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 price glitch gives away iPaqs for 7 pounds
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.
Tech Publisher Wrox closes it’s doors?
Rumor has it from a post on theserverside.com that the well-known tech book publisher Wrox is shutting down because its parent US company, Peer Information, has gone into liquidation.
There’s another article with more info here at therregister.co.uk
Web Services API for J2ME
JSR172 is planning to add additional APIs to J2ME to allow mobile devices access to Web Services.
The mobile smaller-footprint versions of the JAXP and JAX-RPC APIs will be available this summer.