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October 20, 2003
Number of projects	509
Total Members	25,117

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October 23, 2003

Why we wiki: A wiki is a web site where every page is editable by anybody. It is a site that is easier for authors and harder for readers so what are wikis good for? » Read more

Projects & Communities

Java Communications
OpenIM: The Java Communications community home page leads with an announcement of the release from the java.net project OpenIM, "a java implementation of Jabber(tm)/XMPP instant messaging server." The blurb reports that up next is "OpenIM - Byte streaming, and then VoiceIP. A good feature server could allow near real time voice/video chat using OpenIM server. " »Read more

JXTA
JXTA Town Hall Meeting Nov. 6: The JXTA community has scheduled a JXTA Town Hall Meeting for November 6 in Santa Clara. In addition to meeting the JXTA engineers "Aubrey Jackson of the National Association of REALTORS(R) will talk about their use of JXTA technology." »Read more

Weblogs

Naked Objects Exposed: The Naked Object approach is primarily a design tool, and secondarily a GUI framework. — Greg Vaughn

Keeping it Real: Realtors, Las Vegas and JXTA: Elvis Lives! — James Todd

JDK 1.4.2_02 released: Yesterday was really a "release day". Not only JWSDP and JDeveloper had new releases, but also JDK 1.4.2. — Felipe Leme

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Exploring the Wiki
Ward Cunningham talks about the ideas behind wikis and what they are well suited for in an interview with Bill Venners. In Exploring the Wiki . Cunningham explains " In creating wiki, I wanted to stroke that story-telling nature in all of us. Second, and perhaps most important, I wanted people who wouldn't normally author to find it comfortable authoring, so that there stood a chance of us discovering the structure of what they had to say."

Technical Debt
Martin Fowler blogs about Technical Debt explaining that "doing things the quick and dirty way sets us up with a technical debt, which is similar to a financial debt." Feedback to his post includes the comment from Scott Wood that "Technical Inflation could be viewed as the ground lost when the current level of technology surpasses that of the foundation of your product to the extent that it begins losing compatibility with the industry."

Java News Headlines

• Lucene 1.3 RC2 Released	• Java Web Services Developer Pack 1.3

• EclipseCon 2004 - February in Anaheim	• Columba 1.0 email client M1

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Excerpt on Testing GUIs from "Unit Testing in Java"

Applying CSS styles to a Swing application

Project Spotlight »

Wurm Online: Massively Multiplayer OnLine Game in Java: The java.net Java Games community has submitted this week's project spotlight: Wurm Online . Chris Melissinos writes "Wurm Online will be a community-centric fantasy MMORPG fully developed in java.Gameplay will be free at first, but when you wish to develop your character beyond basic skills, you're going to have to pay a monthly fee." The technologies used include java.net projects jogl and joal as well as BeanShell and GAGETimer.

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SunNetwork EMEA
December 3-4, 2003
ICC Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Sun is pleased to announce that for the first time ever, the SunNetwork Conference and Pavilion is making its way to Europe.

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