SQLExplorer - Eclipse Plug-in

It's 2005 and you're using Eclipse. Should you still be creating your database tables and seeding them with data by hand, from an SQL command-line utility? Deepak Vohra introduces the SQLExplorer plugin for Eclipse, which allows you to put a GUI on your development-time database access.

Sounds great, I'm definitely gonna check it out! The only thing that's missing is Derby/Cloudscape support!

Mobile Web Service Clients

If Web services are expanding within your enterprise, it might be time for you to look at all those mobile devices as potential clients of your Web services. Learn how to use the J2ME Web Service APIs to extend the enterprise to include J2ME devices with a simple example application.

rating comment: Nice article, which shows how to use the J2ME Web Services Specification (JSR-172), using a simple example. Unfortunately I think there is no cell phone available right now, which implements this specification.

ASF Harmony - Java open source

Apache have proposed a new project "Harmony" to create an open source J2SE implementation...

I don't know, on the one hand I think it's quite cool to have an open source J2SE implementation and get involved in developing Java. On the other hand I'm not sure if there is a need to have a second J2SE implementation. Anyway, I'm quite curious about Harmony, we'll see about it...

Star Office 8 Beta download

Star Office 8 Beta was release a couple of month ago. Unfortunately beta test was closed last month and the Star Office 8 beta download is offline.
Since then I received a couple of emails, asking me for links and downloads. For all of you who are looking for the Star Office 8 beta, I uploaded it to my torrent tracker and with a lot of patience you can get it there! Unfortunately it's only the windows version...

Google Web Accelerator

Google will das Web beschleunigen und so helfen, Zeit zu sparen. Dazu nutzt Google sein globales Computernetzwerk, das zu einem Proxy-Server mutiert und über ein spezielles Browser-Plugin genutzt werden kann. Es geht aber nicht nur um ein Zwischenspeichern der Seiten, die Software soll deutlich mehr leisten.

Auch wenn ich Google nichts unterstellen möchte, aber der Web Accelerator scheint mir doch eine geniale Möglichkeit zu sein personenbezogene Daten zu sammeln - für was auch immer.

Spring WebFlow

Spring WebFlow is a new Web framework that brings an innovative and highly structured approach to building Web applications. Get a sneak peek of the features in this next-generation Spring offering.

rating comment: This article provides a very brief overview of the new Spring WebFlow framework.

Azureus 2.3.0

In der Version 2.3.0 wartet der BitTorent-Client Azureus mit einer verteilten, dezentralisierten Datenbank auf, so dass auch Torrents ohne Tracker ("Trackerless Torrents") unterstützt werden. Darüber hinaus wartet Azureus 2.3.0 aber mit zahlreichen weiteren neuen Funktionen auf.

Dezentralisierte Datenbank - hört sich wichtig an!