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What's Happening in Java Today

The Geronimo project: In his blog entry, Alex Rupp announces today's release of Apache Geronimo's 'State of the Project'. Geronimo is an endeavor to create a J2EE compatible container. It is still early days for the project and it lives as part of the Apache incubator project. You can see where the project is headed by taking a look at the Geronimo site alpha version. » Read more
(September 5, 2003 6:00AM PT)

Feature Stories

		Extreme Teaching: Introducing Objects: Teachers of object-oriented programming can use the Fit framework to create an executable spec for an assignment. Just as customer written acceptance tests help professional developers understand requirements, Instructor written acceptance tests can lead students through their labs and assignments. » Read more (Aug 28, 2003)

		Custom Layouts: Learn how to take control of your own layout manager to get more control over the appearance of your layout. » Read more (Aug 14, 2003)

Also Today

Java.net Community: Java Games Daily News: The various java.net communities are beginning to add features to their home pages. Check out the Java Games Community home page for their daily news feed. The community is featuring the latest in relevant gaming news with recent stories about the MadTap mobile game portal, Danger Inc.'s Java License agreement, and two stories on the NVidia PS3 rumor.
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Conversation with Jonathan Schwartz: Steve Gillmor recently published Part One and Part Two of his JavaOne conversation with Jonathan Schwartz, chief of Sun Software. Most of the discussion is business focused but point to future focal points for the technology.
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