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Today's News

Monday, January 12, 1998

Reto Kramer's iDoc 0.1b is a free quality assurance (QA) tool for Java that helps developers keep doc comments up to date, in sync with the code, ad in accordance with the specification.

Recommended Reading

• Microsoft Posts XSL Parser ()
• Telcos get new shot at ISP fees (news.com)
• PersonalJava ships to licensees (news.com)
• Questionable Study claims IE is leading Netscape in market share (news.com)
• 3Com threatens to sue Microsoft (Wired)
• net.wars (Wendy M. Grossman)

New Year's Resolutions at Cafe au Lait

• I will make some genuinely useful links pages.
• I will make the entire site easier to navigate.
• I will split up long pages like books and old news.
• I will publish more feature articles, books reviews, and Microsoft jokes.
• I will post translations of the Java FAQ list.
• I will convert the entire site to XML (though HTML will still be available for at least the next year)
• I will store many of the pages in databases.
• I will make Cafe au Lait more search engine friendly
• I will write second editions of Java Network Programming and Java Secrets.
• I will sell enough books to pay for all this.

Recent News

Sunday, January 11, 1998

Sun's released the first beta of the Java Cryptography Extension 1.2 to registered members of the Java Developer Connection.

Saturday, January 10, 1998

Someone or something at Microsoft appears to be scanning the entire IP address space, at least large parts of it. Webmasters have begun to notice hits on non-public servers, apparently coming in increasing IP address order, from "tide*.microsoft.com" (tide1.microsoft.com, tide2.microsoft.com, etc.). The tide* machines are Microsoft's proxy servers, but it's not clear what's behind the proxy servers making the requests. The requests are HEAD requests for "/" (the http root) and the "User Agent" is given as "http generic". Perhaps Microsoft is running a robot to check server market share?

Of course Microsoft's a big company, and some of its employees/software have better things to do than scan the entire IP address space. They've posted a partial XSL (style steets for XML) parser for x86 Windows 95 and NT. It's available in two versions. The first is a command line application that generates an HTML file from an XML file and an XSL stylesheet. The second is an ActiveX Control that displays the HTML rendered XML/XSL inside Internet Explorer.

Friday, January 9, 1998

New Atlanta Communications has posted a bug fix release (1.0.2) to ServletExec. ServletExec is a payware server plug-in for Microsoft IIS, Netscape FastTrack and Enterprise servers, Personal Web Server 1.0 on Windows 95, and various Mac OS web servers that allows them to support Java servlets.