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I came across this nice collection of web service frameworks, tools, and resources for Java.

The Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project has released WTP Milestone M4 yesterday. It was built against the Eclipse SDK 3.1M6 release, which was released about a month ago. A few months ago, I tested WTP M3 in conjunction with Eclipse SDK 3.1M5, but it wasn’t quite there yet… Two weeks or so ago I installed the latest nightly build of WTP M4 on Eclipse 3.1M6 on my home machine, and this already looked very promising, although I haven’t had much of a chance to really exercise it, and I didn’t quite dare to install it on my PC at work....

I’ve been reading up a little on the Spring Framework, which seems very impressive. It can be used in several tiers of a typical web application, and depending on where it is used it either cooperates or competes with other established frameworks. For example, Spring comes with its own MVC imlementation that competes with Apache Struts and addresses several of Struts’ shortcomings. On the other hand, Spring’s container framework can be used to build a business tier in conjunction with another front-end technology, such as Struts (for example as an alternative to more heavyweight J2EE solutions such as EJB)....

I finally got an opportunity to work with web services. I had of course read about these in the past and in fact implemented web service like applications prior to the emergence of SOAP, but I had never really had a chance to actually work with web services on a project. On my current project, I am using Apache Axis to expose some of our functionality to third parties, a prime example of what web serices are good for....

Just a few comments on Gentoo and Java. Of course, Gentoo includes many Java packages. For the most part, installing a Java application works the same way as installing a native application, using the “emerge” tool. The source code for the application is downloaded, compiled using the appropriate settings, and installed, along with any dependent packages. For example, installing the Eclipse IDE and the Tomcat application server, both of which depend on many other Java packages, was a snap (well, maybe not exactly a snap due to the lengthy compilation cycle, but easy nevertheless)....