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Java News |
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(Until Jan 3, 2001) |
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What Happened to Jini? |
"If you would have believed in Jini when it came out, then by now all the devices would be Jini enabled!". Hear why Joerg Bertholdt, Product Line Manager at WindRiver Systems, is skeptical about the adoption of Jini by the embedded systems market. I'm skepital too, by the way. If you want to know why, drop me a note J. |
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ebXML versus Microsoft Biztalk |
Talking about using Java and XML for B2B transactions, here is a feature article comparing two of the most prominent standards in this area: ebXML and Microsoft’s Biztalk. ebXML is a comprehensive message exchange architecture that can use various transport protocols for interconnecting business systems. Biztalk’s main strength is that it builds on SOAP, the Simple Object Access Protocol. |
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http://www.java.sun.com/pr/2000/12/pr001204-01.html |
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Tomcat 3.2 available |
The final release of the Tomcat servlet engine is available. It’s really a powerful environment for running servlets and JSPs. Tomcat can be integrated with leading web server products (Apache, IIS, etc.), and can be even embedded into your Java applications. So if you need to add HTTP server functions to your application, Tomcat might be the right choice for you. |
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Internet Access in Airplanes |
Do you also get that nervous feeling on a flight, trying to image all the complex technology that has been thrown together to prevent your plane from falling down to earth? Wait, it’s getting even more exciting now! With a solution steeped in Java technology, Tenzing Communications, Inc., and Air Canada, are poised to take Internet access to the sky and beyond. Good luck to all of us! |
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Java Web Start Release Candidate |
We talked about Java Web Start (JWS) in the last issue of Java News. JWS - a new application-deployment technology - gives you the power to launch full-featured applications with a single click from your Web browser or directly from the desktop. JWS allows you to deploy applications to thousands of users, by placing them on a central web server. For that you won't need to provide your applications as Applets. JWS mainly consists of a tiny "desktop" application. There you will find an icon for each Java application available on a web server. When you click on an application's icon, the JWS desktop connects to the web server, and also checks whether a copy of the application is cached at the client. (The JWS desktop application, and not the Web browser, implements caching of applications). If the application is not cached, then it is fully downloaded from the server. If the application is cached, but has an older version than the application on the Web server, then an update is downloaded and applied to the cache. Finally, the application is launched. The whole process won't require users to install any JVM nor to fiddle around with the CLASSPATH. |
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http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-11-2000/jw-1122-csharp1.html |
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A Cool Device |
Nokia announces the 9210, a Communicator device running the Symbian operating system. The 9210 will become available in the second quarter of 2001 and will provide a PersonalJava execution environment, as well as an implementation of the Java Telephony API (JTAPI). |
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New EJB-to-ActiveX Bridge |
The J2EEtm Client Access Service (J2EEtm CAS) allows native Windows applications to access entity Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) components using the ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) API. So if your Microsoft .NET application needs to access an EJB, CAS will provide a bridge between the two worlds. |
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And the Winner Is … |
Sorry, I just couldn’t resist telling you the good news that the "Symbian Best Java Application Award 2000" goes to Softwired’s wireless messaging middleware product! It’s the first implementation of the Java Message Service (JMS) API for mobile devices. On the same date, Symbian releases the Symbian "Quartz" SDK for Java. It’s worth having a look at the "Quartz" emulator! |