Month: March 2003

Sun are offering their J2EE1.4 test compatibility suite to JBoss for the first time.

Up until this point, JBoss have repeatedly requested to obtain the test suite to verify that JBoss is J2EE compliant, but Sun has been refusing to give it to them. Why? Maybe they don’t want to admit that a fully compliant J2EE server platform can be obtained for free, especially as Sun are competing in the same marketplace with their SunONE server.

Read article here on new.com

BEA have posted online PDFs from all their presentations at BEA eWorld 2003 here.

Heres a great website, www.artima.com with some good articles on all aspects of the Java language, as well as Web Services.

I found this site from a link to an article about using SOAP, but the site has some other great material as well.

Amazon UK had a glitch with their pricing system this morning, resulting in Compaq iPaqs being listed for between 7 and 23 pounds.

In this article on theregister.co.uk, apparently they won’t be honoring the orders placed as there is a legal statement in their terms and conditions that states a contract is not in place between themselves and the buyer until Amazon sends out a confirmation email stating the product has shipped. If thats the case I bet there’s going to be a whole bunch of angry customers knocking on Amazon’s door 🙂

This has happened a number of times before – a couple of months ago Dell made a similar mistake, but apparently they did honor the price mistake and shipped out goods to anyone who made an order during the time period before they corrected the price mistake.