April 2004

Matt Raible was blogging about JSTL and internationalization in his blog in the entry entitled i18n – synching up Struts and JSTL. The blog talks about how to enable localized app and load the appropriate application resource property file.
We actually had to go the other way in our application. We didn’t want to [...]

The 2nd day of the Wisconsin Java Software Symposium (“No Fluff, Just Stuff” Java Symposium) was another great day. I spent my morning attending 2 sessions on ‘Aspect-oriented programming with AspectJ’ by Ramnivas Laddad. Ramnivas Laddad is the author ‘AspectJ in Action: Practical aspect-oriented programming’. Ramnivas is an active member of [...]

The Milwaukee No-Fluff-Just-Stuff-Poluza is 24 hrs away and the countdown has begun. I am really excited to see old friends and make new friends while learning what I can from the sessions and speakers. Here’s a preliminary list of the sessions that I planning on attending:

Friday
 1:15 – 2:45 PM JavaServer Faces Fundamentals [...]

At eWorld, BEA dev2dev is going to launch a new free magazine, WebLogic Pro! The first issue of this magazine will focus on Service-Oriented Architecture, and includes articles on web services, XMLBeans, and a special feature article written by Scott Dietzen, BEA’s CTO. To receive a copy and information about signing up for [...]

BEA Systems is working on delivering Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) capabilities for Web services in a product slated for release early next year. Gartner defines an ESB as a new architecture that exploits Web services, messaging middleware, intelligent routing, and transformation. ESBs act as a lightweight, ubiquitous integration backbone through which software services and [...]

I’m sure you’ve heard by now that Microsoft and Sun has ended their long running feud and settled the lawsuit and reached a broad agreement. Complete coverage at news.com.
Under the 10-year pact, Microsoft will pay Sun $700 million to resolve antitrust issues and $900 million to resolve patent issues. The companies will pay royalties [...]