Eclipse Europa

Eclipse Europa the new annual release of Eclipse (29/June/2007)

I tried its Java EE Edition , for developing web applications.
and it is great.hot deployment, debug on server, deploy on multiple servers .
for me these features that make me use myEclipse . I think now I can use Eclipse Europa for free :)


here is a tour article

A whirlwind tour of Eclipse Europa

Google will acquire on-demand communications security firm Postini Solutions for $625 million

• Posted by Matt Ammerman
• July 10, 2007

The SaaS world is abuzz around Google yet again with yesterday’s news that Google will acquire on-demand communications security firm Postini Solutions for
$625 million.  The acquisition is aimed at bolstering enterprise
security and management confidence in the Google Apps online suite, and
seems to be a direct mirror of Microsoft’s Exchange Hosted Services strategy which was born from their own 2005 acquisition of Frontbridge Technologies. 

With advanced security, archiving, and message filtering in place,
Google’s hopes are that this move will shine a new light on the Google
Apps suite as a viable hosted business suite to enterprise users who
often must conform to compliancy requirements in security and data
archiving.  It’s a good move, and one that Google pretty much had to
make in some form or another.  They’ve established over 100,000 Google
Apps users who will speak for the suite’s usability and aid in
productivity.  Now they’ve set their sights on converting the hordes of
users who haven’t been convinced that usability benefits and frills
outweigh security and compliancy concerns.

As always, Phil has an interesting piece that takes the news and goes another step… “What next for MessageLabs?”

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Grand Central acquired by Google for $50 million?

Michael Arrington was right when he heard GrandCentral was either in talks, or has already been acquired by Google. Today Google announced the acquisition
on their official blog, though the terms have not yet been disclosed.
If Arrington was correct, it’s safe to presume it was around the $50
million dollar mark.

What does this mean? Well, we can only speculate, but it could have
a huge impact in several areas for Google. First, imagine having a
single, always-on, always-ready, forever available, telephone number
that is tied to every phone number you currently have. By signing up,
you will have simplified your life and that of anybody else who tries
to contact you.

Now imagine having that single phone number tied to your Google Talk
instant messenger and Gmail. You can receive phone calls directly on
your computer from anyone and listen to voicemail right in Gmail — the
latter of which, interestingly enough, can already be used today.

The service is currently now in private beta — you will need an
invitation to set up a new account now. You will also find that it only
works for American phone numbers so far. There is no word on upcoming
features or plans to expand to other countries at this time.

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Stripes vs. Struts

Stripes was born out of my ongoing frustration with the lack of a high quality, easy to use web framework. Sure, Struts has its good points, but there are a lot of small things that really add up. A lot of small things that you learn to work around, and live with, without realizing how unproductive it's making you.

Up until recently it would have been difficult to create a framework that was better-enough to warrant competing with Struts. And with JSF on the horizon (perpetually?), and other web frameworks in play (WebWork, Tapestry, Wicket) some might question the rationale behind yet another framework. But with Java 1.5 and Servlet 2.4 I think the time has come. The rationale is plain and simple - I wanted a web framework that made it easy, no, fun, to write web applications in Java. The best way to demonstrate is perhaps by a comparison with Struts.

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