Weather's here; wish you were great!
Seriously, this year is full of surprises...everything is
changing in the Java development environment. Check out Together
Technologies, for example - one terrific IDE based on UML...much
cleaner than Rational Rose! Anyway, Sun and Apache (and others)
are working very hard to combine the transaction, web, and client
tiers of development into a single IDE Sun is calling JavaServer
Faces and the underlying technologies clearly are SOAP, XML,
XSLT, JMS, EJB 2.0, JSP 1.2, Servlet 2.3, Tomcat 4.0, and J2SE
1.4 (in beta now), which is the underlying Java technologie of
J2EE. And something called Java ESI, but I can't find a
reference to it right now. Things are moving fast! And we will
have to keep on our toes.... The big surprise was the apparent
shift away from the MVC design pattern towards the use of JSP +
Servlet Filters (new in 2.3) in a modified design pattern based
on the so-called J2EE Blueprints (on the web at
java.sun.com/products/j2ee/blueprints) - Nic will love this!
Am busy as all hell - 8AM - 7PM everyday. Am taking lunch break
now...gotta go!
Cheers!
Mark
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