The Servlet specification provides a really elegant mechanism for packaging up a whole website in to a single WAR file and deploying that file as a website. Multiple websites can be mapped to different domain name prefixes, such as 'www.proteomecommons.org' versus 'tranche.proteomecommons.org'. This blog explains a hack to map the domain prefix to a sub directory of the same web application.
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I just had the chance to play around with Bryan E. Smith's Lego Mindstorms robotics kit. We installed Lejos and I was coding programs directly from Netbeans. It was a lot of fun and surprisingly easy to use Java to control the robot. I've just added a Lego Minstorms kit to my wishlist, but I'm not sure that I'd spend $250 to buy a new kit versus another Nokia n810.
We started with a standard NXT...
