One of the things that kept me and my team busy over the past couple of years
was starting to support J2EE 1.4 in OptimalJ - a goal that we accomplished
with the release of OptimalJ 4.2. Now that this job is complete, it's
interesting to look back and ponder the experience and learn from it.
As OptimalJ is a vendor-neutral modeling tool that generates J2EE
applications, we tend to avoid application server-specific features that are
not mandated by J2EE. Typically our first take is to implement our
code-generation modules by the letter of the spec and then ensure we fill in
the necessary bits for a particular vendor by generating additional
vendor-specific deployment descriptors. This task, quite feasible at first
sight, proved rather intricate with J2EE 1.4. Why? One reason is incomplete
implementations of certain parts of the spec. However, there were more causes
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In my earlier article "Moving to SOA in J2EE 1.4" published in the February
issue of JDJ I introduced you to the new object distribution model based on
Web Services that became available to Enterprise Java applications with the
advent of Java EE 1.4. In this article I want to look at the security
features available in Java EE SOA.
Here you'll get thehands-on knowledge of Web Services security in Java EE
that we acquired when adding security support to OptimalJ-generated SOA
applications. It's based on the J2EE 1.4 specification itself as well as on
what is actually supported and... (more)
This past year the J2EE 1.4 specification enjoyed increased adoption by the
industry, with most major application server vendors having released their
J2EE 1.4 products and more and more enterprises upgrading their application
servers and production applications to comply with it.
Apart from merely upgrading, there's a natural desire to leverage the primary
focus of J2EE 1.4 - its support for service oriented architectures and Web
services - and make it benefit the business by exposing the business logic of
J2EE applications in a way that makes them portably accessible from the
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Andrei Iltchenko is a development lead at Compuware Corporation where he works on the MDA product OptimalJ and is responsible for the business logic area of OptimalJ-generated J2EE applications. He is also a Sun certified Java developer for Java Web Services, a Sun Certified Business Component Developer, a Sun Certified Developer, and a Sun Certified Programmer.
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