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Thursday, 23 May 2002

Charles Miller: "It's too hot. It's too humid. I'm stuck in cubicle-land out in Alexandria for two weeks, consulting. Yick." Sometimes I wonder if Charles is in the same city I am. In the CBD it's damn cold this week! 5:55:12 PM  comment []      Java-Channel.org wrote a brief review of JIRA - cool! [Java-Channel.org] 12:36:56 PM  comment []      Creating Web Services with Apache Axis. I just had to post this article for the introduction: "Are Web services like high school sex (everybody talks about it, but few do it)? Not with tools like Apache Axis, which make creating Web services clean and easy." But if you really want to make web services clean and easy, forget Axis - get Glue. [Meerkat] 12:35:49 PM  comment []      Golden Gate bridge may charge walkers and cyclists. A huge pity! I was in San Francisco for JavaOne this year with the team, and we mountain biked across the bridge and all around Marin County. It was a fantastic experience, it would be shame if this toll reduced the number of people who did it every year. [www.davidwatson.org] 12:33:43 PM  comment []      CNet is having a J2EE-application-server day. How close can Big Blue get to BEA? and Sun eyes application server market along with the Oracle article below. IBM is certainly closing the gap on BEA, almost completely because of their professional services division - noone chooses Websphere but IBM consultants. As for Sun, how many times have they eye'd the market already? [CNET News.com] 12:31:16 PM  comment []      Can app servers revive Oracle?. A fluffy interview on CNet about Oracle 9iAS. I do hope that Oracle kick some ass in the J2EE app server market. While it does bundle a lot of crap, the core of their server is (technically) very superior for both IBM and Sun. [CNET News.com] 12:28:41 PM  comment []      E3: Attack of the Games. Last year's battle over console supremacy has morphed into a skirmish for the hottest new games. Brad King reports from the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. [Wired News] 12:22:04 PM  comment []      Forbes.com: Share the Love: "BEA Systems made a fortune selling software to the elite. Now it's stealing a page from Microsoft: evangelizing to the geeky masses." I think it's great that BEA has realised that they need to get more love from J2EE developers. Every J2EE developer I know who uses BEA hates it - their managers chose it not them (95% of them would rather choose Orion). That said, I personally think BEA is going the wrong way in evangelising themselves. VB-like, ultra-easy-to-use development environments are one thing but nowhere near the whole picture. (As an aside, Weblogic Workshop doesn't seem close to VB in functionality from what I can see - it's basically only for web services). If I were running BEA I'd start a division to contribute to Open Source Java projects. That's the sort of thing that gets developers on your side, and also generates useful code for yourselves. Red Hat gets a lot of mileage out of this, Apple is starting to be appreciated by the Open Source community and even Sun is not so hated anymore because of its contributions to Gnome and StarOffice. So why does BEA seem to hate Open Source? For that matter, are there any J2EE vendors who contribute to Open Source? (Apart from JBoss - they don't count!) 12:03:33 PM  comment []