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The Death of a Titan: I worked once for a gargantuan international IT corporation, and I remember the day it all came crashing to the ground and took my dreams with it. Here are some thoughts about what happened and how I've managed to put the pieces back together. — N. Alex Rupp

JXTA TownHall agenda: Keeping it Real - The Agenda — James Todd

XML made easy with XMLBeans
When BEA has now open sourced their XML Beans technology and XML made easy with XMLBeans gives you a good first look. Laurence Moroney writes "The point of XMLBeans is to give you a toolkit that allows you to quickly build applications that can efficiently manipulate XML data." He provides a sample schema and then uses it to create and read data in XML documents.

The Atom API
Mark Pilgrim writes about the Atom API " an up-and-coming format for editing, syndicating, and archiving weblogs and other episodic web sites." In The Atom API , Mark looks at the earlier efforts of LiveJournal, Blogger, and MetaWeblog and makes the case for the need for a new approach. In the second half of the article he outlines the features of the still evolving Atom and points to resources and early implementations.