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JSP Buzz: Vol. II Issue #19

JSP Buzz - October 9th, 2001 - Misc Tidbits

10/9/2001

Table of Contents
  1. Microsoft Plans Java Counterpunch for .NET
  2. Bad Week for Sun
  3. Microsoft Adds Java Support to Database
  1. More on Web Services
  1. Succeeding as a Developer In Todays Economy
  2. Memoirs of eXtreme DragonSlayers, part 8
  3. Where are Web Services Today?
  4. Web Services: It's So Crazy, It Just Might Not Work
  5. XMethods
  6. Using J2EE Services from JSP
  7. A Cautionary Tale for a New Age of Surveillance
  8. XML in Java : Document Models, Part 1: Performance
  9. Using JDBC to Extract Data Into XML
  1. Tomcat 4.0 Maintenance Release #1
  2. Ant Beta 1 Released
  3. eXtend Workbench 1.0
  4. Free Dev License and Download of EAServer
  5. Communique JSP Debugger
  6. Database Tag Library
News
Microsoft Plans Java Counterpunch for .NET
The Register   October 7th, 2001  
Rumors of Java.Net (J#) from the land of Microsoft
Bad Week for Sun
CNet   October 5th, 2001  
Sun has announced it will be resizing the company and will let go about 9% (4,000) of its workforce. It is sad as this is partially due to ripple effects due to the terrorist attacks of last month. This news item is all the more interesting when read in conjunction with this earlier article about Sun's current position after the terrorist attacks.
NyTimes
Microsoft Adds Java Support to Database
CNET   September 25th 2001  
... No Really... and it's not April fools day either. After spending years telling customers, "No Microsoft doesn't make a JDBC driver", it seems kind of odd now that they do have one. Well they actually bought out the Merant JDBC driver, but they will be optimizing it and repackaging it for release sometime in 2002.
Rambles
More on Web Services
Casey Kochmer  
In continuing to play with web services, I am amazed at the simplicity of building a web service. With little experience and existing tools any programmer can implement a web service. The problems with web services isn't in building a web service but with everything else surrounding web services. The problems I see are:
-The overall market place is in confusion with general economic conditions.
-The overall infrastructure for implementing commercial grade services is still very poor and young.
-Too much hype and too many tools. In fact I expect over the upcoming months new tools will be popping up faster than fleas on my cat.
-Building a web service is easy, wading through all the hype and standards is just a pain. (I actually would suggest a more colorful metaphor).
I am going to stay with my original expectations of web services. Despite the ease of implementation, its going to take a year before we see many practical implementations. I also feel that creating commercial web service should not be the way to start with web services. Instead initially they should be exploited as a method to centralize processing logic for an organization. In some ways they are a poor mans EJB. Over time I think commercial web services will be a reality, but not right now.
The Register
In the mean time as web services slowly get more practical, the feeding
Links
Succeeding as a Developer In Todays Economy
The ServerSide   September 25th, 2001  
A discussion and article about the current marketplace and the skills required to survive in the current and future chaos. Well worth the time to read if you are nervous about your job situation.
Memoirs of eXtreme DragonSlayers, part 8
Dan Hattenberger   October 2001  
This particular DragonSlayer article is taking a look at the best methods of storing and reusing data which is accessed repeatedly by the customer. The DragonSlayers is a long running set of article from IBM exploring building a sample JSP application. While the article-series has too much of a IBM toolset bent for my likes, some of the articles have been quite interesting.
The complete index of the DragonSlayer articles.
Where are Web Services Today?
Mark Waterhouse   October 3rd, 2001  
A relatively positive article on web services. It reviews some strengths and weaknesses to web services.
Web Services: It's So Crazy, It Just Might Not Work
Clay Shirky   October 3rd, 2001  
And counterpoint. This is a review on why web services won't work as all the hype portrays.
XMethods
A decent site with a listing of web services to access and some basic web service information.
Using J2EE Services from JSP
Qusay H. Mahmoud   October 2001  
A quick and high level review on how JSP and J2EE can live together.
A Cautionary Tale for a New Age of Surveillance
NY Times   October 7th, 2001  
OK this isn't a technical article. However, the story is shocking as the effects of terrorism within the United Kingdom has prompted the installation of a few million surveillance camera's around the country. The article is a very serious look at a possible future for the United States. This article requires a free registration to read.
XML in Java : Document Models, Part 1: Performance
Dennis M. Sosnoski   September 2001  
A must read article for anyone playing around with Java and XML. It's both a review of current XML parsers and comparison on performance results. Great article.
Using JDBC to Extract Data Into XML
Nicholas Chase     
The tutorial assumes that you are already familiar with Java and XML in general, and the Document Object Model (DOM) in particular. You should be familiar with Java programming, but prior Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) knowledge is not required to master the techniques described in this tutorial. The tutorial briefly covers the basics of SQL. This tutorial requires a free online registration.
Products
Tomcat 4.0 Maintenance Release #1
Jakarta   October 7th, 2001  
Tomcat 4.0 maintenance release #1 is now available. Tomcat 4.0 has been a great JSP container and a great improvement over the 3.x version of Tomcat.
Ant Beta 1 Released
Jakarta   October 1st, 2001  
Various Bug fixes for Ant 1.4 are in this release.
eXtend Workbench 1.0
SilverStream   October 2001  
SilverStream eXtend Workbench 1.0 is an IDE that simplifies and accelerates the creation, assembly, consumption and deployment of J2EE and Web Service applications.
Free Dev License and Download of EAServer
SyBase   October 3rd 2001  
Sybase is permitting developers free use of its J2EE development tools. Of course you still have to pay to deploy, but at least you can try before you buy.
Communique JSP Debugger
Day   October 2001  
Day's Communique (cqjd) is a freeware JSP Debugger application. The product is designed to run on a local desktop allowing a user the ability to remotely debug any Java Virtual Machine. Built to the latest reference implementation of Tomcat and based on the Java Platform Debug Architecture (JPDA), cqjd enables remote server debugging on Tomcat versions 3.x and 4.0.
Database Tag Library
Appenture Group     
An GPL open source Tag library for providing database access.

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