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 Editor's Daily BlogSeeking grand challengesPosted by daniel on October 07, 2003 at 03:52 AM | Comments (3)How do you go about finding a grand challenge? The problem has to be worth solving and, to be grand, should require significant effort with a hope of being solved. Today in Projects and Communities, the Java Patterns community links to an article on The Grand Challenges for computer science .The actual criteria for a Grand Challenge are that it "be a 15-year project with international participation. There should be a clear evaluation of success or failure, and it should offer fundamental and radical advances in basic science or engineering."A UK expert panel is kicking off seven projects with the hopes that one or more of them will be able to graduate to the Grand Challenge level. One project looks to organize the mountain of digital data that you will accumulate throughout your life. Another project concerns Global ubiquitous computing based on the idea that "Within 20 years computers will be ubiquitous and globally connected." The article ends by citing previous grand challenges:
We also point to JGoodies , our project spotlight for the week. Follow the links to check out the freely downloadable look and feels available from JGoodies . Screenshots are available from the "look" subproject. In his Weblog entry today Simon Brown praises HttpClient - another great Jakarta Commons component. Rather than implementing HTTP POSTs himself, Simon recently discovered how easy it is to use the Jakarta Commons David Walend continues the thread that includes arguments on both sides of the exception issue. In Design for Exceptions David writes
David also refers to Felipe Leme's latest blog entry It's time to move on. Felipe notes that even if Tiger (J2SE 1.5) were released today, it's going to take a long time before we see adoption in major applications. He point out that J2SE 1.4 is in its third version and despite how long it has been around, there are plenty of applications that still use 1.3. He predicts that "with Tiger and its language changes, this situation can be even worse, as the IDEs have to adapt themselves to these changes." In Also in Java Today popular culture makes its way into tech writing with Larry O'Brien's Java Eye for the .NET Guy . Larry's article is in a series on Windows and .NET and reminds the community that there is plenty that the .NET programmers can learn from the experience of Java developers. Get past the opening paragraph and comments such as "Of course, there are those who’ve accused .NET of being a rip-off of Java from the start" and you will get to the Java-friendly parts. After several observations about technical areas, O'Brien says the following about community
Qualities of a Good Middle-Tier Architecture is Satya Komatineni's most recent ONJava article. In it he writes
Satya then goes on to describe the attributes he looks for in the middle tier including his list of the big easy's: easy to call, easy to discover, easy to monitor the response, and easy to create a new component. In today's java.net News Headlines :
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