September2012 Journal

The CodeRanch Journal September 2012

Howdy from everyone at the Ranch!

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Interesting Posts/Articles/FAQs/How-To

If you are a beginner to Java you must checkout the Java FAQ to get started

Ranchers talk about pros and cons of Should old stuff be removed from a future Java version?

If you are new to web containers it might worth reading The Long and Sordid Tale of the Invoker Servlet

Ranchers talk about the New iPhone5

News from the Ranch

New forums

We welcome our new forums (some brand new and some recently added) to the CodeRanch to address developments of various technology stacks & specifications under below categories.

New forum feature

We have added a new icon in front of the username displayed along with each post to denote the OP (Original Poster) so that people can easily recognized the OP when participating in the middle of a long discussion thread.

Book Promotions and Reviews

This week's promo

CMIS and Apache Chemistry in Action in Other Open Source Projects forum

Upcoming promos

SOA Governance in Action in Web Services forum

Activiti in Action in BPM forum

Book Review

Staff book review for Think Python by Allen B. Downey

Staff blog picks

Jeanne experiments with Architexa - An Eclipse diagramming plugin

Frank experiments with VMware Cloud Foundry

Outside the Ranch

Before we wrap up this month's journal, our Trail Boss' experiments continues this time where he compares different types of light bulbs and their effects.

Suggestions/Feedback

If you have any feedback about this edition or the Ranch journal in general, then feel free to open a new thread in our Ranch Office forum

About the editor

Vijitha Kumara has been a member of JavaRanch since 2008 and a moderator since 2011. He works for WSO2 and currently very much in to SOA/Middleware stuff.

All this and much, much more on javaranch.com.