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Saturday, 7 December 2002

Heard of HEP? It looks pretty cool: "Hep is a message server. It's a server in the sense that it's a program without a graphical user interface, that runs in the background, waiting for other programs to connect to it over the network. I call it a "message server" because it does things with messages, which as far as Hep is concerned are any little bits of text or HTML that you want to read, or save, or publish, or pass on to somebody else, or convert into a different format, or organize." 11:27:57 AM  comment []      Dylan is moving from Struts to the WW and has an interesting perspective on the benefits of WW: "There's a lot to like about WebWork: it's simple to configure, is a lot smaller in terms of mindset-investment than Struts, and the expression language rocks. The EL is a very xpath-like syntax for accessing bean properties, and accesses a sort of "stack" that corresponds to levels of access. " And JoeO's #java FAQ has an interesting entry named Why are people so down on Struts? "It's very popular, written up in many books, and violently loved by many... yet #java tends to sneer at morons who feel that Struts is THE WAY. Here's a short list of why Struts is looked down upon..." Food for thought anyway 11:24:17 AM  comment []