| JSTL 1.0: Standardizing JSP, Part 1 |
| Hans Bergsten | August 14th, 2002 |
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| This is a review of the JSTL Tag libraries being released to the benefit of all JSP programmers. |
| Interview with Stefano Mazzocchi |
| Stefano Mazzocchi | August 2002 |
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| An interview with the creator of the Cocoon Framework. It is interesting to read if you want to get some flavor of Cocoon. |
| 10 Reasons We Need Java 3.0 |
| Elliotte Rusty Harold | July 31st, 2002 |
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| Very good article about how to improve Java for the next major Java version. |
| JSR 109: Web Services Inside of J2EE Apps |
| Al Saganich | August 7th, 2002 |
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| An overview of how to JSR 109 attempts to make web service access easier and occur in a standard way in J2EE implementations. |
| XML Processing Measurements using XPB4J |
| Pankaj Kumar | May 30th, 2002 |
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| Interesting examination of the various XML parsers and performance results. The test checks examines the different parsers, different JVM's CPU speed, file size and other factors. Even better: the code is available to be downloaded so you can perform the tests for yourself. |
| Where Scott McNealy's Wrong About the Economics of Open Source |
| Nicholas Petreley | August 7th, 2002 |
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| Interesting commentary about Sun, Scott McNealy and Open Source. Worth reading if you are into the open source at all. |
| Using the Mozilla SOAP API |
| Apple/Mozilla | August 2002 |
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| The Apple developer connection has an article which introduces the Mozilla SOAP API and uses it to do queries on Google's search engine. This is interesting and opens up the possibility of popular web browsers to be used as SOAP clients instead of putting this functionality on the server-side. Replacing a round trip and a SOAP call to your server in favor of a few lines of JavaScript is appealing. Check out the article and check out Mozilla. |
| Hard Core Tech Talk with Marc Fleury |
| TheServerSide | August 15th, 2002 |
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| This link will take you both to the commentary and the link to the interview. Marc Fleury currently serves as the President of the JBoss Group. In this interview, Marc talks about the current state of JBoss and the open source landscape. He looks at JBoss' microkernel design, client interceptors, fault tolerance in JBoss after 9/11, and the reasons for open source J2EE licensing. He describes the open source way of life, how JBoss functions as a business, and gives his take on .NET. |
| Java and MS Office |
| JavaLobby | August 12th, 2002 |
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| A question we get every once in a while is how to interface Java with one of the MS Office products. This link will take you to two examples of this. One a link to an older article interfacing Excel and Java, and the other a link to the Jakarta POI project found here: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/. If for nothing else reading the POI page is worth a few laughs and I should have listed this as a Humor link in reality. |
| Simplify Web development with Tea |
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| I find it interesting that Tea is still around. Tea is simple Java template language for building dynamic Web sites. This is a introductory article on Tea and how to use it in practice. Personally I haven't used Tea so you will have to judge yourself on if it is a good solution for your project. |