Citjava press release

Sterling Software and CityJava Bring Together Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) Technologists To Discuss EJB Use at the Enterprise Level

** MEDIA ALERT**

WHO: Sterling Software, Inc.’s (SSW-NYSE) Application Development Group is sponsoring a panel discussion among technologists from IBM, Sun Microsystems, Bluestone Software, Inc. and GlueBeans at San Francisco’s leading Java User Group, CityJava.

WHAT: The discussion topic will be "In order to deliver enterprise-scale eBusiness systems using Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) technology, development organizations will need to employ an architecture-led approach which focuses on components and interface-centric design".

WHEN: Thursday, December 2, 1999, 3:30 p.m.

WHERE: CityJava’s Bizparty, Club-I, 850 Folsom Street, San Francisco

“We are looking forward to a lively discussion with fellow technologists from the vendor community and members of the CityJava User Group,” said Mike Jones, product line director at Sterling Software. “Feedback from our customers indicates that the use of EJBs to deliver enterprise-scale applications will become mainstream in the next six months and we believe it is important to encourage practical discussion among the Standard setters, platform and tool vendors, and the developers themselves.”

The EJB starship has already blasted off into orbit around the e-commerce world. Sterling is assisting with navigation from the bridge of this ship and reaching out to the premier technically-savvy audience in the San Francisco Bay Area,” said John Rommel, founder, BayStart/CityJava. “I applaud Sterling Software for choosing BayStart/CityJava to introduce their COOL: Joe Java technologies.”