I have a gmail account. Today, when I signed in and then signed out, I suddenly noticed that in the ‘username’ field it is now showing my full email address. This is instead of just username. So, ‘user@gmail.com’ instead of just ‘user’.
If I am not imagining things and that was the change, then there is only one reason I can guess for that. Gmail is planning to introduce additional domains (as mail.
A while ago BEA has introduced Dev2Dev, a way to reach out to the BEA community. The website has gone through at least 3 changes, but was still not overly popular. Finally, BEA has realised that a 3rd party will do a better job out of it.
Meet CodeShare, a new project developed by BEA with great help from O’Reilly Media and CollabNet.
The biggest problem with Dev2Dev in my opinion was that you could publish something to it, but it was hard to update.
Altova, the maker of XMLSpy has released several standalone engines that previously were only available as part of the editor itself. They have XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0 and XQuery engines. XSLT 1.0 implementation looks very complete, XSLT 2.0 is less so.
Of course, my own preference is XMLStarlet. I call it The find of XML world because I like to do a lot of ad-hoc queries on XML files. Also XMLStarlet is available on multiple platforms (Altova is for Windows world only).
If you often wonder which jar a particular class comes from, Jarhoo has indexed a number of common distributions of java applications and libraries and allows to do a quick lookup by a name substring or a jar file substring.
Among other applications, it includes BEA Weblogic, so it is sometimes useful for me in troubleshooting classpath issues.
There are some growing pains still:
It does not indicate which Service Pack of the product is uses.
A discussion on JavaLobby is trying to compare the AppServer features and ease of development. Only free AppServers need to apply.
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