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Posted by daniel on November 12, 2004 at 10:46 AM EST

Choose a shade of grey

You may spend your time in more than one area of Java, but we thought we would ask in our poll this week Are you primarily a J2ME, J2SE, or J2EE developer. Like all polls, we recognize that this one is flawed. You can't work in J2EE without also being a J2SE developer. If you are working on enterprise apps using only J2SE APIs, then what are you? Rather than shave this thinly and offer many different possible responses, we wanted to keep the options simple. What do you consider yourself to be. If you want to add your comments to explain your choice, please do so.

Alex Toussaint reports on new toys to play with in his blog Things to do. Services to use in today's Weblogs. He points, in particular, to the Amazon Simple Queue Service which is currently free but will probably carry a charge in the future.

Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart reports that JWSDP 1.5 is out. He writes "My favorite two additions are a brand-new implementation of StAX and a new, FCS, version of the XML Web Services Security."

Jonathan Simon passes on the news that Sun's MP3 Plugin released. In addition, the plugin "works with JMF as well as JavaSound. Apprently, this was blessed by Sun as they solved whatever legal issues were pressing."

In Also in Java Today , in a feature from webservices.xml.com, Bilal Siddiqui continues his long-running web services security series in Implementing XML Signatures in WSS4J. In this fifth installment, he discusses six WSS signature tokens and offers Java implementations of five of them.

You can download and play with a beta of the 3D environment Croquet and wander around and explore on your own. You can also take a quick trip through the new immersive environment with the, still in progress, Croquet Tutorial.

In Projects and Communities, the NetBeans Community home page has an announcement of a NetBeans IDE 4.1 Chat on SDN scheduled for Tuesday, November 16, featuring Senior Product Manager, Larry Baron, Technical Lead, Ludovic Champenois, and Engineering Manager, Petr Jiricka.

An item in a recent Gentoo Linux newsletter may be of interest to the java.net Linux Community: Gentoo's Java team has seen a significant upturn in bugs and feature requests and is putting out a call for experienced J2EE developers. Volunteers can contact Karl Trygve Kalleberg or the Gentoo recruiters team

A couple of suggestions for String in today's Forums SPetrucci suggests that we "Add a non static version of String.format(...) to the String class. That would allow to replace :int i=1; String s = String.format("%d", i); with :int i=1;String s = "%d".format(i);"

Monika_Krug writes that "The String.substring(int) method should permit negative indices. myString.substring(-3) should return the same as myString.substring(myString.length()-3) i.e. the last three characters. [..] With unnamed calculated Strings one has to assign the String to a temporary variable just to be able to get the last n characters."

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