Jams, Jellies & Preserves

- In Part 3 of his SOA series Eric Giguere explores how to do SOA when the target device does not support Web Services (JSR 172). Dig in to learn what your options are.

DZone: java

I like the BGGA closures proposal and would like to see it become a 'bolt on' solution if it doesn't make it to Java 7.

I have just moved my personal site over to a new Typepad location.  You are all welcome to visit.

The site's archive will remain intact here until I can figure out how to map it to a new location.

Version 1.5.2 of Chiba Core, an open source, XForms library for Java. This release "adds the new Xforms 1.1 schema which is now configurable. Therefore the nil value is now valid for a bunch of Schema types like data, double and the like. Localisation has been improved and now falls back to US locale as default if incoming value cannot be parsed. A new appender has been added to logging."

Microsoft has acknowledged that exploit code is circulating for a still-unpatched vulnerability it first reported six months ago. But it's not clear when, or if, it plans to release a patch.