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Cat solves difficult EJB problem Mar 31, 1999 This cat may be smarter than you think. The cat known as "RedCat," solved a somewhat thorny Enterprise Java Beans problem - that of linking a series of mainframe applications with Sun Java Web server across network boundaries. "RedCat has a fairly complex language" explained the cat's owner, whose name happens to be Richard Katz. "At first I just thought he had two words: 'Meh' which means food and 'Mur' which means water." But then, according to Katz, an amazing thing happenned. "I noticed that Red Cat would say 'Meh' to indicate all sorts of human interaction needs. "I finally figured out that 'Meh' actually refers to a highly abstract class that implements a dynamic interface that could be used to connect many disparate kinds of servers - not just human cat servers," he said.. "In fact, a careful analysis of 'Meh' in fact reveals a way for Sun to complete the EJB Spec in a matter of several weeks instead of two years." This, according to Red Cat, may be the next follow-on to Jini technology. Red Cat is planning to forward his solution to Sun Microsystems in May after he finishes writing his book on enterprise Java applications and human manipulation. The book is entitled 'Meh.' The cat has other apparantly odd quirks such as it's ability to camoflag itself, or shape shift. Shown in this photograph, Red Cat mezmerizes us into thinking he is a Koala. |
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| World to run out of Zeros: Much ado about nothing? Mar 31, 1999 By the year 2003, the world will run out of zeros, according to predictions by Arther Ziltch of the Gardinier Group. According to Ziltch, beginning in January of next year, the world will begin to use zeros at a much faster rate than it has for the last thousand years. "On checks, calendars, you name it" he said. "And it will affect international trade as well.". Conversion to the European Common Market currency, the Euro, requires six decimals to the right of the decimal. "And what will most of them be? Zeros! "It's going to be a big problem" says Ziltch, "because when zeros run out, all computers will have left are ones." "Subroutines written in C/C++ and Java won't be able to return void any more" he continued. Serious zero shortfalls are expected in late 2,002 and will continue for nearly a decade. |
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| New Math: Java +Commerce: former HP, Novell Exec
makes good on Encanto promise Mar 21, 1999 Encanto, headed by
Robert J. Frankenberg, unveiled the first complete E-Commerce Server written entirely in Java, at CeBITS. Encanto
unveiled e.go, a complete server for small to medium sized businesses. The e.go Commerce web server comes with a store-front builder, product catalog, and a payment setup wizard that lead the user through the process of setting up the web site for secure credit card transactions. The e.go server can also connect through Encanto's web service. E.go Commerce sells for around $1,300 fulfilling a promise Mr. Frankenberg made eight months ago to deliver a server for well less than $2,000.. Mr. Frankenberg who grew up with and eventually led Hewlett Packard's PC division, also served for 2 years as president and CEO of Novell. |
From Encanto: From Java Industry Connection: CeBIT - Java-Based E-Commerce Server Intro'd by Steve Gold, Newsbytes, Mar 18 From Mercury Center: Ex-Novell chief exec takes helm of start-up by Mike Langberg, July 1998 |
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April is the coolist month... Mar 16, 1999 to slightly misquote T. S. Eliot. Some time ago, in a place not so far
away, back when there was something called papier and magazines were kept in big buildings called libries
there was a friendly (if print) magazine This magazine generally made it's impression on us by telling us about
the future. A day "not unlike" Purim But on the 1st of every April, the little magazine ran a special set of articles designed to trick us into thinking about the future in some new way that we never thought about it before -- like a watch face that read "Insert Disk". The magazine grew and grew until it captured much of the ad revenue there was to capture. Not so long ago, it mysteriously disappeared.... Now it's back. |
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| Sun to lead XML API Mar
15, 1999 Sun has outlined plans to standardize an XML API extension library for Java. These plans will extensively use the new community process (that which enables you to download the Java 2 source) according to Sun. Sun will also include XML interface in the next release of EJB. The plans are outlined in a java.sun.com feature article by Jon Byous. |
From C/Net: Sun spec to link XML, Java. by Wylie Wong From Sun |
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| The XML Servlet Mar
14, 1999 On JavaPro, Claude Duguay explains how you can take advantage of XML filtering. He integrates an the IBM alphaWorks XML parser into a servlet. AlphaWorks additionally has an XML enabler servlet you can try out. |
From April 99 JavaPro Filtering with Servlets by Claude Duguay From alphaWorks: See also: Java Skyline Tools and XML resources below for additional information. |
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Net Dynamics 5: Sun bets heavy on dot Com Mar 11, 1999 San Francisco: What the world needs now is "dot world" - at least, according to Sun Microsystems. Sun executives deliniating computing into three "dot" levels they call
Sun is both serious about portals as concept and serious about NetDynamics as a product. NetDynamics is no "reference server" as Sun JWS is for the Servlet API. No, ND is clearly a product and a business system. With NetDynamics, Sun is not out to prove what can be done with Java - it's out to capture market share in the highly competitive Java server world. NetDynamics is a very good product, very competitive in a world that includes some other very good products. Especially impressive are NetDynamics' RAD and connectivity abilities, especially the interface to Microsoft's DCOM (yes, it really does do this). As Sun demonstrated, ND enables the developer to pick and choose DCOM methods and properties - something for which developers have usually had to rely on RTFM (=Read The __ Manual). Also highly impressive is NetDynamics performance and scalability. At the meeting, Sun demonstrated how it was possible to scale NetDynamics to a 64 processor system that could handle a billion transactions a day. But Sun's NetDynamics strategy also raises a big question for Enterprise Java Beans: Who defines EJB? Obviously not NetDynamics which implements only Session Beans. And Sun executives hedged on pushing ND beyond the EJB 1.0 (December 1997) Spec - instead favoring reaping high performance and superior connectivity both of which NetDynamics supplies in spades. This leaves EJB as a standard with no reference server. Unlike Servlet API, EJB must make it's own way and Net Dynamics will "follow suit" rather than lead. Additional EJB capabilities in NetDynamics, according to Sun, will wait for the October 1999 updated release of EJB. From Sun: Sun Launches the NetDynamics 5 Application Server as the linchpin for the new Portal Computing Model, Mar 10. |
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| SilverStream and Iona: Mar
9, 1999 More marraiges: It must be a trend. This last month of Java Skyline reads like the society page of the Times-Picayune than Tech Heads. Iona, having just consolodated EJB Home only two weeks ago, has now allied itself again, this time with SilverStream, a leading high-end Java Server. Iona Orbix will be included in the 3.0 version of SilverStream, due later this year. |
From InfoWorld: SilverStream teams
with Iona for app server synergy by Dana Gardner, Mar 8 From Internet Week:SilverStream Adds Transactional Support Via Iona by Ellis Booker, Mar 8. From PC Week:Java flows from SilverStream by Antone Gonsalves, Mar 8. |
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| Sun: NetDynamics 5.0: Mar
8, 1999 Sun plans to present NetDynamics 5.0 on Wednesday March 10th. Recent press articles report that the new version supports supports session (but not enterprise) beans, provides an interface to Microsoft COM. No confirmation is currently available on Sun's NetDynamics website. However, NetDynamics itself had been working on a COM interface with Microsoft for over a year now... |
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| Tek-Tools: Kawa IDE 3.21 update Mar
8, 1999 Tec-Tools latest IDE, Kawa 3.21, comes with a tutorial for running and debugging servlets. Kawa provides project management and class browsing capabilities, operates with both JDK 1.1.x and 1.2 and the JSDK and comes with a plug-in API. Tec-Tools also makes JForge, a GUI applet interface. |
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| Sun and 15 majors launch OSGI
Mar 7, 1999 Java Embedded Server stands to gain from a new set of standards to be developed for information delivery to home and small businesses based on the Open Service Gateway Initiative(OSGI). The new standards will allow companies to administer and upgrade servers that have already been deployed in remote locations. The OSGI 1.0, expected late this year, will rely on Jini connection technology. An early-access version of Embedded Server that supports Jini will be is expected to be available for Java One, June 15th, 1999. |
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| New VolanoMark ratings on server-side JVMs:
But who really won? Mar 2, 1999 The benchmark results are in. And the winner is...IBM?...no Novell! ...nope... Windows! ...Uh-uh... oops- no...it's Sun, er, that is...I don't think even the author is quite sure. (Be sure to read all the way through the report before you decide). But the good news is scores are a whopping 36% to 66% better than they were just 6 months ago - the clear winner is Server-side Java. JavaWorld also provides this report on the state of Java, including a much needed glossary... And if you like glossaries, be sure to take a look this one from Roedy Green. |
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From Canadian Mind Products: Java Glossary by Roedy Green |
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| Reuters America to use Inprise server Mar 1, 1999 Reuters America has selected the Inprise Applications Server to automate its customer service processing, based on a successful pilot project according to Inpris. Reuters is the worlds largest single news agency. |
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