Java: Near to the Barking SealsJava development, J2EE, IDEs, XML, SOAP, toolsEclipse RC1 Good to Go- February 26, 2003 The recently-released Eclipse 2.1 Release Candidate 1 Java IDE appears good to go. I haven't noticed any new features beyond the M5 release, but everything seems to be working just fine.I have tried RC1 with the Tomcat, Color Editor and Perforce plugins with no problems. Checking out CVS and Perforce projects as Java projects solved previous problems with project natures. Everything just worked.All in all, I'm looking forward to the full 2.1 release.http://www.jroller.com/ericfj/entry/eclipse_rc1_good_to_go Scripting From Java- February 17, 2003 Scripting has been popular on Unix, Linux and Windows, allowing developers to write short files of commands to automate common tasks. With object-oriented scripting languages such as Python, the distinction between scripting and programming has blurred. For example, the Red Hat Linux installation program is written in Python. There are quite a few uses for scripting, as described in the paper on Scripting for the 21st Century.Most scripting languages...http://www.jroller.com/ericfj/entry/scripting_from_java |