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Site Update log Click here... Site Implementation This site is developed using JSP pages with common headers, footers and a menu JSP page from which all the pages are constructed. News Headlines (on the front page) implemented using JSTL Custom tags to retrieve an RSS XML newsfeed uses JSTL tags to transform the RSS feed into HTML using a JSTL XML tag and a simple XSL stylesheet. Guestbook page is implemented again using JSTL tags, to insert and retrieve data from a MySQL database uses JSTL tags to control the paging back and forth through the data rows Tech News Blog & Dev Hints and Tips pages is an open source project I host on SourceForge, called BBWeblog. implemented using Jakarta Struts the Action subclasses interact with a Data Access Object (DAO) to perform database access DAO uses Hibernate 3.0.x to retrieve data from a MySQL database running on the same server The site is running on Apache 2.0.54, JBoss 4.0.1 and Tomcat 5.0 on Linux Fedora Core 4. The server is a Pentium III 1GHz with 512MB, connected to the internet over a DSL line. You can check my current server uptime on Netcraft's site survey. Future Features Heres a list of some new features that I may be adding to the site in the coming weeks: Replace the JSTL-based Guestbook to use the same Struts application as the Tech and Site update blogs Extend the Struts Blog webapp to allow support of online Discussion type functionality Add an additional page to extend the use of RSS XML feeds, aggregating tech news headlines from several sources Extend the above addition to support user logins, and user configurable news headline display from available news sources. Add search and topic filtering functionality to the Blogging webapp

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© Copyright Kevin Hooke, MindBeans Software Consulting 2002-2009. All Rights Reserved. Running on JBoss4.2.0/Tomcat5.0, Linux Ubuntu Server 9.04 Current uptime last checked at: Tue Feb 9 23:13:35 PST 2010 23:13:35 up 63 days, 43 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.08

Last updated: Oct 2007 v2.0