Just what does "open source" have to do with software patents?

... wherein I decide that, with winter a-cumin in, it's time for a lot of heat, so I venture into the programming language equivalent of TV Wresteling: coding style...

Having had some experience in the recent past with the way intellectual property law is handled in the courts, I'm of the opinion that there must be a better way...

Yes, J2SE 5.0 is out, and as much as we all would like to use it, we know that there are some things that just won't happen over night - such as mass adoption by Appserver vendors,etc. But if you are willing to make a small compromise you can use J2SE5.0 in the guts of your code, but also let it play nicely with your 1.4 environment.

Sometimes code duplication is warranted, even good.

AOP can do a lot of things but it can't clean up poorly structured code.

The Jini TOC General House elections are underway. Here are the goals I'm reaching for in the Jini community.

Cope reflects on a recent trip to Serbia and Montenegro where he found a cornucopia of insight. He relates what academics might do to engage the greatly untapped intellectual resources that have become isolated by Western politics.

I've been doing a lot of work around rule engines lately and am starting to feel that there are a number of similarities/parallels between a Rete knowledge base and a Javaspace.

If you are like most, and possibly even all, programmers (this author humblely included) then your code sucks. Maybe not all of it, and maybe not all the time, but certainly some of it, some of the time.

A contribution to the Jini Community.

My discussion with an experienced but disillusioned Java programmer

Check out the cool stuff the Jini Community is up to...

Anyone who has read David Gelernter’s The Second Coming: A Manifesto, will have heard of the concept of filesystems that grab the data they want and categorise files based on their content. But how near is the reality of Content Based Data Stores (CBDS)

….is that they either try to do too much (but end up doing very little of what you actually want), or they’re so miniscule there isn't one.