Things To Look Into
Here's a list of things that I would like to look into, when I have time:
- OSGi
- Brian Coyner is playing with it. Andrew Binstock claims it is Java's client side container.
- C-JDBC
- Mentioned by Patrick Niemeyer at the JUG last Thursday when Patrick Linskey presented about JDO and EJB (BTW, the slides are posted).
- java.lang.instrument
- You've got to look into it when a new package shows up in java.lang!
- Boost.Python
- Scripting C++ in python.
- SWIG
- Scripting C/C++ in multiple languages, including Java and C#. I have know it for a long time, but never seriously learned it.
Here's how I did on my last list 496 days ago:
- JOnAS
- I took a cursory look and found that it has good documentation. Deployment seems less developer friendly. I stuck with JBoss.
- nXML
- I liked it and am still using it. I learned RELAX NG (pronounced relaxing according to Mark Volkmann) because of it.
- Jena
- Interesting academic exercise, couldn't really find a place to use it. I know the inside of Mozilla is full of RDFs, but boy was it hard to learn.
- xmln and xmlv
- Fun stuff. Meant to be used with sed and awk to manipulate XML. Jonathan would loved it. I still have them in my /usr/local/bin and use them occasionally.
- XUL
- I liked the idea of writing a web app that has tree controls and table controls. But do Mozilla XUL apps count as web apps?