November 2003

Struts Book Roundup

November 24, 2003

I just finished teaching a 6-week tutorial on Struts. As part of the prep for this class, I went through all of the Struts books I owned (Current Count: 5) and tried to figure out which book I was going to recommend as a tutorial that they could use for this class. I was able [...]

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Love my new Wireless Linky

November 21, 2003

I just upgraded to the Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G router last month and I am very happy with the quality of the product. This router acts as a wireless access point, 100 MB switch and a router making it a nice multipurpose device.For the wireless connectivity, this router supports that latest 802.11g standard which offers 54Mbps [...]

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Sun, IBM, Eclipse and Microsoft

November 14, 2003

Just read a blog entry from Jim Cushing entitled Standards Killed the IDE Star. In this blog, Jim muses about Sun’s decision to join the Eclipse group and the conditions they want to impose on IBM. Great blog entry and I have to agree with Jim completely. A must read.

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RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0

November 14, 2003

With the release of RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0, RedHat is poised to make an serious dent in the Enterprise space. I spent some time with our technical sales engineer from RedHat last week to talk their latest product offering. There are many improvements in v3.0 that will should help resolve some of the issues people [...]

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New books from Addison-Wesley

November 12, 2003

Just got an email from Addison-Wesley with a list of new books that were just released this week and I found quite a few jewels in those book. Here’s a list of books I just ordered via. Amazon along with a short description from their website. Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plug-Ins by Erich [...]

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Pre-compile JSP’s on JBoss?

November 8, 2003

Ok.. I’ve searched the JBoss and Jetty documentation and I can’t seem to find the answer. Anyone know how to precompile JSP when deploying a war file on JBoss? I am a WebLogic guy helping out someone that’s new to JBoss. In WebLogic, you just include a file called weblogic.xml that looks like this: [code [...]

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Streaming API for XML (StAX)

November 6, 2003

Just caught this on dev2dev – BEA is giving away the reference implementation of the Streaming API for Java (StAX). StAX is a Java based API for pull-parsing XML documented in JSR 173. Unlike SAX and DOM, StAX is bidirectional, allowing programs to both read existing XML documents and to create new ones. Just downloaded [...]

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Novell to acquire SuSE Linux

November 4, 2003

Just saw this article on InfoWorld – Novell to acquire SuSE Linux in cash deal. This is really interesting news, specially after their acquisition of Ximian around LinuxWorld. Novell had pretty much been written off with their Netware product line but they are trying to come back and become a viable option against Microsoft or [...]

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