Rumor has it from a post on theserverside.com that the well-known tech book publisher Wrox is shutting down because its parent US company, Peer Information, has gone into liquidation.
There’s another article with more info here at therregister.co.uk
Web Services API for J2ME
JSR172 is planning to add additional APIs to J2ME to allow mobile devices access to Web Services.
The mobile smaller-footprint versions of the JAXP and JAX-RPC APIs will be available this summer.
Interview with James Gosling
Java Developer’s Journal have an online video interview with James Gosling on their site here.
Microsoft’s bCentral Website Hosting Service lacks .NET support
Microsoft’s own small business website hosting service apparently still does not have support for hosting .NET applications.
According to the article in the above link, Microsoft bCentral are still testing the technology and will add support for .NET applications once they find it is stable enough for use.
This doesn’t paint a particually good picture of the new technology if a Microsoft subsidiary is not yet prepared to offer hosting support for .NET applications because the consider the technology ‘not stable enough’…