DWR is a really fantastic library for Java: it allows to write JavaScript applications in web browsers that will directly and almost transparently call Java-methods of objects that live in the Java-Servlet-Container (e.g. Tomcat) as part of the web-application.
Tag: java
NetBeans 5.0
Just a quick note: NetBeans 5.0 has been released. I really think, Eclipse got a good competitor.
IKVM.NET: Interaction between C# and Java
A nice project, everyone coming from Java and migrating to C#:
IKVM.NET Home Page
It is a JVM implemented in .NET, contains a .NET implementation of a lot classes from the Java class libraries (JDK), compliance of 1.4 almost complete and contains tools for interop between Java and .NET.
FAQ: Java Console Handling
As it is one of the FAQs on every Java newsgroup or Java Mailinglists: “How to handle console?”
I came across a nice library that supports console operations on Windows, Linux and Mac OS: JLine.
Check it out, if you really need to work with the console on the mentioned platforms. The libarary works using native features, but I find the handling quite nice: the required DLL for Windows for instance is dynamically extracted from the JAR and loaded, so there is no need for a special installation.
JLine does not provide curses features at the moment, but it is a good approach if you need to read a password from standard in.