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Java Events: Today we debut the new java.net Event Calendar. Check the listings for upcoming interesting conferences, meetings, seminars, and social gatherings. Submit your Java events allowing us time to process and post them. » Read more
(August 4, 2003 6:55AM PT)

Feature Stories

		Lucene Intro: Lucene is a high-performance, scalable, search engine technology. The first part of this article takes you through an example of using Lucene to index all the text files in a directory and its subdirectories. The remainder provides examples of analysis and searching. » Read more (Jul 30, 2003)

		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)

Also Today

SQLite ...quick and dirty SQL server: In his java.net weblog entry SQLite ...quick and dirty SQL server Michael Ivey shares his enthusiasm for SQLite. Ivey describes this SQL database engine as beautiful, simple, and embeddable. Even though Ivey was working on a Perl project at the time he notes that "There's a Java binding wih JDBC."
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Intro to JavaServer Faces: In this Intro to JavaServer Faces, Prithpal S. Bhoghill begins with a comparison of code written using JSP pages with the new JavaServer Faces code specified in JSR 127. The Object Computing piece provides an overview of the JavaServer Faces architecture and outlines the page lifecycle.
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