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Google have launched a beta of a new online service, which they are calling ‘Google Base’
The service seems to be an online store of any information you can imagine, and allows users to post content, images, files, ads, etc, with attached keyword information so that it can be indexed and searchable by other users.
Microsoft are expected to launch their next-gen console next week, on Nov 22. They have confirmed a lineup of 18 new games for the new console.
I’m interested only because this is a glimpse into the future… with Sony’s monster of a machine, the PS3, due to launch next year, the XBox360 will show what is possible with this kind of horsepower. The interesting thing is that the PS3 is epxected to be even more powerful in turns of raw grunt than that the XBox360, so will it be a case of ‘anything you can do I can do better?’. Time will tell.
In the meantime, feast your eyes on the trailer videos on sites like IGN.com for the PS3 and the XBox360 – the games are sure looking pretty impressive.
In case you were wondering, this guy in his blog has indentified a list of CDs that Sony has bundled with their notorious rootkit protection.
If you’ve never come across Struts, the de facto Java web framework, and were wondering what it is about, then Chuck Caveness (author of O’Reilly book ‘Programming Jakarta Struts’) gives an excellent overview of the features and benefits in this article on the OnJava.com site.
This article doesn’t mention the future of Struts and the fact that Java Server Faces is to become the standard web framework bundled with the rest of the specifications for Java EE 5, or that Craig McClanahan, one of the main developers of Struts, is involved in the JSR spec for JSF as one of the spec leads. This will undoubedly take some focus from Struts. Struts Shale is where the future of Struts is likely to be (Struts 2.x), which is Struts ontop of JSF, using JSF as the core, and adding to it lessons learnt from Struts.