Sockets and Airplanes: The Peer-to-Peer Sockets Project has a vision of "returning the end-to-end principle to the Internet. The vision includes a P2P DNS server known as DisDNS which their wiki page describes as "a distributed, secure, human-friendly Domain Name System." » Read more

Building software that matters: Industry gurus claiming that technology no longer matters to Corporate America may be drawing the wrong conclusion from the wrong evidence. — Philip Brittan

Is the Future Going to Happen Somewhere Else?: Am I worried that software engineering here in Silicon Valley is going to go the way of the Sardine Canneries down in Monterey? Yes I am. — Hans Muller

Add XML parsing to your J2ME applications
Parsing XML in an application is common - but what if your application is running on a phone? In Add XML parsing to your J2ME applications , Soma Ghosh uses "the kXML package to write an application for the MIDP profile that can parse an XML document." Ghosh ends this developerWorks article by noting that " Designing J2ME applications with embedded parsers can be a challenge because of the resource constraints inherent in J2ME devices. However, with the gradual availability of compact parsers suited to the MIDP platform, XML parsing will soon will be a widely used feature of the Java platform on mobile devices."

The Generic Connection Framework
The need for providing connections and performing I/O in limited devices is often provided by The Generic Connection Framework. In this WIreless article, C. Enrique Ortiz describes the GCF API and shows how to use it. " To create a connection you use the Connector factory class and a URL. To close it, you use the created Connection subtype object. Using a connection can be easy or more involved, depending on the connection type, because each connection type has its own peculiarities."