imply two basic functionalities which all other provided features are built around them; these two capabilities include support for topics and queues which basically lets a message to be consumed by as many interested consumer  as subscribed or at just one of the interested consumer(s). Messaging middleware was present in the industry [...]

When we start working on a new project as an architect we are dealing basically with a set of requirement which our architecture should be able to act as a foundation for the design and implementation of those requirements in form of a software system. to let the customer fulfill its requirements in a better [...]

I was involved with development of a RCP application based on NetBeans platform and now I find few minutes to share some of the experience with you. All standard coding and best practices are applicable here. Use project management systems like Trac or any project management system that you know. Never start a project without [...]

You may have already faced situation when you need to have messaging capabilities in your application while your client application runs in an environment which you have no control over its network configuration and restrictions. Such situation lead to the fact that you can not use JMS communication over designated ports like 7676 and so. [...]

If you do not know what OpenDS is, then you can simply learn about it by looking at its website located at http://www.opends.org But a brief description is: OpenDS is a high performance, feature rich and pure Java based, directory server which is under active development by Sun Microsystems. Today I grabbed OpenDS 1.3 build [...]

JBoss application server 5 GA released after a very long period of silence from "JBoss, a division of Red Hat". The new version of JBoss application server supports Java EE 5 and is based on modularity concept with a small kernel named JBoss MicroContainer in the core and all functionalities as modules around the kernel. [...]