Now Really Learning EJB

For the past three years of working here at ASTI-DOST I and my team mates have been building various web applications, most of which are information systems. Our first main project wasn't that really big so we opted to implement it using just POJOS, Servlets, and JSPs with three layer MVC as framework. Same with the following projects, they weren't really that complicated to require the use of EJBs. Until January this year, we started on a totally massive project that encompasses a lot of agencies and councils under the department of science, both with existing information systems and those who don't have yet. The whole system will be covering a lot of components that it will require a really sturdy and robust web application framework to make it last for a lot of years, easily maintanable and expandable in the future. Now I could see that at last I will be able put into practice my EJB knowledge into a real world problem, a really big problem I should say. Still, there are other application frameworks that comes into the scene that could match up to EJB. . .like Spring. In fact, I have already studied and practiced Spring into a mini project of mine before even trying out EJB. But the fact that I have already used Spring and saw its promises against EJB gives me the joy of studying EJB 1.4 and see what Spring is talking about. Now that I could see the flaws of EJB 1.4 in contrast to Spring, I could understand more why Spring did this and did that in response to EJB's shortcomings. On my study plan, after learning EJB 1.4 and putting it into practice (oh what a tedious task. . .), I will dive into EJB 3.0 to see what was EJB's response to Spring. I am pretty sure both will really battle well and I am more than excited to learn both.

Ever learning,
Jep

The Irony of Being a Iskolar ng Bayan

As I posted last week, I was supposed to go to Thailand for a coordination meeting with other ASEAN countries regarding distance learning or e-Learning. Last friday I was at the Department of Foreign Affairs to fix my passport. To my shock and dismay (not really dismay...), DFA won't issue me a passport unless I get a clearance from DOST that they are allowing me to travel outside the Philippines for four glorious days. That sounds just fine but the catch is DOST won't issue me a clearance to travel unless an authority issues a guarantors letter noting that I am going to come back here in the Philippines after four days. The problem is that there is no one, an authority, that would guarantee that for DOST. Hehe, what an irony, I am a scholar of the Philippines and its government and yet I can't travel for a scholarly meeting outside my country. Well, it doesn't really bother me that much since I know God must have a reason why it'd happen. Hehe, can't wait for the lifting of my ban to travel outside the borders of my beloved country, just one more year. :]

Continually learning,
Jep

Possible New Pet Project :]

Hehehe! Just this morning I had a meeting with my boss and some of my co-team-leaders. They presented to me a proposal about a possible project of one of the government's departments. I got excited about it because the completion of this project will bring a big impact to many sectors of the society, specially for the tourism industry. Now, it's up to me to decide if we would accommodate the project given the work loads I am carrying right now. Whew! I could say that it is pretty tough to decide now since I would really love to see the project go into completion for the benefit of my fellow Filipinos and the other nationalities as well. Well, I still got a few hours to think about it. :]

Continually learning,
Jep

Passport Craze

Just yesterday my boss emailed me regarding a coordination meeting regarding e-Learning to be held at a not so distant country from hours. Yep, I got excited about it until I got to realize that I don't have a passport yet, nyahaha. Panic filled my mind. Blood rushed to my head. I now only have almost 4 days to have a passport and I don't really know what is going to happen. waaah! Still I'm hoping to get one. If ever, this will be my first travel outside the Philippines. yay! :]

Learning Java Mobile Edition

This afternoon one of my college batch mates asked me if I want to learn Java Mobile Edition and I immediately said yes. For the past three years of working I have been much involved with web application development, like information systems. Now I am working on a considerably big scale information system with three years allotted for development and implementation. So I have so little idea on what I'll be learning about JME. I am excited about it and now thinking on how we will start our online class. We still have no curriculum and reading materials for the class and we are looking for people who want to join us. For those want to join the group, please send me your email so I could send you an invitation. We hope to have more people on the group before we start the class.


Continually learning,
Jep