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Java Skyline: News

By the river side

Sep 15-Sep 21, 2001

From the top:
The first days are the hardest ones In this time of great sadness and mourning, I wish you solace, comfort, and hope. If you would, please join with me in the resolve to end violence. May your burdens be lightenned, your path brightenned. May we, the World, be blessed with peace.

As we stand by a river, we are reminded that it flows and the rain falls without any action on our part and needing no help from us it guides itself to the sea. Through out history, rivers have always been a place to stand in awe and silence, to be at peace, the place to lay weapons down, to cast our bread of woes, to weap, to remember, to be renewed. And if you wish, please read through the lyrics of the little song of hope
Uncle John's Band by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia, that some thoughtful person has posted. It's a place I've often gone in my mind when I needed to. Hey, there's even an annotated version. Hunter and Garcia were life long friends. Uncle John's Band was published on "Working Man's Dead" in 1970. In the same year, Hunter is supposed to have written Ripple and two other songs in a two hour period.

Be well.

Tech Sector: Sep 17 Computer, high tech trade continues growth in China (AsiaBizTech)
Attacks: Sep 14 Infrastructures taxed as nation, businesses reel from tragedy (InfoWorld) Continuing coverage by InfoWorld of effects on information, communication, security, and telecom industries.
Sep 14
Tech companies step up to offer relief Gwendolyn Mariano (CNet)
Sep 14 Corporate toll feared higher Jim Ericson (Line56) Deaths announced by BEA, Oracle.
Sep 14
BEA loses senior engineer In United Airlines crash Elizabeth Montalbano (CRN)
Sep 14
Tech world mourns loss of employees John Borland and Gwendolyn Mariano (CNet) Employees lost in the hijackings include those from Cisco Systems, Oracle, Applied Materials, Compaq Computer, Akamai Technologies, Metrocall, MRV Communications, Netegrity, eLogic, Raytheon Company, Sun Microsystems, NextWave Telecom, BEA Systems, Vividence and 3Com.

Sep 14
FBI seeks help from Earthlink, other ISPs to track terrorists Christina Torode (CRN)
Sep 14
Sun WTC employees all alive Andrew Orlowski (Register) See also 300 Sun employees based at World Trade Center (CRN)
Sep 14 Sun employee among those killed on American Flight 11 Elizabeth Montalbano (CRN)
Sep 12 Thousands of employees were on the front line Jack Bryar, (Register) A list of the companies that were located in the World Trade Center.
Sep 14
Continuing coverage Resue, Investigation, Links, and News Logs and latest news items for the World Trade Center and Pentagon hijack attacks.

Data: Sep 14 Black boxes tested at 3400 Gs, 1100 °C Will Knight (New Scientist) Also pressure of 5000 PSI. And black boxes are actually orange to make them easier to recover.
Web Sep 14 Web becomes global support forum (AP/NY Times)
Sep 14 Senate OKs FBI Net Spying Declan McCullagh (Wired) See also
. Congress OKs $40 Billion for anti-terrorism; double Bush request Elisbeth Bumiller, Jane Perlez (NY Times/SJ Merc)

Sep 14
FBI steps up Net surveillance, following terror attack (Register)
Sep 14 Will Attack Hurt Net Privacy? Tom Spring, Frank Thorsberg (PC World)
Sep 14 Feds push Carnivore Declan McCullagh (Wired)
Sep 10
The XP upgrade dilemma Paula Rooney (CRN) See also: Click here to calculate how much Win XP will cost you Linda Harrison (Register) Introducing Forbes Windows XP ROI Calculator (Forbes) which reported that my own costs to upgrade one desktop and one laptop would be about $19,000 - mostly labor, but including $1,000 of license costs but it will all net out in about 5 years - just in time for Windows 2006 I guess.
Sep 2 Single line of code danger fools IIS to run rogue program Will Knight (New Scientist)
AI Sep 9  Brain cells, silicon chips linked electronically Shankar Vedantam (Wash Post)
Computing Sep 9  NSF to host distinguished lecture series on large scale networking Tom Garritano (EurekAlert)
Nano Sep 9  Controllable 2D nanopatterns imaged (Sandia)
 
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Agile methods/modeling Sep 20  ThoughtWorks to acquire Calgary firm Servidium Inc. (Yahoo)
Sep 18 Instantiations wins IBM 'Cool Tool' Award Mike Taylor (Instantiations Insider)  IBM has named Instantiations as recipient of one of eight IBM Solutions Excellence Awards - as winner of the "Cool Tool" category.
Sep 18
Instantiation's VA Assist Enterprise/J streamlines transition to new WebSphere development tools (Yahoo) 
Sep 17 IS Architecture Pattern: Table Module, Units of Work  Martin Fowler (MartinFowler) To improve dealing with RDBMS, Martin and company introduce a Table Model with generic table handling and Units of Work that keeps track of RDMBS update and commit states.

Aug 28 XP the Agile alliance and RUP (PDF) Sinan Si Alhir (SAlhir) Sinan recently updated this article on his Sinan Si Alhir Web Site He notes "This paper is not about XP vs. RUP. It's about XP and RUP."
 Aug 30
Java Modeling: Holonic software development Granville Miller (IBM) The best organizational development methods, says Granville Miller, are ones that enable people to work together while each utilizes their best skills. He compares develoment to a battle field scenario where success requires training and initiative and to succeed indivduals must act together as a team.

General Aug 30 Workspace Versioning and Configuration Management JSR 147 Geoffrey Clemm, Rational (JCP)
Aug 27 A look at PARC's Aspect oriented compiler Larry O'Brien (SD Mag) "Mark my words," says Larry O'Brien "Aspects are going to cause an epochal shift in programming right up there with the object shift of a decade ago." The article has a good explanation of AspectJ that's easy to follow.
Aug 27
The myth of code-centricity Jack Harich (JavaWorld) Article discusses some interesting ideas like "Tool congruence." Reusabliity results from configuration via declarative knowledge as is done in J2EE - but the framework is young and visual tools for configuration are lacking. This is solved by a solution Jack calls "system imagery." If "system imagery" sounds like a fancy name for "visual configuration tool" - it is actually. Another myth bytes the dust.

Distributed Apps  Aug 28 Popkin, Casewise, CSC to develop Business Process Modeling notation with support from BPMI.org (Yahoo)
Aug 26 Architecting and designing scalable multi-tier systems Michael Minh Nguyen (Java Report)

Patterns Sep 3 Code reuse via design patterns  Tony Higham (WebSphere Advisor)
UML Sep 21 Together Control Center 5.5 offers J2EE, Web service integration (TogetherSoft/Java Skyline)
. TogetherSoft . Download Eval
Sep 21
 OMG members meet in Toronto, charter Web services SIG  (Yahoo)
Sep 21 Review: Java Diagram Component  Olivier Dedieu (Java Channel)
Java Diagram Component Home 

Sep 20
 How to map UML models to W3C XML Schema definitions Dave Carlson (XML.Com)
Sep 19 NeuVis to help OMG shape future eBusiness Technologies and Standards (Yahoo) 

Sep 17 Rhapsody 4.0 due this year Edward J. Correia (SDTimes) The new version will completely revamp the user interface, including a visual team integration feature that lets users see version differences visually.

Sep 9 Sun posts Java Metadata Interface (JMI) Spec 1.0 (Sun) The JMI specification corresponds to XMI which is used to transfer model metadata between UML applications.
Sep 7 Gentleware releases Poseidon for UML beta 7 (Gentleware)
Sep 5
 I-Logix Unveils Rhapsody 4.0 (Yahoo)
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I-Logix Rhapsody TestConductor to bring UML-based test solution to embedded software development (Yahoo)
Sep 4 Project Technology brings Model Driven Architecture to the real-time and embedded market (Yahoo)
Aug 30 OMG Members meet to chart course for UML 2.0  (Yahoo)  See also: OMG to meet on UML 2.0, Action Semantics (OMG) The next Analysis & Design TF meeting in Toronto on Sep 12 will discuss UML 2.0 issues and Action Semantics. The idea of Action Semantics is to define a way of specifying actions that is independent of data organization. For more information see:
. Action Semantics RFP (DOC/PDF/PS/RTF/Ascii) James Odell
. Action Semantics for UML RFP Progress
. OMG Technical Meeting Agendas 
Models that run: Aug 28 Poseidon: Taking UML to eXtremes Rich Katz (Java Skyline) Reducing the time between modeling and testing is one of Gentleware's major aims. The company, led by Dr. Marko Boger applies their user friendly, designer-centric approach to their new Poseiden product, based on ArgoUML. Their plans include adapting eXtreme Modeling to Posiden - including making UML models that run inside Poseiden. This article includes an interview with Marko Boger plus a short test drive of their new Poseidon for UML, Community Edition 1.0.
IDEs Sep 19  WebGain Studio 4.5.1 'Cascades' to have better team support, integrate with app servers (Yahoo)

Sep 19 New Forte for Java, Release 3.0 shipped; simplifies development of Sun ONE applications (Yahoo)Sep 18 Webgain packages three power tools together: VisualCafe, Turbo XML, UltraDev (JIC) 
Sep 17 NetBeans expands beyond Java Alan Zeichick (SDTimes) NetBeans can now be used with other languages besides Java and even other editors - like emacs.
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www.netbeans.orgSep 12 Forte for Java: guided tour online (JDC)
Sep 10 WebGain Application Composer to incorporate and Flashline Component Manager (Yahoo)
Sep 2 Oracle Launches New Java-Based IDE For 9i AS Alan Zeichick (SDTimes)
Sep 3 IBM WebSphere Studio -- the next generation (IBM) See also Team Support in WebSphere Studio Gary Karasiuk (IBM)
Aug 30 Sun releases Forte for Java 3.0, Community, Enterprise (Sun FfJ) Sun has posted the new version of Forte for Java Community and Enterprise editions. The Enterprise version supports Forte Enterprise Services Presentation Toolkit (ForteESP) which provides IDE capabilities to help generate JSPs. FfJ has an extensive FAQ database you can explore to obtain information on how to use features of the platform. The community edition is free. You can download the enterprise edition on a try/buy basis for 60 days.
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Sep 2 Forte for Java 3.0 Jim Milbery (JDJ) 
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Java  Sep 19 J2SE 1.3.1a Early Access (JDC)
Sep 17
We?re No. 1! Now What? Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (SDTimes) According to a recent Evans Data Corp analysis, Java with its huge library base will soon pass C/C++.

Sep 16
Access control for partial exposure Wally Flint (JavaWorld)
Sep 16 Exceptional practices, Part 2 Brian Goetz (JavaWorld)
Sep 16 Tips 'N Tricks Java Tip 116: Set your table options -- at runtime! Sonal Goyal with John D. Mitchell (JavaWorld)
Sep 16 Java Q&A Delegates Tony Sintes (JavaWorld)Sep 14 Gosling: Effective Java: Notes from a Java Technology Programmer Thomas Ulrich (Sun)
Sep 13
New-to-Java Programming Center Supplement (JDC) A directory of basic introductory information on Java such as if/else and switch blocks, class libraries, primitive vs. reference types. and some learning puzzles and exercizes that are fun.
Sep 13
 More revelations from a Java geek with a Ti laptop.  James Davidson (OnJava)
Sep 13  Jini as an Enterprise Solution  Dave Sag (OnJava)
Sep 13  Jxta command shell Sing Li (IBM)
Sep 10 Data Structures in Java: Part 14, The Comparator Interface, Part 6  Richard G. Baldwin (EarthWeb)
Sep 9  Accelerate your RMI programming Ashok Mathew and Mark Roulo (JavaWorld)
Sep 9  Master Merlin's new I/O classes  Michael T. Nygard (JavaWorld)
Sep 9 Object-oriented language basics, Part 6 Jeff Friesen (JavaWorld)
Sep 9  Java Q&A Abstract classes and interfaces practicum Tony Sintes (JavaWorld)
 
  Servers: J2EE • EJB • JSP • Web Services • Database
JSP/Servlets Sep 21 Review: Appenture JSP Database Custom Tag Library Olivier Dedieu (Java Channel)
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Appenture Group Database Tag Library Home (Appenture)
Sep 20  New tagServlet 2.0 release from n-ary (Yahoo)
Sep 19 What is a Tag body Dan Gross (JDC Qow)
Sep 19
 OSCache 1.6.1 released (Open Symphony) OSCache enables caching unchanged sections of a JSP to speed response.
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Release Notes . Download (Yahoo)

Sep 19 JCP JSR #53 Servlets 2.3, JSP 1.2 Spec FCS posted (Sun) To go along with the final release of Tomcat 4.0.
Sep 18 Jakarta Tomcat 4.0 Final posted (Jakarta) As Jakarta predicted earlier this week, Tomcat 4.0 has been posted. This particular Tomcat release has raised a lot of interest in unusual places like SlashDot - where some 150 messages have been posted so far. There are a lot of questions. So if you would like to be helpful, click over to Apache: Tomcat 4.0 Final Released Hemos (SlashDot) and lend an answer or two.

Sep 18
 Jakarta posts LogKit 1.05b, new emphasis on Catus  (Jakarta)

Sep 16
Tomcat 4.0-rc2, Avalon 1.1 released; Tomcat final scheduled for Sep 17 (Jakarta)
Sep 13 Introduction to Jakarta Struts Framework  Sue Spielman (OnJava)
Sep 12 JSP Security  Jordan Dimov (EarthWeb)
Sep 12 Best Practices with Expresso Framework: Using a framework to create a web application  Peter Pilgrim  (ServerSide)
Web services/SOAP/WSDL/UDDI Sep 18  IONA launches Web Services Webcast Series (Yahoo) The series entitled "The Truth about Web services" runs from Sep 20 through Nov 15. Each Webcast is on a different topic. Participants can select individual Webcasts.
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Register Here for Webcast
Sep 18  SilverStream unveils cornerstones of eXtend (Yahoo) eXtend Composer and SilverStream eXtend Director provide an integrated environment for development, assignment, and deployment of J2EE Web services. See also: SilverStream and Autonomy Expand Strategic Partnership With OEM Agreement (Yahoo). To download eXtend product evaluations see:
. Silverstream eXtend Workbench homepage

Sep 18 Idoox's WASP 3.0 beta 1 integrates J2EE (Idoox/Zvon) Idoox's Web Applications and Services Platform (WASP) 3.0 provides J2EE integration including connecting to JNDI over SOAP, EJB over SOAP and JMS over SOAP. It is SOAP 1.1 and WSDL 1.1 compliant.
Sep 18  WSDL for Defining Web Services Don Kiely (XML Mag/DevX) Will the XML Protocol Working Group get around to making WSDL a standard. This four page article provides some background on where WSDL has been and where it's going.
. WSDL example.

Sep 18
 InfoWorld Special on Web Services InfoWorld has published an interesting set of articles on Web services.
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Solving the Web services puzzle James R. Borck The author sees an "unfaultering optimism" about Web services in the industry and says although provides an over-simplified view of transactions, simplicity is the very key to its success.
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Leaders of the Web services pack James R. Borck Overview of offerings from Microsoft, IBM, HP, and Sun. Doing so leaves out 3/4 of the market. But even this is a lot better than the "No SOAP for Sun" article (see below).
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Web services bring e-businesses together James R. Borck A good set of diagrams that explain how the ebXML registry complements the UDDI registry
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Reuse Grail is in sight with Web services Michael Vizard Since Web service components form actual functional business units that can be accessed by other business units, we ought to finally see some re-use.

Sep 17 Linux developers embrace Web services (Yahoo)
I'm a SOAP Man dept.
Sep 16 Enterprise Applications / No SOAP for Sun; Microsoft tool has edge (ZDNet) Is it just me? Or does this article seem somewhat lacking in direction? I mean, does it make sense to compare Visual Studio with Sun's Forte for Java with the intent to find out if Sun has SOAP or not? (And then decide "Sun ain't got no SOAP?") Click here to say what you think. Or should a comparision also take into account Apache SOAP, Cape Studio, Idoox, Glue, AltoWeb, IBMs WSDK, plus other IDEs, and Sun's recent DCB Web services practices outline - since 1) these already provide Java with a lot of SOAP, and 2) they'll in all likelihood contribute greatly to Sun/JCP JAX efforts? Speaking of which...

Sep 16
XML messaging, Part 3 Dirk Reinshagen (JavaWorld) Describes JAXM and ebXML capabilities and Java SOAP messaging.

Sep 14 Grand Central holds webinar on Web services (Grand Central) Thursday, 20 Sep 2001, 1:00 PM Pacific Time (PT). Please contact Bill West for to sign up or for additional information. See also downloadable whitepaper:
. Web services: Enabling the collaborative enterprise (PDF) Scott Durschlag, Craig Donato, John Hagel
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Grand Central
http://www.placeware.com/cc/grandcentral/A?id=Webinar%20Sept%2020&pw=584906

Sep 14
Sun upgrades Web service strategy (Sun)  Sun has outlined the scope of the new Web service strategy in a white paper called Java Technology Today (PDF). (Note that recent important elements also appear on the Dot Com Builder Web services special site as well).
Sep 12
 Web services insider, Part 9: Digging into the issues   James Snell,  Maryann Hondo (IBM)
Sep 12 Infravio releases enterprise Web services management system (Yahoo)
Sep 12  webMethods provides scalable, high-performance integration to J2EE application servers (Yahoo)
See also webMethods to Provide Support for Web Services Standards (JIC)
Sep 10  Bind Systems joins OASIS to Further Participate in the advancement of ebXML (Yahoo)
Sep 10  Information Architects joins iPlanet ISV partner program (Yahoo)
Sep 9  ebXML: Revolutionizing the engines of business  Kammie Kayl (Sun) See also:
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ebXML: The Key Components  Kammie Kayl (Sun)     
Sep 9   IBM posts new Web Services Toolkit with support for HTTPR  (alphaWorks)
Messaging Sep 19 JMS Tutorial FCS (Sun)
Sep 18
Borland selects Sonic for eBusiness messaging (Yahoo)
Sep 10  Actional and BEA to offer standards-based, end-to-end integration connectivity (Yahoo)
Sep 9  Lutris adds JMS support to EAS 4 (JavaWorld) See also
J2EE/EJB Sep 21 Microsoft's .Net: Not a J2EE killer  (JIC)
Sep 21 New Java Transaction Manager - Java Transaction Service (JTS) (Atomikos) Atomikos has posted its new JTA transaction manager.  
Sep 21
Of Lutris and licensing Craig A. Berry (Wrox)

Sep 20
 Clustering with JBoss/Jetty [Sep. 18, 2001]  Bill Burke (OnJava)
Sep 20  Learning EJB QL [Sep. 19, 2001]  Jeelani B. Shaik (OnJava)
Sep 20  IBM B2B software facilitates transactions Renee Boucher Ferguson (eWeek/Yahoo)
Sep 19 J2EE Tutorial FCS (Sun) 
Sep 19
 J2EE Connection Architecture Sample Resource Adaptor 1.0 FCS posted (Sun)
Sep 19 ATG Dynamo eBusiness to run on IBM Websphere (Yahoo)
Sep 19 CRM with with WebSphere Tim Biernat (IBM) Discusses building a customer history report using session state persistence.

Sep 18
J2EE 1.3, Connector 1.0, EJB 2.0 specs posted (Sun)
Sep 17
 Lutris Technologies Announces Availability of Lutris EAS 4 (Yahoo) See also:
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Lutris backs off support of Open Source Enhydra, citing problems with Sun license Grant Gross (NewsForge)
Sep 17 Is WebSphere 4.0 4U? Andrew Binstock (SDTimes) WebSphere 4.0 doesn't support EJB 2.0 features yet.  But WebSphere's JMS, built on top of MQ Series, is XA compliant and WebSphere 4.0 ships with IBM's Web services features to support UDDI, SOAP, and WDSL and uses the J2EE Connection Architecture to communicate with ERPs (SAP, Seibel, PeopleSoft), according to the article.

Sep 17
 Dial 9i App Server to call all applications  David Rubinstein (SDTimes) This fall, Oracle plans to use an XML schema in 9i AS Wireless Edition Version 2.0 to define application flows, achieve device independence, and enable voice applications.

Sep 12 Migrating from EJB 1.1 to 2.0  Beth Stearns (JDC)
Sep 12 Deciding whether EJB is appropriate  Ed Roman (ServerSide)
Sep 10  BEA and Epicentric to offer comprehensive solution for eBusiness personalized portals (Yahoo)
Sep 9  Core J2EE Patterns John Crupi (JDC) .
Sep 9
 Iona's Total Business integration now supports embedded apps (JavaWorld)
 DB O/R Sep 17 Versant revs enJin accelerator  David Rubinstein (SDTimes) Versant's enJin 2.2 not only makes J2EE run faster, it also has transparent object management that simplifies EJB creation and integrates with several IDEs and the UML based Together/J. Plus it has a JSP Tag library.

Sep 17
 Software AG: Tamino XML database 2.3 much faster Alan Zeichick (SDTimes) The new version responds far more rapidly to complex queries, according to the company.
www.softwareagusa.com

Sep 17 NeoCore upgrades XML Database  Christina M. Purpi (SDTimes)

Sep 9
Using Static and Dynamic SQL in SQLJ  Jason Price (OnJava)
Sep 9  Versant enhances enJin 2.2 (JavaWorld)
XML: Standards Content SemanticWeb: XSLT • RDF • RSS • Schema • DOM • XHTML • Xetc.
SVG Sep 13  Picture Perfect  Edd Dumbill (XML.Com) W3C hopes SVG will be the XML answer to Flash. It faces several "M" problems. The first is Microsoft - which doesn't want to support plug-ins (although it does) and that includes Adobe SVG. The second is Macromedia - which as per recent deal, Microsoft does support. The third is Mozilla which wants to support SVG but doesn't yet. And the fourth is "Megabytes" - of which the Adobe plug-in has too many of - 3 to be exact. Add it all up, and no matter how good SVG is...well you get the picture.

Sep 10
 Hypewatch: SVG Love  David Fox (EarthWeb)
Semantics Sep 13 RDF test cases  Simon St.Laurent (xmlhack)
Sep 13  Cleaned-up RDF syntax in prospect  Edd Dumbill (xmlhack)
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Refactoring RDF/XML Syntax (W3C)

Sep 4 Recent Ontology/RDF XML update summary Edd Dumbill (xmlhack) Edd summarizes recent events in RDF, XML Topic Maps, and the Web Ontology Working Group charter by Dan Connolly and mentions Brian McBride's summary of the 1-2nd August 2001 Meeting of the W3C RDFCore WG (O'Reilly, Sebastopol).

Aug 28
Ontoprise posts OntoEdit 1.0.3 Beta (Ontoprise) OntoEdit is an editor that enables defining concepts in a concept hierarchy. It supports multiple inheritence and creation of basic axioms. OntoEdit also serves as a bridge between the scripting and logic world supporting RDF, DAML+OIL, and FLogic import and export. See:
. OntoEdit Main Page . Download Area for 1.0.3
Back to school: A mind is a wonderful thing to learn with but
- no cheating on your Turing test dept.
Aug 28
Minds and Machines Ned Block (NYU) A course that will emphasize semantics and a representational theory for the mind. The course syllabus has some great references - including one to Hutchens great set of papers: How to Pass the Turing Test by Cheating (NEC) (use this link if the NYU one doesn't work) and Ned Block's own The Mind as the Software of the Brain and What is functionalism? (NYU).

Come for the Java. Stay for the DECAF dept.
Aug 28 Multi-Agent Systems Keith Decker (Univ Delaware), José Vidal (South Carolina) Reported on: AgentWeb Two courses based on the book Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Gerhard Weiss, Ed (MIT Press) The South Carolina course Multiagent systems CSCE 782 gives credit for participating in RoboCup. Check the calender and José M. Vidal's Home page for resources on Semantic Web, agents, and AI. Another course also called Multi-Agent Systems CISC 889 at the University of Delaware This one features a Java-KQML based system called DECAF with this Overview (PDF). There is also a Programming Introduction (PS) - you'll need a Post Script viewer: See RoPS. DECAF comes with two other software systems: MatchMaker and PlanEditor. All three can be downloaded from:
. DECAF Home Click the Download link. Keith Decker, John R. Graham (Univ Delaware)

Aug 28
Machines to talk intelligently on Web Dan Gillmor (SJ Merc) Discusses the people involved in the Semantic Web, W3C, RDF and XML, and some potential and eventual uses - and some basic Semantic Web ideas: making what we display understandable to other machines.

Aug 19 Semantic Web an SVG Navigator (Mondeca)
Aug 19 Proceedings from Semantic Web Mining Workshop (SWMW-ECML/PPKD) European Confernece on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery PPKD.  Of note a paper describingapproaches to add semantic content to the existing Web and a paper describing DODDLE II, a RAD tool for domain ontology.  The conference to be held in Freiburg on Sept 3.  However, the procedings are already published - see link above.  If you download the first PDF it contains all the others.

 XML Sep 20  Java and XML tips and tricks Brett McLaughlin (O'Reilly)
Sep 20  On IE6's XML conformance -- or the lack thereof.... Lee Dodds (XML.Com)

Sep 19
Rapid Web development with CSS and XHTML   James Lewin (IBM) How to create flexible sites quickly using standards like CSS and  XHTML
Sep 18 XMLSpy 4.0 widens target audience Eric van der Vlist (xmlhack) People who aren't even XML Geeks can now use XMLSpy, according to Eric. See also: Sep 12  Altova, Inc. releases XML Spy 4.0 comprehensive tool suite for advanced XML application development (Yahoo)
. XMLSpy home . Download eval
Sep 16
New version 1.1 of XML Query Engine Howard Katz (FatDog) FatDog announces release 1.1 of XQEngine. The new release provides setExplicitDocument(): the ability to access Internet documents plus it fixes several bugs, and has a lower price for the developer license (OEM and distribution licenses are separate).
. XML Query Engine . Download Eval . New FAQ
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Tech Walkthrough . Intro to XQuery

Sep 13
Pork Barrel Protocols  Martin Gudgin, Timothy Ewald (XML.Com)
Sep 13  What Are XForms?  Micah Dubinko (XML.Com) To replace the aging HTML form processing, XForms aims to provide device independence plus XML integration.
Sep 13
 XPointer published as a W3C candidate recommendation (Cover)
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XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version 1.0
Sep 13
W3C Schema test collection available   Edd Dumbill (xmlhack)
Sep 13  New XML editor  Edd Dumbill (xmlhack)
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XMLMind XML Editor
 
Wireless/Telecom/Net Devices
J2ME/MidP, VMs, Software, etc. Sep 20  Insignia Launches New Java 'Virtual Machine' for PDAs (Yahoo)
Sep 19 developerWorks: Wireless : WAP bashing   Scott Stemberger (IBM) Have reports of WAP's death been exaggerated?
Sep 18 HTTP connections in background; MIDP Gauges Eric Giguere (JDC: J2ME Tech Tips) 
Getting the whole enchilada dept.

Sep 17
 SavaJe to roll out J2SE OS for ARM; launches partner programs (Yahoo)
Sep 14 Software turns GPRS phones Into Modems (allNetDevices) Starfish Software's Simplify GPRS software configures a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) telephone as a modem that can run with a laptop computer or Pocket PC PDA.
Sep 14
Display Effects Roman Bialach (MicroJava) How to move an image through a canvas.
Sep 14
 ACCESS Co's NetFront 3.0 i-Mode browser to support WAP 2.0 (allNetDevices)
Sep 12
 How can I build the J2ME CDC/Foundation Profile 1.0 FCS using RedHat Linux 7.1? Ed Ort (JDC QoW)
Sep 10 Kada JVM Enables Mobile Java Elizabeth Montalbano (CRN)
Sep 10  Lutris Technologies announces Micro-application server for J2ME devices (Yahoo)
Devices Sep 20  OneEighty launches Origin-J first full Java platform for $1 Chip  (Yahoo)
Sep 20  P&S DataCom selects ProSyst's OSGi gateway for their WebChip products (Yahoo)
Sep 18  Nokia adds XHTML to Mobile Internet Toolkit Version 3.0 (allNetDvc)
Sep 18
 Sprint gears Java for 3G  Ashlee Vance (InfoWorld) See also:
Sprint PCS to base 3G applications on Java
Sprint to Deploy Java Applications on Sprint PCS Phones With Launch Of Third-Generation (3G) Network in Mid 2002
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Sprint PCS brings Java to handsets Ashlee Vance (JavaWorld)
Sep 17 Philips to help drive growth of interactive digital TV via innovative development tools (Yahoo)
Sep 17 Passport Corporation launches wireless alliance (Yahoo)
Sep 17 Motorola unveils the i.250 2.5G GSM/GPRS platform (Yahoo)
Sep 17 Webraska signs marketing and reselling agreement with Ericsson  (Yahoo) Ericsson to integrate Webraska's Wireless Navigation Platform in Its Location-based Service Offering

Sep 10 di Caprio touts gorilla-friendly mobile phones (Register) Mining activity in the Congo for the mineral Coltan (colombo tantalite)is wiping out critical natural habitat area for eastern lowland gorilla's, pushing them toward extinction. Coltan is a conductor used as a coating for mobile phones components. Out of concern, Leonardo di Caprio is backing a Dian Fossey Fund campaign for coltan-free mobile phones.
Sep 9
 Change ahead for mobile phones: Software could soup up options (Tech Review)
Telco/SP/Nets Sep 14 Verizon: NYC Restoration Work Proceeding Kyle Balluck (WashTech)
Sep 13
Cisco intros mid-range optical routers John Leyden (Register)
Sep 9  Device could make for faster Internet, better communications  Betty Lise Anderson (Ohio State) 'Optical interconnect' built on microscopic mirrros transfers data between fibre optic cables. See also: SciTech commercializing arm creates first company Laura Newpoff (Business First)

    
  SkyScrapers: Applications, Allies, ASPs, & Announcments
Sep 21
Training: New course from Learning Tree advances skills with hands-on development of EJBs  (Yahoo)
Training:  
CustomWare to bring Borland and EJB/J2EE training courses worldwide (Yahoo)
Windows Integration: