Simon Zambrovski

Yesterday, the second Adam Bien event in Lehmanns Bookstore took place. Again, the event was a full success. I arrived half-an-hour earlier and got a seat only in the tenth row. Adam spoke about new features of EJB 3.1 and Glassfish. He showed examples running on a developer build of Glassfish V3, promising that the features will work without exceptions… Here are some topics, I remember:

• Singleton Beans: usefull a s a central point of the application, e.G. central cache etc…
• Async Methods: allows asynchronous execution of time-consuming methods. Especially, it is possible to abort the execution
• Deploying Beans in WARs: could be helpful for small applications
• Global JNDI-Namespace
• No interface view: simplifies the access to beans, if needed
• EJBCOntainer.getEJBContainer().getContext(): allows external initialization of bean context, which is nice for testing

Later, Adam discussed some Core J2EE patters, that become absolete with EJB 3.1 and others which are still valid. After the talk, I spoke with Adam about the OSGi as a module architecture inside JEE application, which seems interesting to me. The pictures are as usual available in my FlickR Gallery.

Yesterday, the second Eclipse Stammtisch Hamburg took place. It was nice to see the Hamburger community again. I had the opportunity to speak with Ralph about the activities in consortium and about the innovation netoworks, about German education system and other subjects. It was a very interesting discussion, even it was a non-technical one.  Later, we discussed the xText development with Peter.

As usually the rest of pictures can be found in my flickr gallery.

The vacation time of most people is over, so it is time to meet and discuss a little. A good opportunity to do this will be given on September 1st in Roxie, Hamburg during the Eclipse Stammtisch. The event name translates into regular’s table and indicates a regularity of the happening. Even if the upcoming event is only the second in series I expect to meet many people after the great feedback after the last one.

Details:

• When: Monday, September 1st, 19:00 CET
• Where: Roxie, Hamburg, Germany
• Directions: http://www.roxie-hamburg.com/roxieway.htm 
• Who’s comming: Doodle Poll

See you next Monday.

Since Prof. Dr. Vogt is going to retirement and leaves his position as head of the Institute of Telematics of Hamburg University of Technology a small farewell party has been organized. The most to prominent guests from the computer science community were Leslie Lamport and Manfred Broy. Leslie spoke about the benefits of usage of +CAL, a language for algorithm specification built on top of TLA+. Manfred spoke about requirements engineering and the utmost important of requirements for the quality of the software. The event has been finalized by a delicious buffet.

The pictures are available at http://www.ti5.tu-harburg.de/graphic/photos/symposium/

On Friday, I took part on the leave-taking of Prof. de Roever in Christian-Albrechts-Universität, in Kiel, Germany. Several prominent people from computer science research community spoke very kind words about de Roever, especially Amir Pnueli, who presented himself as a colleage and a competitor. Leslie Lamport also has been there, but I missed his talk that took place on Thursday. Further pictures are in my Flickr gallery…

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