Here is a very interesting analysis of the debate between proponents of the OpenDocument format and Microsoft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Office_XML
Author: Gerald Beuchelt
It’s a little geeky and doesn’t carry much importance, but I just liked it from a political point of view… NetBeans 5.0 Beta on Windows Vista September 2005 CTP: I used the 1.5.0 update 5 JDK (from http://java.sun.com/) and the…
If you are as lazy in activating Windows, as I am, you might also run into this problem: When Longhorn hits the activation grace period, it will not log you in, unless you activate. To do this over the internet…
Now here is a continuation of my little science project “How does TCP Transport work in Indigo?” I noticed that the preamble that contains the location URL and the content type has a few length headers: Now the $64000 question…
The new NetBeans web services client is quite nice. It is now almost as easy as with Visual Studio to integrate a web service into your application: After pointing the IDE to the WSDL, it generates the necessary proxies and…
If you are looking for a Java IDE, please take a look at the latest Netbeans 5.0 beta: http://www.netbeans.org/ Some of the new features: Support for Tomcat, Sun Application Server, BEA WebLogic and JBoss Massively improved GUI builder (Matisse) Web…
It seems obvious that the data in our web services needs to be framed. In the good old days, where all transport was HTTP this was rather trivial: HTTP headers are rich, and can describe Content-Type, Length etc. But what…
During PDC, I learned that the WS-Policy vocabulary in WCF (formerly “Indigo”) can be extended through IPolicyImporter/IPolicyExporter and IWSDLConverter. I guess I will play around with this in the next couple of week … Meanwhile, anybody who did this already?
Rob Relyea published a somewhat more comprehensive step-by-step list to get a Vista system loaded with WinFX and Visual Studio. Check it here. NOTE: Everything except the Vista OS is publicly available, so go around, tell your friends and spread…
Simon Guest and Kirill Gavrylyuk gave the .NET/Java Interoperability session on PDC this year. They didn’t present any new groundbreaking technology, mostly the stuff we have already seen on JavaOne, but instead show RM, MTOM and Security. The format was…