The waiting is over folks. Cocoon 2.1 has finally been released. Check out the coocon web site for more.
Thats easy, the Apache Jakarta Commons HttpClient Project contains a URI class implementing Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) for you. No need to worry about URI handling anymore! Its probably best to brush up on RFC239 to best utilize this class, however.
Hint: Encoding reserved characters such as "/" is not a very good idea :-P Let the URI class take care of encoding for you.
The 9th annual LinuxTag is being held in Karlsruhe Germany between July 10th and 13th. Looking forward to it! Any Cocoon or Avalon people attending?
Its really great to see Linux advance into the market place and become seen as a viable alternative to Microsoft. I just came across a story on the formation of a Linux Consumer-Electronics Group to make Linux a more effective platform for consumer devices. More progress!
My favorite Linux distrubution is Debian even though I have been playing with Redhat at work recently. RPMs aint so bad once you get to know them though :-)