| How to Avoid the Almost Certain End of Sun Microsystems |
| Robert X. Cringely | February 13th, 2003 |
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| Interesting and bleak commentary about the future of Sun Mircosystems. Mr Cringely basically states unless Sun drastically reinvents itself, it will be doomed in five years. Of course in the computer business a year is a dog year, which means five years could be 35 years. Also anything is possible as Mr Cringely points out so maybe just maybe Sun will surprise us all. |
| A JSTL primer: The expression language |
| Mark A. Kolb | February 2003 |
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| The JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) is a collection of custom tag libraries that implement general-purpose functionality common to Web applications, including iteration and conditionalization, data management formatting, manipulation of XML, and database access. In this first installment of his new series on developerWorks, software engineer Mark Kolb shows you how to use JSTL tags to avoid using scripting elements in your JSP pages. |
| Integrating JSP/JSF and XML/XSL |
| Erik Bruchez and Omar Tazi | February 2003 |
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| This article takes a brief look at JSP with JSF and JSTL. Then it adds the twist, of adding an XML/XSLT layer to process presentation level attributes. I don't fully agree with this approach, but it does have its applications. The authors are calling this hybrid approach Model 2X. The biggest problem of Model 2X is XSLT. While XSLT is a growing and ever improving translation language. It does represent an additional layer of work, and language processing skills. Only time will tell if this will be a common technique or one which is used for specialize Web applications. |
| Develop Java portlets |
| Carl Vieregger | February 2003 |
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| Fall asleep and a new term greets you when you wake. Isn't it a pain when you feel like a year has passed even after 8 hours of sleep. Portlet is a term bantered around now for a little while, but is only now beginning to make the rounds in the popular press (people must be getting tired of writing about Web services?). So what are Portlets? In a nutshell they are reusable and automated web front end to business application software. This article gives a ever confusing look into the world of Portlets. |
| The Case For Portlets |
| Ann Marie Fred Stan Lindesmith | February 2003 |
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| Another Portlet article. This article give a cleaner definition of a Portlet. |
| Java Servers Feel The Open-Source Heat |
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| Its easy to summerize this article. JBoss and Tomcat rock. :) nuff said! |
| BEA Systems Gets Squeezed From Both Ends |
| Bill Snyder | February 7th, 2003 |
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| Its easy to summarize this article. JBoss and Tomcat rock. :) nuff said! Wait I just said that for the last link. Ok this link has the variation of BEA could be facing some problems selling its J2EE server software in the current and future market place. The two major reasons listed are the marketing clout of IBM and the inexpensive alternative of JBoss. The real telling point of these articles is a simple one. The J2EE market place is maturing and the shake out process is in high gear. JBoss is a winner, the question becomes which commercial J2EE application servers will be the survivors? Even once dominate BEA isn't immune to this shake out process. |
| Why CORBA is Better Than SOAP |
| Jonathan Bartlett | February 6th, 2003 |
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| Nice quick list why CORBA rocks. I agree with John. However, in the end, and about 15 years from now SOAP will still be frustrating us while most likely CORBA will only be in a few legacy systems. (OK OK OK Don't flame me on that last statement) |
| Driving Web Services |
| SD Times | February 15th, 2003 |
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| A same old song and dance about Web services. In a nut shell, Web Services are primarily being used in Corporate situations as a means to reuse code and provide easy data distribution across projects. The articles predicts the standard 2-3 years Web services will be in wide spread use in the market place (Business applications). |
| Solaris Java was Slow, But Fine Now |
| Shankland | February 13th 2003 |
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| A month ago a memo was released which stirred quite a bit of debate in the Java Community. The internal memo from Sun stated how Java was slow on Solaris. This article clears up some of the mystery behind the memo. As a side note a link to some of the debate that raged in the release of the memo: |
| SlashDot |
| Code Conventions for the JavaServer Pages |
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| A proposed set of standard conventions for writing JSPs. |