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Friday I was suppose to go to Montreal, the usual route over London Heathrow. Slightly concerned with the recent mishaps of the new Terminal 5, I actually managed to get to the good old Terminal 4 without much trouble. Little did I know, my trouble were just about to start. Canceled flight Yup, just 1 min. after entering Terminal 4 I learned that BA95 to Montreal was canceled. Inquiring at the help desk I experienced the deja-vu of being told that I had to go fetch my luggage, contact the ticket office and expect a layover. I had experienced another layover about 2 years ago so I pretty much knew what has coming... or so I though anyway. Heathrow, JFK or Newark My luggage was nowhere to be found, so I proceeded to the ticket counter and when it was my time to be served I was presented with the option og taking the same flight tomorrow, go to JFK in New York and a very short layover involving an early flight or go to Newark in New York and a longer layover involving a later flight. I t

Maybe it's caused by the passing of time, maybe it's because of its open nature or maybe it's simply because people like to make them up. In any event, few technologies in computing are as littered with acronyms as Java is. Just for fun, while eating lunch (yeah I know it's bad habit) I compiled a list off the top of my head of what an average developer might be subjected to, when tracking technologies in the Java space. AWT - Abstract Window Toolkit (UI) BGGA - Gilad Bracha, Neal Gafter, James Gosling, and Peter von der Ahe (Closures) CICE - Concise Instance Creation Expressions (Closures) EAR - Enterprise ARchive (Packaging) EDT - Event Dispatching Thread (Lingo) EJB - Enterprice Java Beans (Packaging/technology) FCM - First Class Methods (Closures) JAR - Java ARchive (Packaging) JAX-RPC - Java API for Xml-based Remote Procedure Call JAX-RS - The Java API for RESTful Web Services JAX-WS - Java API for Xml-based Web Services JAXB - Java Archtecture for Xml Binding JAXP