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The Great Cellcam Debate: What features would you like to see in cell phone+camera devices in 2004? — Bill Day

Top on my javac wishlist: If only I had a jpp like cpp, I would be happy. — M. Ranganathan

Does an object exist if you can't test its identity?
Vladamir Roubtsov shows that interned Strings can be garbage collected in his JavaWorld Q&A item Does an object exist if you can't test its identity?. He then goes on to show "how equal String literals do not always correspond to the same String instance in a program. " It's an interesting look inside the JVM.

Updating XQuery
Jason Hunter takes a look at recent changes in his Oracle Technical Network article Updating XQuery . In a sidebar at the end Jason writes about " a proposal from Oracle and IBM to create a common API for XQuery/Java interaction. As JDBC is for SQL, so this API will be for XQuery. The proposal was made to Sun's Java Community Process (JCP) and accepted as JSR-225, titled "XQuery API for Java (XQJ)." The API is likely to live in the javax.xml.xquery package."