*Enterprise Class MVC with ColdFusion and Java is one of the sessions at the cf.Objective() 2008 Conference.

We hear a lot of talk about using individual Java objects within ColdFusion but the reality of enterprise development is that entire subsystems tend to built entirely in Java.

Software teams that serve the enterprise often build large, complex systems using Spring and Hibernate. How do you go about using ColdFusion with such systems?

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The annual event JAX India 2008 will be held in Bangalore, from 8-11th April, 2008.JAX India 2007 featured some of the big names like Craig McClanahan of Sun Microsystems, Neal Ford (a senior application architect at ThoughtWorks), Malcolm Groves of CodeGear and many more, covering topics from JAVA enterprise to Open Source, Software testing and much more.

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I had a great conversation with Rod Johnson, CEO of SpringSource last week. As readers of TSS will know, news of SpringSource acquiring Covalent caused much buzz amongst notary middleware personalities.

Rod explained that acquiring Covalent provides SpringSource with contributors on several Apache projects including Apache Tomcat. Why is Tomcat important? Well, more than a third of Spring users run SpringSource products on Tomcat. Tomcat use is also relatively high for paying customers of SpringSource support. The Covalent deal helps SpringSource offer customers a joint Tomcat and Spring support offering from one vendor. Rod states:
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Call it a unit of knowledge, but beware of calling it a ‘knol’, as Google has applied to trademark the term.

If approved, knol will join several other trademarked terms owned by Google. Along with the company’s name, Google sought a few other trademarks this year.

Resource Shelf listed ‘knol’ and some other words to the trademark queue. These represent the search ad company’s recent, publicly discussed initiatives, like the world of mobile phone software.

Google’s trademark applications related to mobile include Android, Dalvik, and Open Handset Alliance. Android is the mobile application platform, while the Open Handset Alliance consists of those companies that have agreed to be part of Google’s plans.

Dalvik presents a more interesting concept than just a virtual machine to execute files on Android. Apache developer Stefano Mazzocchi said in November 2007 that Dalvik offered Google a break from Sun’s Java licensing schemes:

The trick is that Google doesn’t claim that Android is a Java platform, although it can run some programs written with the Java language and against some derived version of the Java class library. Not only this allows Google to avoid having to battle thru the JCP for any change to the Java ME “standard” or tolerate Sun’s unique ability to veto any JCP change, but gives users a much more ‘fresh‘ and modern class library to play with…

Google makes Android and not only unlocks development abilities on the mobile phone but also unlocks millions of potential Java mobile programmers from Sun’s grip on it.

As a custom virtual machine, Dalvik does not interfere with the usual Java development for creating class and jar files. Dalvik runs these programs, as noted.

Where Dalvik should shine is with its minimal CPU requirement. Google needed a low-power consumption benefit for Android, in order to attract developers and hardware manufacturers to the platform.

When someone creates a knol about Dalvik, we’ll look for two things. One: if someone from Google writes it. Two: if AdSense displays Sun or Java related ads in the knol (if ads are enabled for it, of course.)

Some people have been noticing dramatically slower application startup times on ColdFusion 8 compared to ColdFusion MX 7.

I’ve seen a lot of complaints about shared hosting systems where applications timeout.

Since CF8 is so much faster than CFMX7, you might wonder why application startup times can be so much worse.

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