Enabling IPv6 in Linux  IPv6 is coming. In fact, you can encourage its adoption by using it right now. Ibrahim Haddad explains the ideas behind, and justifications for IPv6 and demonstrates how to support it on a Linux server.   [ Linux DevCenter]

Developing Custom Tag Libraries as Tag Files  This excerpt from Hans Bergsten's JavaServer Pages, 3rd Edition describes implementing custom tag library actions as plain text files and packaging them as tag libraries that can be used in JSP pages.   [ONJava.com]

Features
Getting Started with XForms  Bob DuCharme provides an implementation-centered guide to using XForms, the new W3C forms technology for the web.   [XML.com]

XML Q&A;
From Word to XML  In the year's last Q&A; column John E. Simpson discusses some of the issues surrounding the conversion of MS Word documents to XML.   [XML.com]

Choosing a Compiler: The Little Things  Let's face it -- there's nothing sexy about the topic of cross compilers. But little differences between compilers can make a big difference in the success or failure of your software project. Michael Barr, author of Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++, looks at the criteria for selecting the right C/C++ cross compiler for your project.   [O'Reilly Network]

Cooking with ADO.NET  O'Reilly's recently released ADO.NET Cookbook contains over 150 solutions and best practices for everyday dilemmas. This week, we're excerpting three recipes from the book that show how to asynchronously update data in a database, how to protect login credentials during network transmissions, and how to enforce a business rule with column expressions.   [ONDotnet.com]

Security Alerts
Apache Regex Problems  Noel Davis looks at problems in Apache, mod_php, XDM, Goahead Web Server, Xerox Document Center, SARA, phpBB2, OpenBB, SquirrelMail, and pServ.   [ Linux DevCenter]

The Best of ONLamp 2003  This year, 2003, was a big one for ONLamp. With 200+ articles under our belt, what did we like best? Where are we going next year?   [ONLamp.com]

USB Video Conferencing with Panther  iSights are great for video conferencing ... if you have one, that is. But is there a way to use that old USB webcam with iChat AV? Wei-Meng Lee figured it out and shows you how in this article.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Sliding into WebDAV  The Jakarta Slide project provides client- and server-side WebDAV capabilities for Java, effectively turning an HTTP connection into a remote file system. Andrew Anderson takes a look.   [ONJava.com]

Features
XML 2003 Conference Diary  Eric van der Vlist, author of O'Reilly's books on RELAX NG and W3C XML Schema, shares his personal view of the recent XML 2003 Conference.   [XML.com]

Jon Udell
The Social Life of XML  In this write-up of his keynote address to the XML 2003 conference, Jon Udell explains that the key thing about XML is the way anXML document can become a shared construct, a tangible thing that processes and people can pass around and interact with.   [XML.com]

Object Caching in a Web Portal Application Using JCS  One way to improve server-side performance is to cache data instead of generating it over and over again. Srini Penchikala takes a look at how the Java Caching System makes this possible.   [ONJava.com]

PHP Foundations
MySQL Crash Course  Almost every serious web application uses a relational database to store its data. At some point, you'll have to learn how to use them. John Coggeshall explains the basics of relational databases with MySQL.   [ PHP DevCenter]

Cooking with Apache  The recently released Apache Cookbook contains over 100 solutions to problems that webmasters, web administrators, programmers, and anyone who works with Apache have come upon at one time or another. This week we've excerpted sample recipes from the book that contain solutions to problems with virtual hosting, highlighting PHP source, and enabling WebDAV.   [ Apache DevCenter]

The Interpretation of Dreams: An Explanation of the Electric Sheep Distributed Screen Saver  Electric Sheep is a distributed screen saver that harnesses idle computers into a render farm with the purpose of animating and evolving artificial life forms. Scott Draves will present a session on Electric Sheep at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference.   [openp2p.com]

Ruby's Present and Future  Ruby's been around for ten years and continues to grow in popularity and usage. What's next for the language? That's just one of the questions answered at the 2003 Ruby Conference. Mike Stok was there. He covers all three days of the conference.   [ONLamp.com]

An Unencrypted Look at FileVault  FileVault has generated as much discussion as any of Panther's new features. Is it right for you? François Joseph de Kermadec unlocks this new feature and shows you around.   [MacDevCenter.com]

2003 OSDir.com Editor's Choice Awards in Open Source  Find out who our choices are for OSDir.com's first annual Editor's Choice in Open Source Awards.  [OSDir.com]

My labor of love during this Christmas and New Year by Satya Komatineni

JXPath to rescue! by Michael Nascimento Santos

Year end notes by Daniel H Steinberg

Responses to last month, and December Java Performance News by Jack Shirazi

This may be a stupid question, but by Daniel H Steinberg

The End of the Beginning? by Ron Hitchens

A simple method call: that is all it takes by Michael Nascimento Santos

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