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Dear Reader,

This week at WWDC Apple announced its new line of professional
desktop models with Intel processors. This completes the transition
from PowerPC to Intel, in less than a year. At the same time,
developers got their first look at Mac OS X 10.5, branded as Leopard.
This latest version of the Unix-based OS brings a handful of new
consumer features, but lots more under the hood for power users. For
example, Ruby on Rails will be incorporated in the OS.

We have a series of posts that cover the reverberations from these
announcements. You might want to take a few minutes to survey the
recent entries on our Mac DevCenter blog:

http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/

Also, OSCON program chair Nat Torkington has posted a great discussion
piece on O'Reilly Radar titled, "Where Does the Apple Stop and the
Worm Begin?"

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/08/apple_eats_whiners.html

Lots of great stuff here to consider. I hope you have time to stop by
for a quick read.

Until next week,

-Derrick

Derrick Story
O'Reilly Online Editorial Director
derrick@oreilly.com

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*** Featured Articles ***

Solr: Indexing XML with Lucene and REST
Solr uses the Lucene text indexer and a REST HTTP interface to index
XML and other text collections quickly and efficiently.

<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/08/09/solr-indexing-xml-with-lucene-andrest.html>

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Ant 1.7: Using Antlibs
Most Java developers use Ant to do builds and are familiar with its
core tasks. But Ant's tasks tend toward an undesirable coupling: everything
important had to be a core task because it was hard to distribute new
plug-in tasks. Fortunately, Ant 1.7's new antlibs feature makes it much
easier to distribute and use new Ant tasks. In this article, Kev Jackson
shows you how to use, write, bundle, and test antlibs.

<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/08/09/ant-1-7-using-antlibs.html>

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Understanding the NSTableView Class
This article will provide you with an in-depth introduction on how to use
the NSTableView Cocoa class to display tabular data. You will first learn
how to add an instance of that class to your application project using
Interface Builder. Then, you will learn how to properly implement the data-
source process used to retrieve the data to be displayed by the instantiated
table. Jose Cruz shows you how.

<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/08/08/nstableview-class.html>

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Windows XP File Sharing Mysteries: Part 1
Confused by file sharing in XP? You're not alone. Mitch Tulloch brings you
under the hood and shows you XP's secrets, in the first part of a two-part
series.

<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/08/08/windows-xp-file-sharing-mysteries-part-1.html>

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Summer at the Seaside
With all the attention that Ruby on Rails has been getting, have we not been
paying enough attention to the Smalltalk Seaside framework? Also, we'll look
back at some OSCON moments.(DTF 08-07-2006: 28 minutes 15 seconds)

<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/08/07/distributing-the-future.html>

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Generating UML and Sequence Diagrams
Sometimes a picture can save you thousands of words of description-and
debugging. A sequence diagram shows the flow of methods and function calls
between modules. Perl lets you generate these almost automatically for Perl
code-or even Java. Phil Crow shows how to use UML::Sequence.

<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/08/03/sequence-diagrams.html>

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JDBC 4.0 Enhancements in Java SE 6
Java SE 6 (aka Mustang) brings with it a new set of improvements to the JDBC
API for accessing databases. Improvements include support for the RowID
interface, better exception handling, annotation-based queries, and (finally!)
and end to the clumsy Class.forName() system of loading database drivers. In
this article, Srini Penchikala tours the major features of JDBC 4.0.

<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/08/02/jjdbc-4-enhancements-in-java-se-6.html>

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Using XSLT to Fix Swing
Dave Horlick shows us how to use XSLT to fix HTML rendering bugs in Swing user
interfaces.

<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/08/02/using-xslt-to-fix-swing.html>

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