IBM alphaWorks has released an interesting tool called Nested Archive Tookit that allows to look inside the nested zip/jar/ear/war files. It looks to be useful for modification of config files deep inside the structure (e.g. web.xml inside foo.war inside bar.ear). It can also provide XML file with the description of the archive to the full [...]
A lot of interesting questions were asked at alumni-only fireside chat with Sun team today. I am only going to mention the questions Sun did not have a good story for.
JVM on PDAs - Sun is pushing Java for Mobiles quite hard. Witness the support for SaveJe. This however is a difficult road especially in [...]
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Ports-Services is a useful service to identify what might be listening on a particular port or what port should particular (well-known) service listen to.
It has some java related ports (RMI, Jini).
It also has trojan listings for the ports and it is a bit scary to see the useful service entries completely overshadowed by the huge [...]
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About a month ago, Steve Kaufmann (creator of theLinguist service) and I had a disagreement on whether grammar is important in studying language. In summary, he thinks that the grammar should be studied last if at all, while I think grammar allows one to create a mental infrastructure that would make learning easier.
Since Steve is [...]
UIMA is a new-ish framework on the block competing/cooperating with GATE framework to do NLP processing, annotation and search. Jon Udell recorded a screencast with a couple of IBM-ers to show off and explain UIMA.
While the screencast moves a little slow for a person familiar with sentence tokenizing principles, it is still interesting to see [...]
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Dana Nourie lists 10 presentations in tools space that she thinks are worth seeing at JavaOne 2006. My own presentation is there as well (number 7). Guess it struck the chord.
I also have 240+ people booked for my session as of now. No way to tell if that is many or not enough for this [...]
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