There's a new JSR for JAXP 1.3, which includes some of the things I'm sure we've all thought along the lines of "why the he** isn't this part of the standard APIs?" Namely XPath, XML-to-Java mapping, and schema validation (I hate specifying properties for a DocumentBuilderFactory etc. and really hope that the new schema validation API provides something else...).

Nice, but not worth an IPO, I think :)

(thanks, Tim)

I've been talking about getting my bed, sofa, chairs, kitchen, bathroom, bed, did I already mention sofa?, connected to a WLAN for probably a year or so. Well, today I finally acted on the intent and got me a 54mbps wireless router to hook up on my ADSL line and a corresponding PC card for "my" laptop (read: my girlfriend's laptop). The work laptop has WLAN built-in and the desktop machine can be hooked up to one of the RJ-45 slots in the router (that is, assuming that I first plug it into a power outlet and see whether I can revive it from a year-long coma...) so that was all I needed.

Configuring the damn thing was pure hell. In total, I spent something like 5 hours to get it all up and running -- most of that trying to get encryption working. In the end, the solution I finally managed to figure out was to reboot the router after enabling encryption. Of course, nowhere in that particular configuration screen did it say that I need to reboot in order to activate the changed settings...