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Editor's Note
The right to choose
Dwight Deugo
Buzz
Philip J. Gill
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Real World Java
Predicting the Weather With a Scalable Java Application Server
Philip J. Gill
Strategic Weather Services Inc. provides short- and long-term weather forecasting and behavioral research services for business, industry, and consumers.
The system is rewritten entirely in Java using the Sapphire/Web application server. The Sapphire/Web platform is a framework for Java application development, and includes a set of development tools for building Java applications. At the back end is an Oracle relational database. It contains two databases, one with weather and the other with information on users, services, demographics, and statistics.