JavaScript syntax in many ways is actually more like Java’s than some of these languages, but its prototype-based approach to object-orientation is very different.

However, the Java Platform provides a data structure that greatly simplifies the use of reference objects like this, called the java.util.WeakHashMap class.

This article first introduces Java SE’s SAAJ API for working with SOAP-based Web services at a lower level. It then discusses how to create a JAX-WS handler to log the flow of SOAP messages.

Business Objects, maker of business-intelligence software, has announced its intent to join the Eclipse Foundation and incorporate Eclipse open-source programming tools into several of its products.