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More than a dream

Posted by daniel on January 17, 2005 at 3:55 PM EST

The need for a more representative sample

Yolanda King, daughter of the man we are remembering today in the U.S., said "my father made more than one speech." Martin Luther King, Jr. is often remembered here for his I have a dream speech. As memorable, as finely crafted, and as well-delivered that speech was, King went on to deliver powerful speeches in the subsequent five years. Many of them, although they were delivered nearly forty years ago, could be applied to the current U.S. economic and political situation. We remember people and events by taking a sample which may not be representative.

In honor of the holiday today, I tried to get editor Chris Adamson to rename his piece on Streaming media "I have a Stream". In Also in Java Today , Java applications often fail to take advantage of available media helper libraries. QuickTime for Java provides an object-oriented wrapper around the native QuickTime library on Mac and Windows. The article Streaming QuickTime with Java shows you how to use Java to set up a streaming media server, supporting any of the various QuickTime codecs, including MPEG-4, Sorenson Video 3, H. 263, and more. If you're interested in Java Media, watch for O'Reilly's upcoming book QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook.

If you are looking to get Started with Java Management Extensions (JMX), Qusay Mahmoud "provides a fast track technical tutorial to JMX. It discusses JMX and its tiered architecture, the JMX programming model, and code demonstrating how to use JMX to develop management applications. In addition, the article shows how to use a JMX-compliant management tool in the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 (J2SE 5.0), which has implemented version 1.2 of the JMX specification."

N. Alex Rupp points out "One aspect of the web that Java doesn't really seem to intersect with is virus and spyware combat." in today's Weblogs . In his post Beating Back The Spyrus Blooms he writes "it's one of our lesser-toted privileges. Nevertheless, it's what I do with the majority of my waking life this winter. Combatting spyrus blooms, IRC botnets, scraping barnacles off of the hulls of old XP machines, and training an army of electromechanical crime fighters who can peel spyruses out of a machine faster than any antivirus software can."

Jonathan Simon points to A death march to the tune of 1/2 billion dollars and US national security"We've been at this software game for some time now. We should be able to get it right by now. But we don't. Even when its major taxpayer money and national security at stake."

Is AOP - a poor man's excuse for writing ugly code? Kirill Grouchnikov writes " I've been reading quite a handful of materials about AOP and i have come to this quite disenchanting conclusion: it encourages bad programming practices that should be avoided at any cost."

RegExGuy has more to say about System.equals(a,b) in today's Forums. "After all the discussions about equals here, I can't remember if this suggestion percolated to the top...I think there should be a System.equals() that is a symmetric operation. (Rather than everyone coding a utility class to do this) It should know about subclasses, and call the subclass' equals(), or if there is no super/sub class relationship it should return a.equals(b) && b.equals(a)."

In Projects and Communities, Getting started with JMX? The JavaPedia page on Java Management Extensions includes links to various pieces of the JMX API as well as articles and open source projects that take advantage of JMX.

Want to work with the new Fast Infoset project or the new implementations of JAX-RPC and JAXB 2.0? There are Summer intern positions available to work on these projects.

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