Even though it's considered bad practice, it's often handy to eval code in JavaScript. And in my case, it was simply necessary, since the JSF specification requires eval of scripts. And it's also necessary to execute those evaluated scripts in the global scope. It's not as easy as it ...

Can you put Flash Player's pretty face on your Web application written in Java/.Net/Python/PHP et al? Yes. Can you do it for free? Yes.

Sun Microsystems has announced the newest version of the Java Web Services Developer Pack (Java WSDP). The new Java WSDP version 1.4 helps enable developers to more rapidly build and deploy secure and interoperable Web services.

With the .NET Compact Framework Microsoft released a uniform development platform for the development of desktop and Pocket PC applications. This new platform should make life much easier for the Pocket PC developer by offering a uniform Visual Studio .NET development environment.