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Weblogs by Daniel H. Steinberg from Java.net

Trackbacks and referrers - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Sarah and Tony, the magic elves in the back room, keep adding functionality to java.net. When we launched with blogs some of the bloggers asked "why don't you ...". Two of the requests were for trackbacks and for referrer logs.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/404

Phoning home - (Found July 2, 2008 )

RMI is part of the J2SE stack. As more power becomes available on "limited devices" you may find J2SE running on devices that were once targets for J2ME. In the meantime, there have been several ideas on how to bring RMI to a phone near you.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/470

Got Installers - (Found July 2, 2008 )

After you finish writing your Java desktop application and QA it and polish it up - how do you deploy it In some ways that depends on your audience. If you are targeting fellow geeks then maybe a jar file or a directory with an Ant build.xml file is enough.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/472

What's Wrong - (Found July 2, 2008 )

The debate on handling exceptions and dealing with potential errors continues. You may remember this from James Gosling's July blog entry Flying at Mach 1 "If you want to build something really robust, you need to pay attention to things that can go wrong and most folks don't in the C world because it's just to damn hard."
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/476

Writing it down - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Is documentation part of a class's spec What belongs in the code and what belongs in the docs
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/478

Accessing Data - (Found July 2, 2008 )

The shift to OO was supposed to, in part, place the functionality in the same place as the data it acted on. You would make requests of an object instead of operating directly on the data.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/480

Browsing Web Services - (Found July 2, 2008 )

A friend emailed that he had just seen the new java.net front page and wondered when we changed it. His daily interaction with java.net is through our RSS feed. This leads to wondering what might be the equivalent of an RSS newsreader that can be used to browse web services
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/524

Letters to the Editor - (Found July 2, 2008 )

One of the most enjoyable aspects of editing java.net is hearing suggestions from readers on how to improve our site.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/526

Tool time - (Found July 2, 2008 )

JavaCC, the Java Compiler Compiler, was open-sourced in June here on java.net. Their project has been one of the most popular over the last few months.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/530

Which way is up - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Internationalizing your application is not just a matter of translating the words and checking with a native speaker that there aren't nuances you may have missed. You should also think about organizing the components on the screen so the flow is more natural.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/533