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Group Dynamics: Clay Shirkey recommends that when you are constructing social software to support large and long-lived groups, you need to build in barriers to participation. For some groups this is a binary switch - you are in or you aren't. For others, non-members can do certain tasks (like reading the content posted on java.net ), while members can post replies, and higher levels of membership can host projects and perform other tasks. But, Shirkey stresses, "ease of use is wrong." » Read more
(July 24, 2003 8:37AM PT)
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A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy:
"You cannot completely separate technical and social issues." This is one of the fundamental underlying principles in Clay Shirkey's essay A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy. This essay looks understanding the balance of a group and the individuals that make it up and then outlines the requirements of producing software designed to support group interaction. » Read more
(Jul 24, 2003)
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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)
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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)
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Computer Visions: A Conversation with David Gelertner:
The ideas behind David Gelertner's Linda project were the inspiration for both Jini and JavaSpaces. In Janice Heiss' interview with Gelertner, he says that people at Sun have told him that his book Mirror Worlds was "one inspiration for Java technology." Gelertner muses on the idea of information beams: a way to collect all of the electronic information in his life into one single flowing stream.
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Droplets:
The feedback to Brian Coyner's article on Naked Objects has included pointers to other technology that allows the programmer to concentrate on the business logic. One solution for creating rich thin-client Java applications is to use Droplets. Droplets is a commercial product that the programmers uses to deploy the user interface of
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W3C XML Protocol WG Publishes SOAP MTOM Working Draft
The W3C XML Protocol Working Group has published the first working draft of a SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism. This specification shows the direction in which the WG is headed to address the handling of attachments for SOAP 1.2 messages.
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