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 Editor's Daily BlogForums join the frontpagePosted by daniel on April 27, 2004 at 05:17 AM | Comments (0)Now that recent Forum postings have been moved to the center column of the java.net home page, our latest site change is complete. Now that the big changes to our look and feel are done, let's take a quick tour of the java.net home page. Of course, things will change. We will roll new features out as soon as they are ready and not wait until some magic release date. You'll notice, for example, that we have just added a forums section to the front page to make it easier for you to follow the discussions. The center column of the java.net homepage is where you will find all of the items that are refreshed each weekday. For a quick look at the items of the day you can subscribe to a daily or weekly newsletter or to an RSS summary of the front page. Details on subscribing are always found at the end of this daily blog. Here is what you will currently find in the center column:
The right column is where you will find the items that remain on the site for about a week. This includes:
In the left column you will find links to people, pages, events, ...
While you are looking around the page, be sure to check out the top and bottom. The top of the page has been standardized across the site with easy navigation tabs on the top left and login on the top right. In Forums today, the Mythical Man Month discussion looks at Surgical Teams: Tools vs. People. Tackline writes "Almost certainly you will have programmers of different experiences/abilities. The technical buck has to stop with someone - the surgeon. [...] Keeping the administration split from technical areas is necessary for efficiency. Hopefully things don't get bureaucratic enough for secretaries, however you don't want to waste valuable human resources on trivial matters." In Java Audio, mattbolton asks is Sound recording and encoding difficult or imposible? Help him understand his "realistic choices with encoding sound in Java". In today's Weblogs , James Gosling stresses that you should also view Netbeans as a platform. He writes "One of the cooler aspects of netBeans is that it can be used as a platform for building applications, not just as an IDE. By this I mean that if you look under the hood at the implementation of netBeans, you'll find that, just like any other Java application". Joshua Marinacci has pulled some provocative quotes from a recent slashdot thread. Although he thinks it is undeserved, he asks Does Java have a bad reputation?
John O'Conner wonders what's in a name. He writes that he could never bring himself to buy a "for dummies" book because of the title and that he is similarly affected by the name "Groovy". In Groovy? Are you serious? he writes that there are a lot of good things about Groovy and the underlying concept but " Doesn't the name put you off just a little? Can serious professionals use something that sounds so silly?" Hmmm - maybe next week's poll question. In Also in Java Today, in the OTN's Monitor, Control, and Extend with JMX, Cameron O'Rourke introduces "a simple management component that can be monitored and controlled from any other program, including any JMX management console. The JMX MBean Server can instantiate any number of MBeans, so we can have several SiteMonitors running simultaneously. The fact that our component is exposed to the outside world and that it can be configured at runtime greatly increases its value. If an MBean is coded correctly, it can run continuously without ever having to be restarted." Richard Hightower shows you how to develop a transactional persistence layer using Hibernate and Spring in the developerWorks article Object-relation mapping without the container. "Hibernate is a leading OR mapping tool and Spring is an AOP framework and IOC container. Together, the two technologies allow developers to write code that is database-vendor agnostic, and that can run inside of a J2EE container or run standalone." In today's Projects and Communities , the Spiritbot project is an " irc based bot started from PIRC-bot and will focus on generating code using chat." Look at the conversation between a developer and the bot. The Java Desktop community has updated their Component Suites listings with Singleton Labs' MonarchCharts and MonarchGraph for data visualization. In today's java.net News Headlines :
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