| Craig McClanahan Announces Struts and JSF Integration Position |
| ServerSide | September 19, 2002 |
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| A link to a discussion on Struts and JSF. Worth reading, if you are a server side developer. Craig's email is worth reading as it does give a good look ahead on what is going on with JSF and Struts. However, the follow up commentary is awesome, from so many angles. |
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| Changing the Zen of Programming |
| Jim Waldo | August 26, 2002 |
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| A good piece of thinking about how we build our programs. The point of the piece is more programmers over time will be dealing with dynamic programming. That is programs which will have to deal with changing objects rather than changing logic in mid stream. Its a change that has been slowly occurring for years and one that is still years in the making. However, it is a point worth taking in as the programming environments evolve. |
| Father of Java Has His Eye on 'Jackpot' |
| Darryl K. Taft | September 20, 2002 |
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| This is an interview with James Gosling. Semi Interesting but very high level questions. |
| What's Next for HTML? |
| Micah Dubinko | September 04, 2002 |
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| A quick look at XHTML 2.0 and a overview on where it stands within out web browser marketplace. |
| What Are XForms? |
| Micah Dubinko | September 11, 2002 |
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| The XForms working draft was finally released in late August! This article is an introduction and review of XForms based on the recent release. |
| Lead Windows Developer Bugged By Security |
| Matt Berger | September 5, 2002 |
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| Security sucks in this day and age, but its nice to read about when a lead Microsoft developer is willing to admit to the problem. |
| Web Service EULAs |
| Ed Foster | August 26, 2002 |
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| Hmm have you been closely reading your EULA's of late? If not, you may want to check this out to see some of the things Microsoft and others have been slipping into their EULA statements. In a nutshell Microsoft is adding a benchmark nondisclosure clause preventing the publishing of benchmarks of web service based components. The article is more of an opinion on the impact of such a statement in the EULA. |
| JSTL 1.0: What JSP Applications Need, Part 2 |
| Hans Bergsten | September 11, 2002 |
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| Part #2 of an article series on the JSTL is now available over at OnJava.com. The series provides an overview of the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) and how it helps a JSP developer. Well worth a read if you have yet to use the JSTL. |
| XML Canonicalization |
| Bilal Siddiqui | September 18, 2002 |
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| This is a first of a two part (introductory) article which reviews XML canonicalization. The first article reviews the process of XML canonicalization, that is, of finding the simplified form of an XML document. The article reviews why someone would need to canonicalize an XML document. |
| Identity Crisis |
| Kendall Grant Clark | September 11, 2002 |
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| What is identity on the web? And while we are at it who are we really? Kendall looks at the issue of how do we identify a resource and the problems W3C is having in defining Identity. |
| Introducing Axis |
| Laurent Denanot | August 2002 |
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| This requires a free account to be created in order to be read. This is a link to a introductory article and a PDF document describing Apache Axis Web Service server. Its a decent overview on the Apache Axis project. This includes some simple examples on how to use Apache Axis. |
| Designing Distributed Systems: A Conversation with Ken Arnold, Part III |
| Bill Venners | September 2002 |
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| In this third installment of Bill Venners' interview with Ken Arnold, the discussion centers around designing distributed systems, including the importance of designing for failure, avoiding the "hell" of state, and choosing recovery strategies. |