Linux in Government: An Interview with Les Richardson, Author of Open
Schools are another source of insight on the state of OSS and government.

Understanding Network Class Loaders Class loaders
One of the cornerstones of Java dynamics, determine when and how classes can be added to a running Java environment. This article helps you learn about class loaders in general and network class loaders in particular...as well as the security issues that surround them.

Clients on The Server Side?

It looks like TSS has become more interested in the client.\ this week. First they link to one of three sites (mine was one) that has been commenting on rich web apps. Then there is a Swing MVC rehash for your enjoyment.

Opinion: Worries about "rich web applications"
There has been a lot of talk recently regarding rich internet applications, especially with products like Flex and Laszlo. Frank Carver has some worries. He opinines that although the browser isn't perfect, it has become the recent defacto standard. Often in UI design the "pure"best way doesn't win as people have been trained in another. What are your thoughts?

Java GUI Development: Reintroducing MVC
Finding the MVC in Swing can be difficult. Andrus Adamchik discusses how you can add a separate MVC layer on top of Swing, treating Swing components as a "view". Scriptable dynamic bindings are used inside this layer for declarative component assembly and communication between various related application parts.

[ 15 Nov ][ News ]: NetBeans 4.1 daily builds with J2EE support availa
Starting on November 14, 2004, NetBeans 4.1 daily builds will be published on netbeans.org.The following are the main changes since the NetBeans 4.1 Early Access 1 release:All fixes done for NetBeans 4.0 since the 4.0 beta2 build have been propagated to 4.1Support for entity beansSupport for message driven beansSupport for web services in EJB module projects(the new features may not be complete at this point)Note that to use the J2EE development features, you need to specify the location of your Sun Application Server (Platform Edition, 8.1 beta) installation. See Tools | J2EE Platform Manager in the main menu.Note also that the nbj2ee@netbeans.org mailing list was set uprecently as a user forum for discussing the J2EE development features. Feel free tosubscribe at http://www.netbeans.org/community/lists/top.html.

[ 15 Nov ][ News ]: NetBeans 4.1 daily builds with J2EE support availa
Starting on November 14, 2004, NetBeans 4.1 daily builds will be published on netbeans.org.The following are the main changes since the NetBeans 4.1 Early Access 1 release:All fixes done for NetBeans 4.0 since the 4.0 beta2 build have been propagated to 4.1Support for entity beansSupport for message driven beansSupport for web services in EJB module projects(the new features may not be complete at this point)Note that to use the J2EE development features, you need to specify the location of your Sun Application Server (Platform Edition, 8.1 beta) installation. See Tools | J2EE Platform Manager in the main menu.Note also that the nbj2ee@netbeans.org mailing list was set uprecently as a user forum for discussing the J2EE development features. Feel free tosubscribe at http://www.netbeans.org/community/lists/top.html.

SAP announces J2EE support with NetWeaver
SAP and Java together? This month SAP made the big announcement, that the NetWeaver technology platform will now offer support for the Java 2 Platform intrigued we waanted to know more.