John R. Collins' Radio WeblogA little place in blog space for Java programmers interested in Java user interfaces, web programming, databases, and networking, to learn the latest things.(Untitled)- July 9, 2003 Struts 1.1 went final in early July 2003. Reportedly the combination of Struts 1.1 and JDK 1.4.2 is very fast. Early July 2003 was a banner week for Java software community. Quite a lot of software as been upgraded in the wake of JavaOne this summer. Java has gone from very good, to great, to wow! There has been a steady surge in Netscape and Mozilla browsers the last two quarters too. And over the last week or so there is a new version of each of them out too. Netscape 7.1 and Mozilla...http://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/07/09.html#a87 (Untitled)- July 9, 2003 JDK 1.4.2 was released at the beginning of July 2003 by Sun with very little fanfare. Strange they have not hyped it more because it significantly improved performance and fixed some very serious sounding bugs. Apple Mac OS X is running JDK 1.4.1 at the moment. I heard that many of the fixes in JDK 1.4.2 actually came from Apple's JDK 1.4.1. JDK 1.4 series looks like it will be a really nice platform to do development on. All the XML and XSLT goodies are built in. They have done a lot of..http://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/07/09.html#a86 (Untitled)- July 9, 2003 Eclipse 2.1.1 came out last week. It updates Eclipse 2.1 which came out in March of 2003. Eclipse is a very powerful Java IDE. Sun's NetBeans Java IDE has made great strides during the past year as well. Both these free Java IDEs are well worth checking out. I love the JBuilder IDE, which I have used since it came out in 1997. I find there are some things that each IDE can do that the other ones cannot. I am definitely a pluralist kind of guy when it comes to using whatever tool best...http://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/07/09.html#a85 (Untitled)- July 9, 2003 The Apache Forrest project documents Apache Java projects. Now there is a Netscape 7.x Mozilla toolbar for easily accessing documentation about the Apache Java projects.http://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/07/09.html#a84 (Untitled)- July 9, 2003 Everybody running Netscape 7.x or Mozilla will want to try out the new Googlebar. It is really powerful and easy to use. Quite the handy add-on toolbar for these incredibly powerful web browsers.http://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/07/09.html#a83 (Untitled)- July 9, 2003 NewsMonster 1.0 is now available. This build contains mostly bugfixes from the last release candidate as well as a few updates to the online profile including an integrated blogroll and reputation "meters." An example is available. The goal of this release is to stabilize our current feature set while allowing us to move forward. Work is underway to have NewsMonster 1.1 available in the next two weeks. This build will focus on: - OSX availability - Enhanced reputation support (better...http://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/07/09.html#a82 |