If you haven’t looked at Groovy yet, here’s an interview with the project leader for the Groovy project. The interview covers a brief overview of Groovy, where the scripting language is going in the future, and what a Quarter Pounder with Cheese is really called in France 🙂
IBM donate effort to help with Apache Geronimo project
Since IBM puchased the company Gluecode, they now have a vested interest in seeing Geronimo succeed. Gluecode is a pacakger and promoter of Geronimo, and develop a set of management tools that make administration of a Geronimo server easier.
Are Linux LAMP developers moving to Java?
Evans Data research company has a report from a survey in Europe and Middle East and shows that the number of developers currently using development tools such as PHP and Perl on a Linux platform is slowing declining. The research company is speculating that these developer are moving to Java instead.
Building a search facility including spellchecking with Lucene
Java.net have a good article on their site showing how to add spell checking to a search engine capability using Lucene.
This article starts with a quick overview on how to use Lucene to implement a search using Lucene and then expands this concept to show how to also add in a spell check feature (similar to Google).