Announcement

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This meeting is being co-sponsored by our sister JUG, the Silicon Valley JUG.

• Meeting: Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG (SV-WEB-JUG)
• Date: June 17, 2008
• Cost: Always FREE to all!
• Topic: Weblogic 10.3
• Speakers: Oracle / Bea Engineers

Meeting attendees are encouraged to view and augment the notes about this meeting on the JUGs Community Wiki here.

Description

This talk will cover some of the core areas in the WebLogic server and ongoing improvements in those areas. Specifically, the areas we intend to cover are Core/Clustering, JMS, WebServices, Diagnostics, Pub/Sub and FastSwap.

We will begin by explaining some of the recent improvements in Clustering such as Singleton Services, Auto Service Migration, MAN/WAN session replication. We will cover improvements in the JMS area around .NET client API, JMS Auto and Manual service migration, SAF, unit of order and unit of work message groups. We also plan on covering WebServices JAX-WS enhancements. We will also talk about the WebLogic diagnostic framework. The WebLogic Diagnostics Framework (WLDF) gives administrators and IT managers the ability to analyze their server operating environment using a set of components that generate information from WebLogic servers and the resources, including applications, deployed on the servers. The resulting data can then be gathered for analysis, and later persisted for long-term storage. In WLS 10.3 we are delivering a HTTP Pub/Sub Server which is a channels based publish/subscribe mechanism for web based clients to send and receive asynchronous messages over HTTP. The Pub/Sub Server is based on the Bayeux protocol proposed by the Comet project. It works with Dojo toolkit on the client side. With this HTTP pub/sub server, you can have multiple clients connect to a server, subscribe to channels and publish or listen for messages on these channels. Clients can concurrently share data with other clients on other servers for synchronous collaboration and allowing users to share experiences and work with other users. The current implementation leverages WLS JMS messaging architecture on the server side (e.g. distributed destination, JMS cluster, indexed subscribers etc.) for reliable communication. Finally we will talk about FastSwap feature introduced in WebLogic server to allow the developers to deploy any code changes in a single class or set of classes without the loss of server context. FastSwap is a "change-aware classloader" based technique used to upgrade a deployed application in production without needing to take BEA WebLogic Server offline. When a class changes, the system automatically loads the new class and the application state is maintained in the running application.

Agenda

18:30-19:00 Arrive & mingle -- Food & drinks provided by Google

19:00-20:30 Presentation by Oracle / Bea Engineers

Speaker Bios

Naresh Revanuru, WLS Product Architect
Naresh Revanuru has worked with BEA Systems for the past 6 years. He was the Technical Lead for the core and clustering areas before taking responsibility as the WebLogic Product Architect. In his current role he oversees WebLogic product architecture and provides technical guidance to various technical teams.

Prasanth Pallamreddy, Principal Engineer
Prash Pallamreddy is the technical lead for the web and the application container teams in Weblogic Server. He is on the expert group for Servlet and JSP specifications. He holds a MS and BS in computer science. His interests include distributed & high performance systems, web frameworks and rich internet applications

Alan Mullendore, Consulting Engineer
Alan Mullendore is a Consulting Member of the Technical Staff and Development Lead in the WLS Web Services Engineering team. He's worked on many aspects of web services, distributed computing, and databases during previous stints at ActiveGrid, Sun Microsystems, Forte Software, and Ingres.

Location

Google, Inc. (GooglePlex Map)
Tunis Conference Room, (Bldg. 43)
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

Please enter from the north side of the building, in the middle of the Google campus. Also, parking will be much easier to find in the lots south of Bldg. 44 across the street from the main complex.

Sponsors

Google for conference room and snacks.