53 A Practical Guide to Java on the Server

David Bailey, Hazim Kateeb, and Amy Weber, Advanced Computing Technical Services, Inc.

Convention Centre
Rooms 2 & 3

Java has primarily been used as a client development language because of its potential portability. A greater opportunity for the language, however, appears to exist in creating servers. While performance has kept many organizations from attempting to use Java to develop servers, recent advances in tools and compiler technology have opened the door to developing complex, information-intensive, and large-scale Java-based servers. This tutorial explores the practical use of Java on the server. It includes a brief overview of Java concepts, then describes typical architectures for Java-based servers. Optimization techniques, tips and traps, and development tools are discussed. A case study is used to solidify concepts and demonstrate the benefits of applying Java to servers.

Attendee Background: Attendees should have a working knowledge of OO concepts, software architecture, and Java.

David Bailey is President of ACTS, Inc., where he specializes in developing complex, large-scale, mission-critical applications for businesses. He has architected systems for diverse industries, such as telecommunications, transportation, distribution, and publishing. Mr. Bailey has taught advanced computing topics for several conferences and businesses in both the United States and Europe.

Hazim Kateeb is a developer for ACTS, Inc. Mr. Kateeb has developed several mission critical OO applications for the transportation and publishing industries. He is currently applying JAVA technology to web-based, distributed applications.

Amy Weber is Senior Designer/Developer at ACTS, Inc. Ms. Weber has several years of experience designing and developing large-scale object-oriented and component-based systems for the distribution, transportation, and publishing industries.

All of the speakers lecture at the Central Ohio Java Users' Group.

Other tutorials in the Java thread are:

for beginners (yellow):
Tutorial 15, 15T: Introduction to Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming in Java Tutorial 25: From C++ to Advanced Java in 1/2 day Tutorial 40: Java from UML

for intermediates (option 1- green):
Tutorial 15, 15T: Introduction to Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming in Java Tutorial 26: Distributed Java Applications Tutorial 39: Designing Concurrent Object-Oriented Programs in Java Tutorial 52, 52T: Java Beans: Specifications, Design and Test

for intermediates (option 2- grey):
Tutorial 16: An Introduction to the Java Foundation Classes (JFC) Tutorial 26: Distributed Java Applications Tutorial 40: Java from UML Tutorial 52, 52T: Java Beans: Specifications, Design and Test

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