alphaWorks : WebSphere APIs for Edge Side Includes WESI is a set of JavaTM application programming interfaces (APIs) and JSP (JavaServer PagesTM) custom tags for accelerating Web application delivery through distributed fragment caching and assembly with Edge Side Includes (ESI).

Joe wrote about Thread-Local variables in Java & C# a couple days ago… the most recent DDJ (which focuses on Java) has an article discussing the same thing. No html version, but you can download the PDF here.

Java Developer’s Journal has an article on JCache this month.

James put together a comprehensive list of Java Server Faces Resources here, including Articles, Books, Chat / Interview Transcripts, FAQs, Forums / Mailing Lists, In The News, Links, Presentations, Software & Tutorials.

Matt wrote that he thinks that with JSR-223 “… Sun ignored an excellent existing scripting framework for Java (Jython) and opted to reinvent the wheel with Zend using PHP.”

Maybe someone can explain to me how JSR-223 is all about PHP… AFAIK, Sun did mention PHP as one of the scripting languages that could be used, but I seriously doubt that it will be the only one. Take a look at the Expert Group: Macromedia, Apple, Oracle, Zend, etc… Macromedia ColdFusion MX (and previous versions) can *already* use Java objects, the presentation I went to at JavaOne given by a guy from Zend noted that while PHP 4 and 5 can access Java objects, in his words “… it’s not scalable.” Is there something I’m missing?

Haven’t seen this mentioned on the various JavaOne blogs, one of the more interesting things to come out of J2SE 1.5 (Tiger) is going to be the ‘util.concurrent‘ package that Doug Lea has been working on. I attended an excellent excellent session yesterday entitled “Writing a Scalable Server“. The presenter used (I think) some of the ideas from Doug Lea’s software, including such things as “selectors” and “pooled executors”. The result of the discussion was that Mark Reinhold was able to closely mimic the performance of an Apache web server using a server he wrote in Java, albeit with some additional memory usage.

Doug Lea is here, although I missed his session on Monday. Bummed about that.

Wow! So much interesting stuff going on… One of Sun’s focuses for this week is ‘ease of development’. They think that the biggest market for developers in the coming years will be the so-called ‘corporate developer’. Along those lines, Tim Oreilly got up this morning and talked a bit about JSR 223: Scripting Pages in JavaTM Web Applications , which will enable developers who use scripting languages like Perl, PHP, and Python to use Java classes.

I don’t have any net access in the hotel, so I’ll have to brain dump in a couple days…

So I finally got internet access here, they have a cyber cafe w/ network jacks… this morning’s keynote introduced java.net (for developers) and java.com (for consumers), a new logo, a Java powered by advertising campaign and a focus on devices… Java is everywhere.. at least according to Sun.

Oh yeah, Gosling’s blogging now too.

I blogged about my search for some Java tools that handle caching awhile back, I found Java Caching System via thauvin.net this morning. There is a nicely written introduction on using the JCS within a web application here.