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Greetings...

When consulting with the authors and editor of "Java Generics and
Collections" for material to excerpt for ONJava, I originally thought we'd
probably end up running some introductory material, in the interests of
finding something that could stand by itself as a website article and not
require a lot of information from the rest of the book. However, their
response was to push farther into the book and excerpt Chapter 5, which
deals with converting existing applications to use Java 5.0's generics.

This turned out to be a great choice, because this topic is not usually
considered in introductory material on generics. If you get to work with a
new project, you can and probably will use generics (unless you're using
and older version of Java or are not planning on using the Collections
framework), and that's great. But it's a lot more likely you already have
an existing code base and that converting the whole thing to use generics
in one fell swoop, even off on a branch, is impractical. This is what
Chapter 5 deals with, showing you how to gradually introduce generics on
one or both sides of your method calls.

The entire chapter is presented in the form of excerpts over the last two
weeks. If you're interested, do check out the rest of the book, either on
paper or via Safari Books Online.

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/javagenerics_chap05/index.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/excerpt/javagenerics_chap05/index1.html

Need to automate your code testing? Most Java developers already know
about JUnit, but maybe you should check out TestNG, which offers a host of
useful features like test categorization and parametric testing, and can
be run via Java 5.0 annotations. Andy Glover has an introduction to some
of these strengths in the dev2dev article "Test Categorization Techniques
with TestNG."

http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/09/testng-categorization.html

In this week's feature article from java.net, Brian Agnew introduces "XML
Manipulation using XMLTask." "XMLTask is an external task for the popular
build tool Ant that permits complex manipulations of XML in a simple and
consistent fashion, without having to deal with XSL. XMLTask can be used
for many common tasks that developers face, including manipulating J2EE
and Spring descriptors, creating XHTML websites, and driving workflows via
XML configuration files."

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/11/01/xml-manipulation-using-xmltask.html

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

Robert Cooper - Netbeans Ruby
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/netbeans_rubuy.html

Robert Cooper - Web 2.0 meet Tilde
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/web_20_meet_tilde.html

Jim Farley - Forget the iPhone - I want "MacOS Mobile"
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/the_time_is_ripe_for_macos_mob.html

Paul Browne - Open Java changes Everything
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/open_java_changes_everything.html

Robert Cooper - GWT Maven Plugin 1.0.3 Available.
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/gwt_maven_plugin_103_available.html

Robert Cooper - Thoughts on Data Binding and Swing
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/thoughts_on_data_binding_and_s.html

Robert Cooper - Microsoft's Non-Compete API License
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/microsofts_noncompete_api_lice.html

Timothy M. O'Brien - RE: Playing with XFire
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/re_playing_with_xfire.html

Robert Cooper - Rails in Glassfish
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/rails_in_glassfish.html

Dejan Bosanac - Playing with XFire
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/playing_with_xfire.html

Robert Cooper - GWT 1.2... final... beta... released
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/gwt_12_final_beta_released.html

Check out more O'Reilly Network Java weblogs at:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/

Please join us again next week.

Chris Adamson, Editor
ONJava.com
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XSLT as Pretty Printer
Hew Wolff discusses some of the issues surrounding an XSLT style sheet
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Java Generics and Collections: Evolution, Not Revolution, Part 2
In the second part of an excerpt from Java Generics and Collections,
authors Maurice Naftalin and Philip Wadler continue their study of how to
adopt Java 5.0 generics in a measured, sustainable fashion. Having shown
how to genericize a library while leaving the library in legacy mode, they
now present three approaches to the opposite scenario: genericizing a
client that uses a non-genericized library.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/excerpt/javagenerics_chap05/index1.html

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Build Your Own Media Center PC, Part 1
Windows Media Center turns your ordinary PC into an all-in-one home
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from scratch.

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Building Interactive iPod Experiences
The interactive multimedia presentation is one of the least-trumpeted
features of the iPod. In this article, Erica Sadun introduces the basics
of interactive iPod design by showing how to use the iPod Notes feature to
create presentations that include text, links, images, music, and videos.

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/11/28/building-interactive-ipod-experiences.html

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Finding Your Voice
We have three pieces this week that hover around the theme of finding your
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Insider that looks at how much computer voices have improved. This is the
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Windows Media Center turns your ordinary PC into an all-in-one home
entertainment center to watch and record TV programs, play DVDs, listen to
music, share your digital photos, and more. In this first part of a
two-part article, Wei Meng-Lee shows you how to build a Media Center PC
from scratch.
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/11/28/build-your-own-media-center-pc-part-1.html

Is Vista the End of Windows As We Know It?
The five-year-long march to developing Windows Vista exposed just how
broken Microsoft's Windows-development process is. It took far too long,
major features were dropped along the way, and it was wrapped up in more
red tape than the IRS. See why I think that in order to fix the problems,
Microsoft will have to change the way Windows works.
http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/11/is_vista_the_end_of_windows_as.html

Windows Mobile Weekly Roundup
Todd Ogasawara has all the news about Windows Mobile, including a look at
Yahoo! Mobile, a mobile portal that gets no respect.
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Listen in to what some of the internet industry's leading thinkers and
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This week: Web 2.0 - A Conversation with Eric Schmidt:
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Hello, subscribers to the Linux newsletter. Your editor hopes that those
of you who had a four-day weekend are properly thankful. (Your editor
also notes that you stopped reading websites over this period. Good for
you!) Here's what you need to catch up on now... ready? Go!

Virtualization is big news in commodity hardware circles. It's
established technology for mainframes. IBM is just one of many tech
companies with hardware support for running multiple virtualized operating
systems on a single box. They've also been doing it for years. Ken
Milberg discusses how the POWER5 architecture handles virtualization,
especially with regard to Linux systems:

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/11/22/power5-virtualization.html

In recent podcasts, your editor convinced Fotango's James Duncan and
O'Reilly editor and Parrot architect Allison Randal to discuss the
humanity of source code and why computers may be unnecessary. As well, he
discussed the Apache Software Foundation and the goals of spreading code
and healthy communities with Greg Stein:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/11/20/distributing-the-future.html

Also, John Battelle and Eric Schmidt discuss why Google purchased YouTube
and whether Google might take on Microsoft Office:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/11/22/web-20-eric-schmidt.html

In weblogs this week, Paul Browne ponders how open Java changes everything:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/open_java_changes_everything.html

Robert Cooper wonders what Microsoft's non-compete API license means for
OpenOffice.org:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/microsofts_noncompete_api_lice.html

Your editor praises the release of Perl::Critic plugins for text editors:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/11/perlcritic_plugin_for_bbedit.html

Ann Barcomb summarized the week in Perl 6 -- thanks, Ann!

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/11/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_12.html

Carla Schroder prefers to turn kids onto computing through real life
instead of foisting lousy "educational" games on them:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/11/turning_kids_on_to_computing.html

Todd Ogasawara promoted several useful pieces of free and open source
software for Windows:

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/11/freewareopen_source_for_window.html

Geoffrey Grosenbach loves his local (and non-local) techie mailing lists:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/11/the_joy_of_local_mailing_lists.html

pat eyler summarized a programmer deathmatch in Utah:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/11/programmer_deathmatch_in_utah.html

Next week: inside the Linux kernel's memory management system, messaging
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Using Offline Files
Mobile users need access to their personal files, even when disconnected
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and Chris Sanders show you the ins and outs of setting up and using
offline files.
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/11/21/using-offline-files.html

Microsoft's Ballmer: Linux Users Must Pay Up
Not too long ago, Microsoft signed a deal with Novell, which showed that
Redmond's siege mentality when it comes to Linux is finally over. But now
Steve Ballmer has essentially told Linux users that they're infringing on
Microsoft intellectual property. What's up with Microsoft and Open Source?
Check out my blog for details.
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One of the hottest conferences recently was the Web 2.0 Summit, held
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In the first segment, Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle look back at their original
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Virtualization and the POWER5 Architecture
Virtualization is a trendy topic in the server room now, especially as
commodity computers begin to support features that mainframes have had for
decades. Mainframes aren't standing still, however; IBM's POWER5
architecture supports powerful virtualization features on AIX... and
Linux. Ken Milberg describes some of the benefits of the recent work on
this platform.

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/11/22/power5-virtualization.html

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Music and Metadata
Chris Mitchell offers an interesting take on music and the Semantic Web,
using metadata to find a club with the right style of music.

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/11/22/music-and-metadata.html

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Java Generics and Collections: Evolution, Not Revolution, Part 1
In this excerpt from Java Generics and Collections, authors Maurice
Naftalin and Philip Wadler show how to make the switch to Java 5.0
generics, not by expecting you to flip a switch across your whole code
base, but by having you gradually work generics into your code while
maintaining compatibility.

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/javagenerics_chap05/index.html

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Peter Green's Modded Macs
Giles Turnbull recently visited hardware hacker and composer Peter Green
to check out his homemade Mac laptop and tablet computers. Learn what
inspires Green and how he made these machines, along with images and video
of these inventive Mac mods.

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/11/21/peter-greens-modded-macs.html

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Using Offline Files
Mobile users need access to their personal files, even when disconnected
from the network--and offline files let them do just that. Mitch Tulloch
and Chris Sanders show you the ins and outs of setting up and using
offline files.

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/11/21/using-offline-files.html

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Web 2.0 Summit Opening Session
The week we begin with the opening session from program chairs Tim
O'Reilly and John Battelle. They look back at their original notions of
the ideas that make up Web 2.0 and preview many of the sessions that you
will see in the coming weeks. This first episode is sponsored by the Intel
Software Partner Program (www.intel.com/partner).

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/11/17/web-20-summit-opening-session.html

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Code for and by the people
We've got two pieces this week that originated with conversations that
O'Reilly editor chromatic recorded at this year's FOO camp. In the first
he talks with Allison Randall and James Duncan about source code and how
you can tell that at least half the target audience are humans. He then
talks about the Apache Software Foundation with Greg Stein. (DTF
11-20-2006: 24 minutes, 15 seconds)

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/11/20/distributing-the-future.html

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Caching Dynamic Content with Apache httpd
Dynamic websites tend to be easier to manage than large collections of
similar static files, but they often get many times more reads than they
do writes. Every database hit and page generation can eat up precious CPU
cycles. Rich Bowen shows off mod_cache, which trades disk space or memory
for CPU and can help improve performance on your servers.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/11/16/apache-mod_cache.html

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Reshaping IT Project Delivery Through Extreme Prototyping
Why should the benefits of short iterations and a tight feedback loop be
limited to the agile methodologies like Extreme Programming? In this
article, Satya Komatineni explores the idea of Extreme Prototyping--the
staged, ongoing development of a web app prototype that emerges into a
final product. He shows how it can eliminate common design and project
management errors.

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/11/15/reshaping-it-project-delivery-through-extreme-prototyping.html

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How to Deploy Software Using Group Policy
Deploying software needn't be a chore for network administrators. You can
leverage the power of Group Policy and Intellimirror, as Mitch Tulloch and
Chris Sanders show you.

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/11/14/how-to-deploy-software-using-group-policy.html

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Subspace Networks: Hiding Circuit Switched Networks in a Packet Switched
Network
Brian McConnell describes a trick that he calls "subspace networking,"
which can be used to embed circuit switched networking within packet
switched LAN hardware, while applications are unaware that this is going
on behind the scenes.

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* Perl Events

The London Perl Workshop is coming:

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So is the Open Source Developers Conference (hooray, Australia!):

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/10/1111254

* Perl News

Chris Dolan generously donated time and equipment and effort to record
video of many of the presentations at this summer's YAPC::NA in Chicago.
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Parrot pumpking Chip Salzenberg released Parrot 0.4.7, "Caique". Your
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Speaking of Chip, Josh McAdams and Perlcast recently interviewed the once
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Michael Schwern thinks you should record Perl tutorial screencasts:

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David Landgren has summarized the weeks in Perl 5:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/09/2257248
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/16/1334256

Your editor has minuted the Perl 6 design meetings:

http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/31558
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/31647

* Perl Jobs

The Pugs and Parrot projects each maintain a small list of tasks for
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don't have to know much about either project or much beyond Perl 5.

For Pugs and Perl 6 hackers, this fortnight's task is to log onto the IRC
channel #perl6 in irc.freenode.net and talk to Flavio S. Glock (fglock)
about how you can help him with MiniPerl6. This is a cut-down set of
features of Perl 6 which can bootstrap the full version of Perl 6.
MiniPerl6 right now compiles down to Perl 5 and can run at almost full
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Perl 5 hackers and people who know or are willing to learn Perl 6 can help
refine the code.

For Parrot hackers, there are plenty of Perl 5 tasks and minor C tasks,
including refactoring away duplicate code in the test suite, making the C
code adhere to coding standards, and reviewing the state of the design
documents. See the list of open tickets at http://xrl.us/owsd or check in
on IRC in #parrot on irc.perl.org.

* Perl on ORN

Tony Stubblebine attended a Salesforce.com miniconference and found its
new AppExchange platform very interesting. It compelled him to explore
exactly what it takes to put together a hosted business application. As it
turns out, it's very easy. He's even provided a small snippet of relevant
Perl code:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/11/13/an-introduction-to-saleforcecoms-appexchange.html

Ann Barcomb summarized the weeks in Perl 6:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/11/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_9.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/11/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_10.html

Dave Cross announced the London Perl Workshop 2006:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/11/london_perl_workshop_2006.html

Jeremy Jones wondered how political shifts in the U.S. Congress might
affect the world of technology:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/11/is_a_democratically_controlled.html

Your editor went to the Chicago Perl Hackathon and reported his experiences:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/11/pushing_the_caique_out_the_doo.html

Now he will spend his weekend recovering from flight delays,
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Your editor has just returned from the first ever standalone Perl
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Jeremy Jones wondered if political shifts in the US Congress would benefit
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Your editor found the world's worst justification for software complexity. Ever.

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Robert Cooper noticed the Sun GPL Java story early:

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Anton Chuvakin demonstrated how browsing Sendmail logs can alert you to
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Paddy Sreenivasan linked to the specification for the MySQL online backup APIs:

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The basic HTML widget set and form submission tools have changed little in
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Is there a data structure more convenient than the simple associative
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In related news, Perlcast spoke to Bill Odom, president of The Perl Foundation:

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Brady Forrest found interesting characterizations of search engine optimizers:

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Allison Randal evaluated an email service called Alien Camel:

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Nat Torkington predicted a plague of advertising-related HTML floats:

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Curtis Poe announced The Perl Foundation's most recent call for grant proposals:

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Jeremy Jones installed Ubuntu Edgy on old hardware:

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Chris Tyler pointed to videos of a Free Software and Open Source Symposium:

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Ann Barcomb summarized the week in Perl 6 development:

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Geoffrey Grosenbach shared a few Ruby testing tidbits:

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Anton Chuvakin released a poll about security conferences:

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Brian Jones also polled system administrators about synchronizing files
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