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Posted by daniel on October 18, 2004 at 10:59 AM EDT

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Many communities on java.net would welcome your help. If you would like to help lead a community, let us know, In particular, in today's Weblogs, Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart asks if you Want to help lead the WS and XML Community at java.net. He welcomes new members to the community leadership and asks if you might be interested in helping out. He particularly reaches out for non-Sun employees who may be interested.

Do you care what your PC looks like? John Reynolds says that they are boring and blogs Fashion and Function... why not. He writes "except for speed and minor window dressing the computer on my desk is virtually identical to the one that I was using 10 years ago. Is this design really optimal, or did we just settle?"

In Also in Java Today Paul Ford has been writing a series about "Hacking Congress" in which he is creating a Semantic Web of the three branches of the US government. In Stuck in the Senate he refines the RDF for members of the Senate and considers how you appropriately handle someone who may have different roles and positions in their career and how you deal with different people who share the same name.

Benoit Aumars considers a hypothetical coordination challenge in XML Messaging Using JBoss, a networked producer/consumer scenario requiring scheduled pulls from two different databases that are then communicated to the rest of the system with Java Messaging Service (JMS). He brings open-source tools to the task - JBoss, Quartz, Castor, and Hibernate - and shows how Java Management Extension (JMX) MBeans provided by these tools makes coordinating them practical.

In Projects and Communities , the JSR community notes that JSR 229: Payment API public review draft is available. The JSR covers "enabling application developers to initiate mobile payment transactions in J2ME applications."

The JavaDesktop community's Attune project provides a music player that "will learn the musical tastes of the user by monitoring input and play songs that the user likes most."

Do we need a new property keyword? In today's Forums, EKeeton writes "I suppose in your suggestion the compiler could supply default getters and setters, similar to a default constructor. So when you wrote:public property int size;you would get (invisibly) something like:private int size;public int getSize() { return size;}public void setSize(int size) { this.size = size;}"

MGrev suggests "Since there are no way of defining the relative ordering of the listeners in Swing (the order is "undefined") it is hard to "snatch" events from a component that you can't, or don't want to, subclass. You might also want to be able to "pick up" events that haven't been caught (consumed) by a component and thus would like to register yourself last in the listener list chain."

What about an === operator? Laura Piersol writes "Add === operator that maps for primitives to == and maps for classes to:(a == b || (a != null && a.equals(b)) Would make code much cleaner and clearer without changing JVM or having compatibility issues."

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