Passion Development » api http://www.passiondevelopment.com Java Developers in Dublin Ireland | It's what we love Thu, 08 May 2008 15:00:23 +0000 en hourly 1 Google Release AJAXSLT http://www.passiondevelopment.com/2006/09/12/google-release-ajaxslt/ http://www.passiondevelopment.com/2006/09/12/google-release-ajaxslt/#comments Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:11:55 +0000 Stephen Downey http://www.passiondevelopment.com/2006/09/12/google-release-ajaxslt/ Google have just released AJAXSLT.

…an implementation of XSL-T in JavaScript, intended for use in fat web pages, which are nowadays referred to as AJAX applications.

I'm looking forward to playing around with this.  I have being doing a lot of work with XSLT lately so it will be interesting to see how Google have married this with AJAX. 

 

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Java and USB by Jeff Friesen — Want to use a USB device in Java? Some with native abstractions, like mass-storage drives, work as you'd expect, but many devices like webcams and game controllers are simply invisible to the Java programmer. Jeff Friesen looks at two APIs that expose USB devices to Java, then shows how to build a Java USB implementation of your own.

Currently, Java does not officially support USB but Jeff discusses how you can use thirdparty APIs as well as his own API.  Readers may also be interested in the Bluetooth JSR.

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On a different note, I was at another DJMG meeting last week where we discussed dynamic languages such as Ruby on Rails and Groovy.  It looks like there are a lot of advantages to using these languages over the conventional Java program.  Jake was able to show us how Ruby on Rails can provide you with web interface to database tables in just a few clicks.   As we discussed this software works great for what 95% of web applications use J2EE for and at the end of the day this is what we usually are developing.

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