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"Several leading Java tool vendors are building an organization to link their respective frameworks in an effort to offer an alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s .Net framework and Visual Studio tools.

The group, to be called the Java Tools Community, was initiated by Oracle Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. and looks to create an interoperable Java ecosystem of tool frameworks based on open standards, according to the project's sources."

This article discusses how an administrator can integrate Windows product updates (for example, security patches, critical updates, or hotfixes) that use Update.exe into their Windows installation source files. This procedure may be useful when an administrator must apply one or more product updates during installations from a Windows distribution folder that the administrator creates. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=828930

"SAP AG is working on a variety of developer technologies designed to make its notoriously difficult-to-program enterprise software easier to configure and customize and, as a result, faster and less expensive to modify."

"Use cases are a wonderful idea that has been vastly overcomplicated. Over and over again I have seen teams sitting and spinning in their attempts to write use cass. Typically they thrash on issues of form rather than substance. They argue and debate over preconditions, postconditions, actors, secondary actors, and a bevy of other things that just don't matter.

The real trick to use cases is to keep them simple. Don't worry about use case forms, just write them on blank paper, or on a blank page in a simple word processor, or on blank index cards. Don't worry about filling in all the details. Details aren't important until much later. Don't worry about capturing all the use cases; that's an impossible task."