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Technology Poems: The java.net top weblog introduces a new feature: our Poetry Corner. The first contribution is from Tom Clements. Tom's work as a Java poet was featured several years ago in the JavaOne conference coverage produced by JavaWorld magazine. We've got work by other poets on tap. Feel free to send your own to Poetry Corner as long as they focus on technology and don't contain references to that man from Nantucket. » Read more
(July 21, 2003 11:09AM PT)

Feature Stories

		Introduction To Naked Objects: It is time to strip applications of complex UIs and give users direct access to business objects. The concept is simple: write behaviorally complete business model objects and use generic views and controllers. » Read more (Jul 15, 2003)

		Analyze this - A conversation with James Gosling: For the past several years, Java's creator James Gosling has been working at Sun Labs, researching ways to analyze and manipulate programs represented as annotated parse trees, a project called Jackpot. In this first of three articles that will appear on Artima.com, Bill Venners talks with Gosling about how Jackpot can help programmers analyze, visualize, and refactor their programs. » Read more (Jul 13, 2003)

		First Community Meeting: java.net is itself a java.net community. We are in the process of organizing and figuring out how to best be a community. During this year's JavaOne conference, java.net's first community meeting was held. Here are the unedited notes of one of the Sun employees that helped steer this project before launch. » Read more (Jul 16, 2003)

Also Today

Scripting the Enterprise: There are a wealth of possibilities when a scripting language such as PHP is used together with Java. In Scripting the Enterprise, Dejan Bosanac takes a quick look at the origins of each language and outlines the added features that make them more natural partners. Bosanac sees advantages for both PHP and Java developers. His advice for Java developers is "soon you
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JSR 223: Scripting Pages in Java Web Applications: There have been several articles at java.net on scripting and Java. JSR 223 is designed to make it easier to integrate scripting in Java web applications. This JSR is designed to provide scripters with a "standard mechanism to access information developed in the Java platform. This Specification will describe how to write portable Java classes that can be invoked from a page written in an scripting language, including details on security, resources and class loader contexts. The specification will cover both the case where the Java clases are instantiated in a Java Servlet container and the case of a Java VM." Applications to join the Expert group are still being accepted.
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