Microsoft have announced a further delay in the release of Windows Vista which was supposed to ship in November this year. It will be now 5 years since Windows XP was released, and some are wondering whether Microsoft can keep up their cashflow from milking the same product despite growing gaps between product releases.
Parsing RSS Feeds in Java
Sun has a Java library for download that helps with the parsing of RSS feeds.
RSS is XML that describes news items or articles. RSS feeds are used for aggregating content from other sources, such as other websites. As the data is in XML, it can be transformed and processed very easily for display in a number of different ways.
Monitoring Web Services in Glassfish
Sun has a great article on their Sun Developer Network site showing how to develop a WebService using annotations on the Glassfish EE5.0 server, and then use the JMX facilities to monitor the performance.
Using GoogleMaps API with JSP Tags
Google have developed a Javascript based API that allows you to build websites using the Google Maps functionality. In case you don’t want to mess around with Javascript, then here is some info about an open source project providing a library of JSP Custom Tags to offer the same integration with the GoogleMaps API.