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Moving to beta 0.2: It's still early days for java.net We went live a little under a month ago and still have a long way to go. We're still tagging this release as beta 0.1. We're working on content and infrastructure and would appreciate your feedback. The O'Reilly team will be meeting in Portland this week at OSCon , if you have feedback on how we can improve this site either drop me an email today or tomorrow at daniel@oreilly.com or use the talkback below. » Read more
(July 7, 2003 6:15AM PT)

Feature Stories

		Living with Leaks: Selecting the correct level of abstraction that hides the complexity of the implementation (but provides adequate control of the relevant details) can be a daunting task. Everyone has different ideas regarding "adequate control" and "relevant details." This article looks at five levels of abstraction. » Read more (Jul 03, 2003)

		A Look Back at JavaOne: This year's JavaOne conference attendence was about the same size as last year, with about 12,000 attendees, but the mood was upbeat. People are moving forward to make things happen. Barring some new huge shock to the system, author John Mitchell is taking this as a leading indicator that we've reached the bottom are heading back up. » Read more (Jun 27, 2003)

Also Today

Generics in Java: Rob Smith discusses some of the changes to Java that are coming in J2SE 1.5. In Generics in Java , Smith focuses on the features from JSR 14 that will be included in the Java programming language with the Tiger release next year.
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A Python JAR File Auditor: Doug Tilman ports a jar file auditor he wrote in Java to Python. In this DevX article, Tilman presents the Python port of the auditor and points out the advantages of making the change.
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