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James Duncan Davidson

James Duncan Davidson is a freelance author, software developer, and consultant focusing on Mac OS X, Java, XML, and Open Source technologies. He created Apache Tomcat and Apache Ant and was instrumental in their donation to the Apache Software Foundation by Sun Microsystems. While at Sun he lead the expert groups for two versions of the Java Servlet API and served as one of the architects of the J2EE platform. He is the author of Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, co-author of Cocoa in a Nutshell, and a contributor to Mac OS X Hacks (all published by O'Reilly and Associates) and publisher of his own website, x180, where he keeps his popular weblog.

 

Weblogs

Cory on Trademarks

Cory Doctorow has just published an essay titled Trademarks over on the O'Reilly Network that the executives at...

The Mood Hack

Sometime yesterday (ok, really the day before that now) Ken Arnold started in on his Hack. You see, at MacHack...

Ken Arnold Critiques Ant

I just ran into Ken Arnold at MacHack (he's giving the keynote tonight at midnight) and after chatting a bit, we picked back up the Ant conversation we were...

Speaking in Cleveland

Now that JavaOne and the Wisconsin Software Symposium are done, I've headed further east and am in Cleveland...

Bookmark today.java.net

The front page for Java.net has been down for a while today. The good news is that only the front page is down. Apparently, the infrastructure for the Java.net gaggle of servers is spread around...

On to Wisconsin

After a fun week in San Francisco for JavaOne, there's a group of us, including fellow Java.net bloggers Jason Hunter,...

Ant dot-Next

One of the surprising things about JavaOne for me this year is the amount of talk about Ant. Not the normal "Ant is cool" buzz that I hear (and which still amazes me), but a different...

Blogosphere Reactions to Java.net

One of the interesting things for me about the Java.net experiment so far has been checking out the reactions from the blogosphere that I navigate through every day....

No Link from java.sun.com?

Mike Cannon-Brookes says that Java.net wasn't really launched today because it's not linked in from...

Answers to a Few Java.net Weblogger Questions

Matt Raible (whose blog I read) has a few questions about the Java.net blogs. Here are some answers:

Is...

Keynote: Best and Worst

The morning keynote is done and over with. There wasn't a lot there that stuck with me, but then, it's the non-technical keynote. So what did stick? Two things. One was the best line of the...

Watching the Keynote, Couch Style

It's after 9 in the morning. An unnatural time for a software developer to be awake. And even more unnatural after having been up late last night socializing (the most important part of JavaOne...

Around Town After Hours

The well known secret of JavaOne is that the best stuff doesn't happen behind the doors of the presentation rooms at Moscone, but it happens in the restaurants, bars, and other meeting spots...

Gearing Up For JavaOne

Once again, JavaOne is upon us. It's hard to believe that this is the 8th JavaOne since it all started. Somehow, amazingly, I've been to each and every one. And each year is different. The first...