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Greetings...

There's a snide one-liner about false nostalgia: "How can we miss you if
you won't go away?" But there are a lot of people here I hope don't go
away. This week, I want to note how fortunate we are that two of the
previous editors of ONJava remain actively involved with the site. A few
editors back, Steve Anglin was the first person to encourage me to get
involved with writing for O'Reilly, and while he's working elsewhere now,
he remains one of the site's most active and interesting bloggers, as you
can see from the list below of ONJava blogs over the last two weeks. And
while you may currently know Daniel Steinberg as the producer and voice of
O'Reilly's "Distributing the Future" podcast, he remains significantly
interested in Java and the directions it's taking. You might have seen
him handling the daily editor's blog a few times on java.net over the last
few weeks, and this week he has an opinion piece for ONJava with a radical
plan for saving desktop Java.

What does the future hold for Java SE? Is it to be anything more than the
basis on which to build EE (and its enterprise counterparts/rivals, like
Spring)? Where is Desktop Java going? Daniel Steinberg has taken a look
at the history and prospects for Desktop Java and he sees the best hope
not in open-sourcing it, but in letting someone else develop it, someone
who better understands end-user desktop applications. Take a look at his
opinion piece, "Outsourcing Java SE," and see who he thinks should take
the reins of Java on the desktop.

<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/07/12/outsourcing-java-se.html>

Sooner or later, you're probably going to need to document your project in
one or more ways: Javadocs for developers who consume your APIs, JavaHelp
for the end user, and so on. But is this top-down approach really
working, or getting done at all? What would happen if you put up a wiki
and let your most enthusiastic users help you? In the ONLamp article
"Rethinking Community Documentation," Andy Oram explores its potential and
its hazards: "I care about community documentation for several reasons.
First, as a heavy user of many computer technologies (with a focus on free
and open source software), I benefit personally from amateur online
sources. Second, I'm intrigued by the culture of mutual aid this movement
reveals, and its meaning for the democratic sharing of information. Most
imperatively, this movement cuts into my living as an editor of
conventional documentation, for several reasons I desperately need to
understand."

<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/07/06/rethinking-community-documentation.html>

In this week's feature article from java.net, John Ferguson Smart looks at
"Web Services Made Easy with JAX-WS 2.0": "The new version of the Java API
for XML Web Services, or JAX-WS 2.0, is an exciting part of the new Java
EE 5 platform. Using a powerful combination of Java 5 annotations and
Ant-compatible tools to mask the underlying complexity of the SOAP
protocol, JAX-WS 2.0 greatly simplifies the development of web services
and of web-service-based SOA architectures."

<http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/06/13/web-services-with-jax-ws-2.0.html>

Recent O'Reilly Network weblogs of interest to Java developers:

Steve Anglin - What do you think: "The Beginning of the End for Java
Starts(Date.Time.NOW());"?
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/07/what_do_you_thinkthe_beginning.html>

Robert Cooper - Why I Hate Microformats
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/07/why_i_hate_microformats.html>

Steve Anglin - After your Java for the day, check this out...
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/07/after_your_java_for_the_day_ch.html>

Paul Browne - Enterprise Web 2.0 = SOA (Service-Orientated Architecture)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/07/enterprise_web_20_soa_service.html>

Hari K. Gottipati - Rivals under one roof: Integrating different IDE
components together
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/07/myeclipse_integrates_netbeans.html>

Steve Anglin - Is the new lightweight Java EE 5 light enough?
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/07/is_the_new_lightweight_java_ee_1.html>

Steve Anglin - JRuby maturing?
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/07/jruby_maturing.html>

Timothy M. O'Brien - Hibernate 3 ORM Patent Infringement Claim against Red Hat
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/hibernate_3_orm_patent_infring.html>

Steve Anglin - Eclipse Callisto debuts
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/eclipse_callisto_debuts.html>

Timothy M. O'Brien - Interview: Real-World Experience with Google Web
Toolkit (GWT)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/some_realworld_experience_with.html>

Paul Browne - Fixed Price? Don't Get Stung.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/fixed_price_dont_get_stung.html>

Steve Anglin - Open sourcing Java on the verge?
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/open_sourcing_java_on_the_verg.html>

Check out more O'Reilly Network Java weblogs at:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/weblog_s?x-subject=3&>

Please join us again next week.

Chris Adamson, Editor
ONJava.com
cadamson@oreilly.com

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