JRun 4 & Macromedia MX Tommy Reilly JRun Engineer

2Overview JRun 4 Features Macromedia MX ›Flash MX ›Cold Fusion MX ›Dreamweaver MX J2EE 1.4 Q&A

3 JRun 4 Highlights – FAR Out! J2EE 1.3 Certified Fast - 5X Tomcat Affordable - $899 per CPU Reliable – Clustering everywhere

4 Development / Deployment Open directory WARs/EARs/EJB jars Hot deployment, copy to server directory Modification detection ›Update war/ear/jar dynamically ›Touch DD and app is redeployed XDoclet integration ›Editting DD’s by hand is for the birds Dynamic auto compiling ClassLoader Fast deployment, no EJB stub generation

5Clustering JINI based clustering ›Used to automatically detect cluster changes Multicast for easy setup ›Unicast supported for tight control/cross subnet Web Connector Clustering ›Behind web server, < %5 overhead as servers added ›Sticky sessions ›Pluggable load indicator Peer to Peer session replication

6SDK Kit for building JRun into your own app Source code: ›Launchers ›Connectors ›JRun Management Console Javadocs to all of JRun

7Security SSL over connectors SSL Web Server (for development) XML based JAAS login module NT Domain JAAS login module

8 Misc. features XMLMetaData Type 4 JDBC drivers (Oracle, SQLServer, DB2, Sybase) Advanced JDBC pooling, based on PoolMan Enterprise Deployment Wizard JMX based service architecture ›Services available remotely via JNDI (like EJBs) Standalone web server configuration tool JSTs

9 Macromedia MX Rich clients are back Web Browsers great for information access HTML Form based web applications stink! Chatty on the network, high comm overhead Back/forward/submit reload is a pain!

10 Flash to the rescue! Tightly controlled user experience ›Deliver entire app in one page Control over network usage ›Don’t go back to the server until you need to ›Batch operations Tight binary protocol tunneled over HTTP Flash remoting ~= super simple lightweight RMI %98 of desktops have Flash

11 Flash MX Streaming video support Authoring tool has built in UI components Player around ~300K

12 ColdFusion MX What JSP wants to be Now implemented in Java on J2EE Soon to be available J2EE versions for: ›JRun ›WebSphere ›WebLogic ›iPlanet New feature, CFCs make web services a snap Use JSP Tag libraries

13 Dreamweaver MX UltraDev/ColdFusion Studio/Dreamweaver combined XHTML support XML authoring XML Schema creation ASP/JSP/CF/PHP Support

14 J2EE 1.4 Web Services stuff mostly JSP 1.3 ›Built in scripting language, no more Java in pages ›Write tags in tags ›Simplified tag invocation handler API

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