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The best anti-terror gadgets. Like a credit card-sized radiation detector…

Simon — Thumbs up for JSP/Servlet compatibility (so far).

Danny — CVSGrab Ant task and Eclipse Quick Starts.

Tech Tip: Using Runtime.exec to Invoke Child Processes.

Tech Tip: Programming With File Attributes.

Joey — My One Complaint About The Latest Eclipse.

Russ — More on SonyEricsson.

Microsoft Partners Rally Around Visual Studio .NET. Borland, Groove Networks and AmberPoint…

AOL Time Warner gets new technology czar. A former CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment…

Another Garbage Patent. Apple was rewarded a patent for the “Garbage” icon in Mac OS X.

Google rolls out new online ad program. An automated online advertising program…

Erik — My Killer Mobile Screen Display Idea: Projected Displays.

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Apache Tomcat 4.1.21 Beta, includes many bugfixes and performance tweaks over Tomcat 4.1.18.

Charles — JFileChooser & J2SE 1.4.2.

Sam — HttpUnit.NET Approved!

Matt — Tomcat 5.0.1 Alpha Released! and Ant JMeter Task.

Jason — MiniBlog locales on Orion.

Eric — Eclipse Tip: Remove Splat Imports.

Russ — Mobitopia Lives: The New Mobile Tech Group Blog.

Bill — RSS already has ads.

Jerome — WebWork with Velocity templates…

Matt — Sony Ericsson T610 and JXTA PR, JXTA 2.0.

Steve — Idea TestCase file template.

Norman — Singleton Considered Harmful.

Kudos to Bare Bones Software! BBEdit Lite 6.2 is once again available from the company's site.

New handsets from Sony Ericsson. T310, T316, T610, T616, T606, T608, A1301S.

Combination GPRS/802.11b card for laptops. Sony Ericsson's GC79.

Bluetooth MP3 player/cellphone headset. Sony Ericsson's HBM-30.

Sony's Chairman: “I really want to own Palm”.

Macromedia reports critical hole in Flash player. The flaw affects Version 6 of the Macromedia Flash Player.

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JFaceDbc 1.2rc1, a JDBC client application (stand-alone or Eclipse plugin) written in Java.

Mobiles disabled to beat thieves. Half a million stolen handsets have been blocked from network signals and disabled in a new street crime initiative.

GLUE 4.0 Web Services Platform Announced.

JCodeBox J2EE Application/Component Builder Released.

Romeo: More T68i Remote Control Software.

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Ted — Effective Enterprise Java (Architecture): Understand Middleware and Effective Enterprise Java (Architecture): Follow the Zen.

Chimera Is Dead. Long Live Camino!

Jos — Custom XSD validation ant task, extending ant is easy.

Apple online music service wins kudos. Top executives at the major record companies have finally found an online music service that makes them excited about the digital future.

Java Regular Expression Package 1.1.0, includes classes for handling regular expressions and non-deterministic finite state automata (NFAs).

Java Parser/Parser Generator 2.1.1a, a Java-based parser and parser generator package/utility.

Today is Vicki's Birthday. We're going to give il Bacio a try for dinner.

Joe — WebWork: ParameterAware is *strange*.

Trita, a Source Code Beautifier That Learns Your Style.

MPXJ, an open source Java implementation of a file handling library to create, read, and write Microsoft Project Exchange files, Project 2002 MSPDI XML files.

PERST is very simple object oriented embedded database.

White Paper: Optimizing your Java Applications for Performance.

Carlos — Taxonomy of Software Connectors.

Trial to protect ‘Windows’ name delayed. A trial to decide whether Microsoft Corp.'s Windows deserves copyright protection was postponed.

Jason — Using MiniBlog with Orion Server.

On March 4, 1789 — The first Congress of the United States met in New York and declared that the U.S. Constitution was in effect.

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Erik — Finally…

Survey Says Number Of Web Services Projects Growing.

Fred — JSP Insider.

Glen — 38 percent of US adults know what Wi-Fi is.

Kasia — Bad code annoyance with Java #234840.

Matthew — No 1.4.1 Final for Mac OS X (Yet) & Why Sendmail in Mac OS X.

Kenneth — The Review of the Sharp LL-T15G3.

jclassinfo 0.6, a Java Class Information Extractor.

The best of both. Toshiba e330 Pocket PC.

World's thinnest MP3 recorder. Rio DR30.

West Coast cities tops in wireless. Wireless networking technology is more of a West Coast thing, according to a survey released by Intel.

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Matt — The Debate is flawed: Struts vs. WebWork.

Werner — BEA WebLogic Portal : Webflow or Struts.

Leslie — Stop using numbers in your IP addresses.

Joe — Naked Objects.

Apple releases AppleScripts for Sony Ericsson Clicker.

TICL 1.1, Tag Interface Component Library.

UICompiler v1.0, an integrated User Interface Compiler suite.

Microsoft quits OpenGL board, signalling an intention to go at it alone with its Direct3D graphics platform.

MeYou: New WYSIWYG HTML Editor and Web Blogger.

Matt — Why Do Cel Phones In the US Suck?

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Jakarta Ant 1.5.2 Released!

Training for the Java Black Belt. Sun Microsystems and IDA unveiled an advanced training initiative called the Java Black Belt program.

Glider for Eclipse, a J2EE development environment that lets you instantly debug your EJB application.

BEA Announces WebLogic Platform 8.1 at BEA eWorld.

Simon — Win a copy of OpenOffice.org 1.0 Resource Kit this week at JavaRanch.

Patrick — Risk Analysis - Struts vs WebWork.

Dominic — 03-03-03 and 30 for me! Happy Birthday!

James— commons modeler is worth a look.

Jim — Spam, spam, spam.

Joey — Cool Use of Jython.

myPod 0.2.1, a platform-independent program to manage MP3 files and transfer them to an iPod.

Zoe 0.4.2 adds better RSS and SMTP handling.

BiGHA's new touring bicycle. Looks like a nice recumbent bike.

Security flaw in major e-mail system discovered. A flaw in Sendmail.

The future of Java test tools. New technologies add power, complexity.

Java in the enterprise: Testing the complexities.

Apple releases March Security Update. Addresses a security issue with sendmail.

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Eclipse WebApp Plugin 0.9.0, a plugin to support the development and testing of web applications in Eclipse.

BEA To Provide Free Development Licenses for the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform. BEA announce dev2dev Subscriptions.

David — blojsom 1.4 released.

Matthew — Blogging your product.

JaxMe 1.5.5, a Framework for Java/XML binding based on SAX2.

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JDK 1.4.1 for OS/2. OS/2 Kit for Java Beta 5 is available.

Bill — New WS specs from BEA.

JFreeReport 0.8.1, a Java class library for generating reports from tables.

Velocity editor plugin for Eclipse 1.0.0, a Velocity editor plugin for Eclipse.

Mobiles used to monitor asthma. Asthma suffers could soon benefit from a system which allows them to keep check their condition via mobile phone.

Bea launches Java development initiative. Bea has launched an initiative aimed to establish a Java community around its WebLogic application server.

Russ — Why I Don't Want a New Job.

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XMLValidator 1.0, XMLValidator/DTD edition is a Java Xml structure manager.

Luxilla Beta 8, Java Propelled XUL Browser.

Matt — Will Apple release JDK 1.4.1 today?

Fred — J2ME Optional Packages.

Bill — OS X Terminal Fun.

Stu — Bloggers at BEA eWorld?

Kenneth — NetFlix for Books ?

Costin — JMX clustering.

Norman — Obfuscation Hubris.

2003 GCC Developer's Summit. Ottawa, Canada from May 25th-27th, 2003.

Amazon Has Approval To Sell Domain Names. The Internet retailer in early December was accredited as a so-called “domain name registrar”…

First networked DVD player goes on sale. SONICblue is taking pre-orders on the D2730.

World's smallest mobile printer. Brother's m-PRINT.

We went to see Cradle 2 The Grave on Saturday afternoon.

JSX2 0.3.0, a program to export Java object data.

3G goes live in the UK.

Java's Programming Ease Comes At A Price. Java's complex functionality forces companies to spend more on development.

Jakarta Commons Digester 1.4.1 released.

On March 3, 1978 — The first Van Halen nationwide tour began in Chicago, IL.

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Battlestar Galactica to Return. Looks like SciFi channel is redoing the classic series…

Bill — RSS virus?

Dot-com mixes business with pleasure. Salesforce.com and its CEO Marc Benioff.

Angel takes on Superman. Sounds better than Nick Cage.

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Java jigsaw. By all accounts, Java has revolutionized the software business in the seven years since Sun Microsystems invented the programming language.

IBM releases new Java Web Services tools on the 2003 WS SEK.

AurigaDoc 1.2b: Create Java Help and HTMl help(.chm).

Joe — New Blog Software nearing completion.

Jos — Eclipse 1 : JBuilder 0.

Ben — Announcing Weblog Hacks.

Choosing Strong Passwords. Passwords are the most common approach for identifying a user's identity.

jclassinfo 0.5, Java Class Information Extractor.

Code your way to a free degree. A online competition to test the skills of budding programmers is being use to entice youngsters to study computer science.

Install OpenBSD on an Apple iBook.

On March 1, 1692 — In Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony the Salem witch trials began. Four women were the first to be charged.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica Enters New Era with Java Technology.

Quiz: Struts in Action.

MacBinary Toolkit for Java Updated.

Building a sample Web App with Struts, Part 2.

Dan — IKVM.NET.

Fred — Nokia Dev Studio J2ME 1.1 Install problems? No problems here.

Russ — Slashdotted Spanish Style: BarraPunto.

Cedric — Javadoc makes me sad.

Chuq — 9th Circuit refuses to review Pledge ruling.

Teamstudio announces Java audit tool upgrade. Edition 2 of the Analyzer for Java.

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jEdit 4.1 now available.

Giulio — PrologConsole, tuProlog and jEdit.

JFtp 1.06, a graphical FTP client.

Odyssey is no iPod, but its cheaper.

Supermarkets Check Out Self-Checkout. Nothing new. Our local Costco had a similar program in testing a couple years back.

FDA proposes ephedra warnings; ban possible. Xenadrine, Stacker 2… I tried them all… once. Energy boosters, yeah. Fat loss, nothing significant.

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SuperWaba 3.41, a Java Virtual Machine that can be run in Palm OS, Pocket PC, Windows CE and AppletViewer.

JNIWrapper 1.2 and WinPack released.

Simon — Extreme Programming Applied.

Patrick — My MVC is bigger than your's.

Dave — New Free SWT Desktop Blotter Control.

Joey — Latest Nightly Eclipse Re-Adds Editor Linkage.

Wireless portable keyboard for Pocket PCs. Using the IR port.

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Latest ID theft scam: fake job listings.

Hacker hacking could be legal. Striking back at computers that are attacking a company could be legal under federal nuisance laws.

California dreamin' of Net sales tax. California is considering taxing e-commerce.

Understanding LDAP (part 1).

PDF and Java, an overview of using Java to interact with PDF files.

Playboy seeks latte ladies. Starbucks' baristas to pose nude.

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I just got off the phone with my mom. The surgery lasted about 4 hours, and she seems to be doing quite well.

The pain appears to be much more manageable than the first time around. She actually sounded very upbeat.

The surgeon hasn't visited her yet; we'll know more then.

J2SE 1.4.1_02 is out! Downloading it right now…

David — blojsom 1.4 … plugins, aggregation, and categories.

Neill — launching javaw properly from dos bat file, and other simple tips..

Danny — SVG View of Blogosphere.

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Joe — Weather.com officially sucks.

jtopas, Java tokenizer and parser tools.

Top 10 e-commerce security flaws exposed. Web server flaws, poor authentication mechanisms…

Pentagon spy database moves forward. A controversial data-mining project aimed at compiling electronic dossiers on Americans.

Matt — Struts-Resume 0.6 Released!

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DoJ cracks down on piracy. How long until the use of any MOD chips will be prohibited?

Henri — simple-jndi v0.4.

Glen — Hibernate + XDoclet = Yeah, Baby, Yeah!

Jamit, the Java Access Modifier Inference Tool can be used on Java class-files to infer tighter access modifiers.

JSAP, the Java-based Simple Argument Parser.

Matt — Taglibs Standard 1.0.3 Released.

Dave — Hypothetically Speaking…

Attribute Changer 5.0 Beta 2 Released.

Is it finally time for the videophone? The “#” key on your telephone is actually a holdover from AT&T's ill-fated videophone plans.

Jonas emailed me about Gabe's TypOmeter, a utility which measures how much you are typing, and the speed you are typing with. Thanks!

Java Performance Tuning Newsletter, no. 27.

Ted — Effective Enterprise Java (Architecture): Decide if vendor-neutrality is important to you.

Fifty years ago, on Feb. 28, 1953, scientists James D. Watson and Francis HC Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule that contains the human genes.

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I am no longer a FontBitch. However, I am still a Comments and Blogroll Snob, Trackback Impaired, and of course, the mother of all Link Whores.

Luke — Checked Exceptions suck?

Anonymous Coward — JUnit testing in Eclipse.

Chris — blueTools.

FCC Gets Earful on Media Ownership Limits. Public comments favor status quo.

Billionaires' fortunes dwindle. Media mogul Oprah Winfrey joins the billionaires club.

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Russ — Google Domain Names? and The Least Used Key On Your Keyboard.

Judging by their label fading, the 10 most used keys on my keyboard are:

1. Enter
2. .
3. /
4. C
5. N
6. '
7. I
8. S
9. E
10. D

IBM offering developer products subscription similar to MSDN. IBM has broadened its developerWorks Toolbox subscription service.

Emmanuel — Another interesting java book…

Matt — Jason doesn't like my Validator that matches two fields and Tivo and OS X.

O'Reilly publishes second Samba guide. Using Samba, Second Edition.

MPAA sues online auctioneers. Lawsuits filed over pirated software, movies.

Ted — A great description of IntelliJ IDEA.

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Programming JMS applications using AXIS.

Web services security, Part I.

Quartz 1.0.5, an enterprise-class job scheduler for integration with stand-alone java applications and full-blown J2EE applications.

Five Years Later, Newton Still Going Strong. “Today is the five year anniversary of Apple's cancellation of the Newton platform.”

Emmanuel — New Struts book comming.

Dong — Xalan and Java 1.4.

Patrick — Deploying web apps with Ant - Using Antelope w/ SSH and SCP.

Matt — Windows Trick o' the Day.

Dominic — Productivity in the workplace as a Java developer.

Charles — Apple Sucks (Well, NSAppleEventDescriptor does, anyway).

Ted — Effective Enterprise Java (Architecture): Optimize Optimally.

Warner — Some Cool OS X tools.

JCE taglib for JSP 0.9, an open source JCE (strong encryption) JSP taglib.

Where's the Remote? A Tiny New Answer. Griffin Mobile Total Remote.

Wireless Pen Camera — James Bond would Love One Of Those.

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JIVE, Java Interactive software Visualization Environment.

International Standard Paper Sizes.

Adult pictures and logos for your phone.

Live Nude Cats. Thanks, Jim.

Matt — How do you manage your Constants? I use a Constants.java file too.

Dominic — javablogs.com talk at TheServerSide Symposium.

David — Mobile blogging how-to guide.

Comcast posts narrower loss on higher revenue. My new digital cable company. Bleh.

R. I. P. Buffy. Gellar spells it out in interview.

JAMIT, the Java Access Modifier Inference Tool can be used on Java class-files to infer tighter access modifiers.

Update Tool for Java Applications. A mechanism that enables easy upgrading for users of Java-based desktop applications.

IzPack 3.0.6, an installation software based on the Java technology

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Fred — IMEI Pain in J2ME.

Dominic — Log4j books.

Brent — Apple going in the wrong direction?

Stuart — RSS Business Card.

Warner — Call for comparisons.

Darren — An embarrassment of riches.

e.Digital's new 15GB MP3 jukebox. e.Digital's Treo 15.

It's a headset. And a camera.  The HS-1C works with Nokia's 7210, 6610, and 6100 phones.

Russ — I Forgot the Moblogger Source!

Ben — of Cigars and hypertext.

Matthew — Give Russell a new job.

Access Modifier Eclipse Plug-in 1.0.0. A tool allowing the user to change the visibility of Java elements in Eclipse.

US seizes bootleg games site. isonews.com.

Microsoft Patches Critical Windows Me Flaw. Buffer overruns are detected in Microsoft's Windows Me Help and Support Center.

'Mr. Rogers' dies at age 74. Rogers died at his home in Pittsburgh.

Carlos — Microsoft Managed Using Java.

James — Insectivore (Eclipse plugin).

Mark — In brief: 27 Feb 2003.

Ted — Uh, oh…..

Dirty Deeds.

February 27, 1827 — The first Mardi Gras celebration was held in New Orleans.

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Brent — Big Cat 1.0 Released.

EJB Free and Open Source Tools Summary. Open source J2EE servers, “Free” J2EE servers and Free EJB 2.0 development tools.

Eric — Eclipse RC1 Good to Go.

Java Web Services Developer Pack and Tutorial 1.1 Released.

U.S. picks AT&T for telemarketing list. The national “do not call” list.

Java Email Server 1.2.2, a SMTP POP3 email server.

fastUtil 2.51, fast and compact type-specific maps and sets for Java.

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Free midlets. 31 free midlets (Chess, Checkers, Go, etc.) from Spruce Technologies.

Glen — FastCompany on .Net vs Java.

Scott — Put a Dynamic ClassLoader in the Core Java API.

Matthew — More than just code.

Matt — Struts Validator: Validating Two Fields Match.

Pelle — Mobile Commerce: How to get Paid.

James — Eclipse and JTest.

Marc — bleading edge.

Eddie — Class collisions and Java Tools for XP book.

David — ChronicleLite … A blogger.com client in Java.

Belkin debuts new iPod accessories. TuneCast Mobile FM Transmitter, iPod Case and iPod Leather Organizer.

Apple Releases iDisk Utility For Windows.

T-Shirt As Computer Screen. Wearable display prototype developed by France Telecom.

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Jakarta Commons JXPath 1.1 Beta 2 has been released.

Interview with Sun's CTO of Software. John Fowler.

Monitor Multitiered Apps in One Location.

Open a S.O.D.A. A simple interface for building object database queries dynamically in Java.

Review: JSTL in Action.

On Optimizing Service Orchestration. Think creatively to overcome the slower performance of Java-based Web services.

How do J2ME and .Net CF compare? Let the mobile games begin, Part 1.

Tag, You're It. RFID technology provides fast, reliable asset identification and management.

Magic with Merlin: Java networking enhancements.

Review: Programming LEGO Mindstorms with Java.

Controlling Your Mac with AppleScript and Java.

Java Code Generator, an Eclipse plugin that automatically creates JavaBean source code according to MVC patterns, JSP, and templates.

Bossa Workflow System, a lightweight workflow engine written in Java..

Alan — I have some sit-down time with James Gosling.

David — Arguing with Scott Meyers.

Scott— FitNesse Acceptance Testing Framework.

Matt — Eclipse RC1.

Russ — It's Shipping! The Nokia 3650 Launches Today! and Mobile Commerce: How to Get Paid.

Costin — JMX console.

MySQL 4.0.11 released.

EclipseLauncher, a cross-platform Java based SWT/Swing workspace chooser for Eclipse.

Security watch. Wristwatch from Citizen with special built-in wireless authentication technology.

Pocket PC vs. Palm, round 2.

Sony Ericsson's P800: Worth the wait.

BEA Finds a Friend's Hand in Its Pocket. Sun will be giving away application and integration servers that BEA sells for a living.

Nokia phones vulnerable to DoS attack. Hole related to processing of vCards.

February 26, 1815— Napoleon escaped from the Island of Elba. He then began his second conquest of France.

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Wi-Fi Alliance sets July as tentative date for 802.11g interoperability testing.

Brent — Huevos 1.1.

Matt— HTML Characters. You may also want to check this one out.

Matt — CVS is prior-art for Interwoven's patent (#6505212).

David — blojsom's plugin API and XML-RPC support … it's here!

Microsoft Backs DVD+RW Alliance. Current members include Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Sony.

Toyota, Fuji Heavy to tackle telematics together. On-board wireless information services.

Joe — A free C/C++ book.

Marvel Sues Over Sony Pictures Spider-Man Deal. A press release issued by the company did not specify against whom the suit was filed…

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Ben — CVS2RSS.

Brian — Modeling Categories with Classes.

Matt — My Web Standards Compaign. Target 1 = Jakarta.

Russ — Quantifying The Linkage.

Bare Bones Software axes BBEdit Lite.

Java 1.4.1 Final… Soon. Apple will finally release Java 1.4. Only took more than a year!

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Russell — I am a Media Whore.

Scott — Cool HTML Tree Graph Generator.

Alan — Naming Java Classes Without a 'Manager'.

Sharp's new LCD is very sharp. 19", 22.5mm thick, 700:1 ratio.

Scripters in the Enterprise. Don't overlook the skills your best scripters bring to the enterprise environment.

Unwrap the package statement's potential. Minimize project complexity and maximize code reuse.

Nominate the best Java products in 10 categories. JavaWorld Editors' Choice Awards Nomination.

Java Apache Commons Logging bridges multiple solutions. An introduction to Commons Logging.

A Shift in Platform Choices Favors Java. Apparently, the mobile device sector just can't live without its Java.

Emmanuel — theserverside.com/symposium.

Dominic — LiteWebServer: 1MB Tomcat-based web server.

Greg — Monitoring JVM With JRockit's Console.

Kief — Java profiling.

Joe — A C and C++ book that will improve your Java code….

Zaval Light-Weight Visual Components Library 3.3.0. An alternative to AWT-based GUI interfaces for the PersonalJava platform.

Citibank gags crypto researchers. Injunction on security experts who claim to have uncovered serious failings in the system banks use to secure ATM PIN codes

Zippo lights a flame under copycat makers. The Zippo lighter is easily recognizable: a rectangular metal shell with beveled edges and a gently curved flip-top…

Jason — Turning a ResultSet into XML..

On February 25, 1991 — During the Persian Gulf War, 28 Americans were killed when an Iraqi Scud missile hit a U.S. barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.