http://www.cafeaulait.org/ Cafe au Lait is the preeminent independent source of Java information on the net. Unlike many other Java sites, Cafe au Lait is neither beholden to specific companies nor to advertisers. At Cafe au Lait you'll find many resources to help you develop your Java programming skills here including daily news summaries, FAQ lists, tutorials, course notes, examples, exercises, book reviews, user groups and more. en-us (c) 2003 Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu http://www.cafeaulait.org/cup.gif http://www.cafeaulait.org/ 89 67 The Eclipse Project has posted the first milestone release of Eclipse 3.0, an open source integrated development environment (IDE) for Java. It also doubles as a base platform for your own applications, an alternative to the AWT and Swing, and a powerful floor wax and dessert topping. From my perspective, the most important new feature in this release is much better support for Mac OS X. This is planned to be back ported to an upcoming 2.2.1 maintenance release so Mac users won't have to wait for the final 3.0 release currently scheduled for 2004. Other new features are mostly minor. Overall this feels more like a 2.2 than a full version shift. http://www.cafeaulait.org/#news2003June21 Richard Rodger has posted Jostraca 0.3.3, "a general purpose code generation toolkit for software developers. Code generation helps save you time and effort by reducing redundancy and drudge work. Code generation can be thought of as programming by example. Show the computer an example of what you want, and it does the rest. Jostraca generates code using the Java Server Pages syntax. However this syntax can be used with any language. Jostraca comes preconfigured for Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Rebol and C, with more to come." Jostraca is published under the GPL. Jostraca is written in Java, and Java 1.2 or later is required. http://www.cafeaulait.org/#news2003June21