This week in the JavaWorld developer forums

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Aug 2, 20071 min

Week of July 30th.

Featured discussion:

Does the desktop still matter?

Are fast, flashy Ajax-style applications destined to supplant desktop apps? You be the judge …

Also see:

Java, Flash, or Ajax? How to choose …

Your choices for building rich, portable browser-based applications are (briefly) Java, Flash, or Ajax. A JavaWorld reader poses 6 factors to consider before committing to any one of these development alternatives.

More discussion this week:

What burns you up about SOA?

Readers sound off about “service-oriented ambiguity” and name their pet peeves when implementing real-world SOA.

Technical Q&A in the JavaWorld developer forums:

Count the ways to resolve a Java OutOfMemory error

Trouble porting a Web service to JBoss 4.2.0

Need help throwing an exception…

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