Occasional Thoughts

Here is the list of sessions from the time planer that I plan to attend:

When you are interested about client server architectures via HTTP people you surely know the traditional way of using Web Services via SOAP. But I bet you have already heard about REST. In case you have some open questions about the later I can recommend the following articles that have been written by Stefan Tilkov for InfoQ.

Start with A Brief Introduction to REST. That gives you a little bit more than just the basic insight. As every REST introduction however this may leave some questions open. This is where his next article fills the gap: Addressing Doubts about REST

Once again stumbled over this stupid proxy settings of thunderbird

First I suspected my mail server to be down.

All of a sudden I was no longer able to download emails - from any account, from any server - just with Thunderbird while KMail was working perfectly. Even sending emails is no longer working.

Well, unlike Konqueror where a similar checkbox uses the proxy server only for reasonable protocols, like FTP and HTTPS, in Thunderbird it is also used for SOCKS and your HTTP proxy most probably does not understand SOCKS like most pure HTTP proxies.

So, in case you can't connect to any Mail server, check if this checkbox is enabled.

Jaclin 0.1 is a small tool to answer some questions about a compiled Java class file:

• With which Java runtime is the class compatible?
• Are debug infos available in the compiled class?
• What kind of debug infos are compiled in?
• Is it really a Java class at all?

Please see the project page for more information and download links.

If you have questions or comments feel free to add them to this posting below.