Sun’s Java 1.4 has quietly gone end-of-life since 30 October; see Sun’s Java SE 1.4.2 page:

J2SE 1.4.2 is in its Java Technology End of Life (EOL) transition period. The EOL transition period began Dec, 11 2006 and will complete October 30th, 2008, when J2SE 1.4.2 will have reached its End of Service Life (EOSL).

This doesn’t mean that Sun doesn’t support Java 1.4 anymore - with Sun’s Java SE for Business you can get up to 15 years of support for older Java versions.

However, if you’re on a project that still uses Java 1.4 you should really upgrade to Java 6, if you have any say into which Java version is being used. Besides the new features added in Java 5 and 6, you’ll enjoy the performance enhancements and bug fixes.

If you’re a Java programmer and you still didn’t learn the new Java 5 features… then you’re in trouble.

The SCJP exam for Java 1.4 has been discontinued this month.

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Last thursday I visited a presentation about Process Acceleration (PA) [1]. PA is a Business Change method that also uses separation of concerns: it separates the end result from anything else in the business process. The end result of the process is the success state, i.e. all employees correctly submitted their billing forms and all team managers got a correct summary by mail. The emphasis lies primarely on getting the definition of the end result as accurate as possible.

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According to Google Trends SOA is not as “hot” as it was a year ago. According to a recent poll by Finalist [0] at the J-Fall [1] SOA is actually very “not”. Does this mean that companies are already preparing or even using SOA? Or are they abandoning SOA?

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Tomorrow is the start of a new ‘Pro4Pro season’. Pro4Pro sessions are given by some of the best professionals of Logica. “Extreem RAD : Live Web Applicatie Ontwikkeling met Oracle Application Express” “Standardizing SOA with Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture” “Practical Approach to SOA Adoption”

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Guru4Pro Thomas Erl - - ‘How to overcome the key challenges within SOA’.
Date: 20 oktober 2008

On Monday the 20th of October Logica has invited Thomas Erl to speak on the Principles of Service Design and Patterns to transform the most important challenges into a successful realization of a Service Oriented Architecture. Business analyst, functional designers and architects will gain new valuable insights on the modeling of services and supporting architecture.

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In the afternoon of November 3 Oracle guru Tom Kyte will talk about “11 Things about 11g” at the Logica office in Amstelveen (near Amsterdam). I have attended this presentation at ODTUG this year and I assure you it’s worthwhile! After his presentation Tom will also do an AskTom Live session. So a great opportunity to enhance your knowledge with everything you wanted to know about Oracle but you never dared to ask…
There is more info on the Logica site (in Dutch, but Tom will do his presentation in English ofcourse). You can also register (”aanmeldingsformulier”) there.

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This was my last day at JAOO. I was tired, but still looking forward to today’s speakers. It was hard to decide what to attend and what not to attend today. I just had to hope that I’ve chosen correctly.

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I skipped the introduction of today’s program in order to write up my impression of yesterday instead. The long introduction is boring anyway. I already knew which sessions I wished to attend.

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JAOO: An international software development conference with more than 80 speakers, 3 days of presentations, 3 days of tutorials and about 1400 guests. And all of it right here in Aarhus, Denmark, right on top of where I live and work. I was lucky enough to attend last year, and I’ll be attending this year too…
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If you would like to be an Oracle Certified Profressional on a developer level, OCA + Forms was always the only way to go. Until now! Oracle is currently running a beta exam on OCP that includes not Oracle Forms, but goes in deeper to PL/SQL. The official title: Oracle Advanced PL/SQL Developer Certified Professional. The exam (IZ0-146) contains the following subjects:

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