Category: Kev’s Blog

Bruce Perens, leader of the Debian Linux community, has announced that he is planning to release a free version of Linux named UserLinux, based on Debian, that will compete with RedHat’s Enterprise edition version of Linux.

RedHat recently announced that they will be dropping their free distribution of RedHat Linux instead to focus on their commercial Enterprise edition versions of RedHat Linux.

Lawyers acting on behalf of The JBoss Group have sent a letter to the Apache Foundation, stating that some source code contained in the Geronimo project is ‘substantially similar’ to JBoss source code.

The Geronimo project is Apache’s upcoming complete J2EE spec implementation.

Object Computing Inc have a good paper on their site giving an overview and code walkthrough using Hibernate, the open source persistence mechanism.

The JSP2.0 spec is due to be released soon, to be bundled as part of the new J2EE 1.4 spec.

OnJava.com have a good article discussing some of the new features in JSP2.0, which include:

• the JSTL Expression Language (EL) incorporated as standard into JSP2.0
• improved error/exception handling
• Custom tags can be defined in a JSP ‘tag file’ which declares the Custom Tag in terms of another JSP page, rather than subclassing the Custom Tag base classes