Martin Fowler blogs on UML 2.0, what he calls Unwanted Modeling Language, at least for sketchers like me.
Well, at least according to JSF. I’m not so sure, 6 million users of ICQ sounds like a really low number. Anyways, Jabber is a way better technology compared to ICQ so I hope it’s true and that Jabber will containue growing.

There are two days left until Sweden will vote on membership in EMU. All posters that showed Anna Lindh has been taken down.
Anna Lindh, the Swedish foreign minister died this morning after the attac against her yesterday.
Eric Gunnerson points to a three part interview (more to come) with Anders Hejlsberg, the main architect behind C#. Lots of interesting details about the birth of C#.
Geronimo, the Apache J2EE project has released it’s first state of the project address. Judging from the report and the activity and quality on the mailing list it looks really promising. Rickard Öberg seems to think so too.
Eclipse 3.0 M3 has been released. Still missing folding in the editor but besides that it’s the No 1 Java IDE.
Sun is showing of some screen shots of their upcoming desktop, called Mad Hatter. That is one ugly skin! Come on Sun, is that really the best you can do? With Aero and Aqua around you smell of a mid-90’s system.
Open SVG Viewer is an open source project that is building yet another SVG viewer in Java. Not sure which of the SVG profiles they aim at.