Speaker

Erik Dörnenburg
ThoughtWorks

Erik Dörnenburg (33) is a senior developer and technical architect at ThoughtWorks, Inc., a provider of application development and integration services to the Global 1000, where he is helping clients with the design and implementation of large-scale enterprise solutions. Leveraging his experience with J2EE and other environments, Erik is currently exploring Microsoft's .NET platform, focusing on service-oriented architectures. Before joining ThoughtWorks, Erik was Technical Director at Pixelpark UK, a new media company, where he integrated enterprise systems with web- based solutions and a variety of digital delivery channels. His career in enterprise software began in the early nineties on the NEXTstep platform and Erik has been an advocate of agile, test-driven, object-oriented development and OpenSource software for many years. He holds a degree in Informatics from the University of Dortmund and has studied Computer Science and Linguistics at the University College Dublin.

Presentation: "Persistence Neutrality using the EOB application service framework"

Wednesday 13:00 - 13:45, Private Room

Working with J2EE for almost five years, developers of enterprise software have gained much experience with this platform. Common enterprise design patterns have emerged and strength as much as weaknesses of the EJB model have been discovered. Despite the successful introduction of container managed persistence we believe to have spotted a trend towards reduced EJB container usage and the appearance of several new persistence frameworks.

Enterprise Object Broker (EOB) is an application service framework that imposes no restriction on the persistence framework used. Common choices include Prevayler and Hibernate. It is an open framework to leverage existing designs and provides transparent RPC for easy client-side usage.

This presentation will summarise our experiences with J2EE, outline a way forward and introduce EOB using small examples.

Persistence Neutrality using the EOB application service framework - (slides)

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