Summit Report: Another year has come and gone and I still haven't been to the Colorado Software Summit. Last week's show conflicted with OOPSLA, The O'Reilly Mac OS X Con, and even Microsoft's PDC. » Read more

Confusion between grid and utility computing: Widespread adoption still depends on the computer industry getting its definitions straight and clearing up the lingering customer confusion about these two related--but separate--concepts. — Philip Brittan

Orchestration, Choreography, Collaboration and Java Technology-based Business Integration: some of the latest Web Services "specs" are about Orchestration, Choreography, Collaboration ... Here I am going to give a brief synopsis and pointers for more information on this topic. — Carol McDonald

Heap Roots
Java applications can leak memory and tracking the leaks can be frustrating. Heap Roots has been posted to the IBM alphaWorks site. "HeapRoots is a tool for debugging memory leaks in JavaTM applications through analysis of 'heap dumps.' [... The Heap Roots ] commands run algorithms on the data or query for information about the data. HeapRoots provides a command-line interactive interface where one enters commands and gets results."

Utilize the Database Schema Browser
Saurabh Singh presents code for a servlet that "uses Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) APIs DatabaseMetaData andResultSet to fetch information from a database and display it to users" in his JavaWorld article Utilize the Database Schema Browser. "This simple servlet provides users with customizable options to retrieve a listing of all tables in a schema, tables matching a certain criteria (e.g., only tables that start with TBL), and all tables of a specific schema. You can also get a listing of all views."