MicroSoft has gracefully decided to compare the J2EE/Struts and ASP.NET in a completely objective manner. (Yeah right) 😉 Read it here. I havn’t read it all (got tired of the marketing), but they do an ok comparison. It’s just that they get all hung up in what Struts delivers and tries very hard to ignore what other parts of the J2EE stack delivers.
That’s cool, I went to JavaBiN today (JUG Norway) and listened to Kristoffer Dyrkorn (BEKK Consulting) talk about Lucene and a project they implemented using it. A good talk with the basics and challenges for creating a good search. It basically comes down to knowing your data, target users and tweaking the results.
As I got back I found this article about the details behind The ServerSide search engine. It’s been a informative evening. Excellent. 🙂
Been having some trouble with my server lately. Seems it didn’t like to be put inside a small closet with zero air circulation. 😉 Note to self: think things through a little bit next time you move your hardware.
Couple of links from the downtime:
How to write JavaDoc here.
Survival guide to i18n here.