Annick Fron, consultant AFC Europe

Annick Fron graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris. She worked for 8 years for the electronics industry (Philips, Thomson, Thales...) before founding AFC Europe in 1993.

She acts as a free-lance consultant in software architecture since then, with customers both in the IS sector (banks such as Société Générale, Banque Générale du Luxembourg, Crédit Agricole) and in the Telecom and industry sector (Ascom, Schneider Electric, Alstom...). She coordinates a Java user Group in Sophia-Antipolis, and teaches this year Distributed Java systems in University of Nice (Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Informatiques).

Track:   Tutorial

Abstract:

Attendees : attendees should have a good knowledge of java and are expected to write some code on their laptops with the material provided on the CD.

Requirements : Window or Linux, J2SDK 1.4, ant Optionnally : a database supporting transcactions such as MySQL version 4 (not 3), postgres, cloudscape

This tutorial will focus on what really makes application servers so useful and avoid EJB wizards that hide the fundamental concepts : pool of ressources and threads, JNDI, transactions, security (JAAS, JSSE); class loaders for jsps The talk will be illustrated by several exercises which will be proposed to the attendees :

" Authentification with JAAS : how can different identification modules coexist and how the java security framework has evolved

" Pools of threads : how the tasks can be shared among workers to ensuure scalability of large applications XA architecture : the importance of the EJB context to handle transactions in an automatic or programmatic fashion  a 2 phase commit between different databases or between a database and a messaging server (in this case Joram and Jotm will be used to emulate what happens in a real application server)