HoodedHawk

The monthly Columbia (Maryland) BEA user group meeting was tonight, and Marty Hall (coreservlets.com) gave a very engaging and interesting talk about the new JSP 2.0 (Servlet 2.4) expression language. Now you can replace the verbose:

<jsp:useBean id="someName"
type="somePackage.someClass"
scope="request, session, or application" />
<jsp:getProperty name="someName"
property="someProperty" />


with:

${someName.spmeProperty}

-That’s the best reason for JSP 2.0 Expression Language. You’ll need an app server that supports the servlet 2.4 spec (i.e. Weblogic 9)…

I recorded Marty’s lecture, and have a link there to the materials from his website.

Ok, I don’t have a new Intel-based Mac (yet; saving my pennies), but here’s yet another reason why Apple rocks: They are going to officially support running Windows on their hardware. The software, “Bootcamp“, is in public Beta now, and will be included in the next major version of MacOSX. All you’ll need is a copy of the Windows XP (home or pro) SP2 disk. This brings with it all the issues with Windoze software, as Apple states:

Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC. That means it’ll be subject to the same attacks that plague the Windows world. So be sure to keep it updated with the latest Microsoft Windows security fixes.