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Monday, 25 November 2002

OK - I must apologise, I've been neglecting the java.blogs community for too long - damn that life outside the PC Anyway - you'll be glad to know that we actually do have some code working in house for a portal-like-aggregator-style-thing for the world (see rebelutionary archives for info), but I think the best way to see how it works is just to put it up and get some feedback on it? It's got a few cobwebs on it (read - some of it was written very late at night), I'll grab a few guys at the office tomorrow and see if we can't get it ripping along by tomorrow night (or maybe the next day). Hopefully the whole thing will be a good lesson for the community in how to aggregate a 'group' of blogs and produce useful content, whilst still keeping the (very important!) individual, decentralised nature of the blogosphere. Stay tuned! 11:46:01 PM  comment []      There is no clear winner.. Triangle-based Webperformance, Inc. has published a Servlet Container Performance Report that compares Tomcat, Orion, Jetty, Resin, SunOne, and Websphere. The testing methodology and the results are interesting and really show off the Webperformance product. The conclusion is that there is no clear winner in the Servlet-only performance race. UPDATE: Webperformance left Weblogic out of the review, but Kasia did not. [Blogging Roller] ha! Resin and Orion seem to be the winners here? Although Tomcat is catching up fast (if this was done with Tomcat 4.0.x it would have been shameful) One thinks he should add in the price factor 11:05:51 PM  comment []      I've been using Popfile all day - and it's really cool! It's a cross platform Bayesian spam filter (well - because it's Bayesian it will categorise any messages you want statistically) that works brilliantly. Written in Perl, it basically runs as a POP gateway - simply change your POP server to 127.0.0.1, and your POP username to mypophost.com:username and voila! It even has a nifty web interface to configure the buckets (I have spam / nonspam at the moment - might add a work bucket to see how it goes!) available on localhost too. 10:57:15 PM  comment []      The Jetty documentation contains "Working with international characters" which is an excellent explanation of the problems inherent in internationalising Java applications. Not specific to Jetty, it should apply to all Servlet 2.3 compatible servers. 10:42:51 AM  comment []