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Posted by daniel on March 24, 2005 at 11:49 AM EST

Plans for JDIC

In today's Weblogs , George Zhang reports on Where's JDIC Going? He takes a look at the state of the Java Desktop Integration Components. " JDIC has been under active discussion and development since its debut at JavaOne 2004. With the latest milestone release 0.9, a couple of new features and APIs are introduced. Check out what's new in 0.9 and an overall status update of the project."

Rich Unger writes a post that could raise eyebrows on both sides of the IDE/Platform divide. In Two Rich Client Platforms Are Better Than One. "In certain circles, raising the NetBeans vs. Eclipse question is much like discussing the relative merits of vi and emacs. They both pretty much do the same thing (though there are people on both sides who vehemently deny this). They both do a pretty good job. And, there are folks on both sides who think the other product is architected completely wrong. So how do you wade through the propaganda and choose the platform that's right for your application?"

John Bobowicz asks Is binary XML an oxymoron? " Is the Fast Infoset Project really just a temporary fix, or have we found the right approach for solving XML performance problems and don't realize it yet?"

In Also in Java Today , Caroline Maynard, Graham Charters, and Matthew Peters have writeen about how to Access an enterprise application from a PHP script. "You may be a PHP programmer who needs to write code for a departmental Web application to access a central corporate service, exposed as a Web service. Or you may be an experienced J2EE developer who wants to know a little more about PHP and how you can use it. The example in this article [..] is on how to consume the Web service from PHP, and it's applicable however the Web service is implemented.

In part two of Bob DuCharme's Getting Started with XQuery you'll "learn more about how a query can manipulate the XML that it pulls out of a collection, and how user-defined functions can provide even greater flexibility in the sorting and arrangement of that data."

Is the 2D pipeline improved? In today's Forums, pdoubleya writes "I just downloaded the latest snapshot java version "1.6.0-ea" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.6.0-ea-b28)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.6.0-ea-b28, mixed mode, sharing) and have tried running our Flying Saucer with it (http://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net). [..] For our tool, there is a slight regression in performance, 25-30%."

Thulin spawns a thread by asking whether "It would be nice to have javax.spell Spell checking. RI could use ThunderBird language modules."

In Projects and Communities, Peter Kessler and Ross Knippel answered your questions on Squeezing Performance from the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine . Read the transcript and post to the linked forum.

Brian Leonard has posted a demo of using NetBeans for Launching the eBay Java SDK API Calls. This project is built around the API Calls Demo posted at ebay.

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