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SomnifugiJMS for User Interfaces and Simple-Enough APIs: David Walend presents a way of containing the complexity of user interface Threads within Somnifugi JMS, and contemplates why some APIs become widely adopted while others are abandoned.  — David Walend

The two opposing forces of software: why career programmers will always have a job.: Joshua thinks there will always be work for career programmers as long as they move up the abstraction food-chain. — Joshua Marinacci

Java Web services for various client types
Web page designers are used to testing their pages with a variety of browsers to make sure that their design meets the demands of a large client base. In Java Web services for various client types, Avinash Gokli advises authors of Web services to consider "different types of clients, such as Java, .Net, and browsers; specific SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) implementations, such as Apache Axis and Microsoft's .Net WSE (Web Services Enhancements); interoperability issues between .Net and Axis SOAP implementations; conveying SOAP Faults to the client; [and] Java-based Web services integration with a framework like Apache Struts; support for a flexible configuration mechanism based on XML documents and usage of Java-XML bindings".

An XQuery Update
The XQuery/XSLT working group's latest draft introduces some interesting changes to the spec. In An XQuery Update, Per Bothner highlights some of the changes. These include the implementation of many of the previously excluded axes now optional and "new computed constructors for processing instructions, comments, and spaces". Also, "Each declaration in the module prolog must now be followed by a semicolon. Default namespace declarations now require the keyword declare, in addition to default, to be consistent with other declarations."