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Source: ZDNet.com

Apache generates Java buzz with Beehive 1.0

“The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced the release of Beehive 1.0, its component toolkit for J2EE and Struts. Beehive is aimed at making it easier to develop Web applications in Java by reducing the amount of coding needed to produce a working application.”

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Focus on RFID

Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is the next big thing for automated enterprise. With its 99% success rate in the industry, it has got attention of the software giants. According to ORACLE, RFID is the biggest shift in the supply chain management since the Internet.

Here’s what you need to know about RFID:

The Definition and FAQs:

Industry News & Resources:

At Microsoft.com:

 

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BizTalk Orchestrations, Business Rules, and Context Properties

Richard Seroter describes a potential problem when creating BizTalk Server messages with context properties and then sending them into the BizTalk Rules Engine.

Read Richard Seroter’s Blog for all the details.

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My Urdu Poetry

It’s been quite some time now when I started to express myself in form of poetry. I was in my intermediate, in Urdu Science College, when I said my first verse – can’t remember what it was, but I was wondered to have a gifted sense of auzaan (balancing in regular urdu poetry) – since then, I use to say verses and gazals (poems).

These verses have become my trademark:

وہ بھی دل ہے کہ پتھر میں خُدا ڈھونڈتا ہے
یہ بھی کافر ہے کہ پتھر ہی جُدا ڈھونڈتا ہے

تیرا چہرہ، تیری آنکھیں، تیری مورت ہے
میری تنھایٔ خوبصورت ہے

میں بھی جیتا ہوں کسی کی خاطر
جو کبھی ہارا نہیں میرے لیٔے

I’m a deep admirer of Iqbal, not that because my name is Sohail Iqbal, but I really have a high regard for his thinking and contributions for reconstruction of Muslim Ummah, through his thoughtful poetry, writings and speeches. As he says:

آشنا اپنی حقیقت سے ہو اے دہقاں ذرا
دانہ تو، کھیتی بھی تو، باراں بھی تو، حاصل بھی تو

آہ! کس کی جستجو آوارہ رکھتی ہے تجھے؟
راہ تو، رہرو بھی تو، رہبر بھی تو، منزل بھی تو

کانپتا ہے دل تیرا اندیشہء طوفاں سے کیا
ناخدا تو، بحر تو، کشتی بھی تو، ساحل بھی تو

Recently, I read Mohsin Naqvi’s “Azaab-e-Deed”, a beautiful collection of his poetry. Checkout a few verses from his gazal:

ہم سے مت پوچھ راستے گھر کے
ہم مسافر ہیں زندگی بھر کے

گر جنوں مصلحت نہ اپنا ۓ
سر سے رشتے بہت ہیں پتھر کے

Few of his azaad (free form) poems are so enthralling that even I started to think in free form of poetry, and even wrote my first azaad poems as well. So I can say that Mohsin Naqvi is responsible for out setting my azaad poetry.

Here’s one of my short azaad nazms:

اچھا لگنا سب کو اچھا لگتا ہے
تم کو کیسا لگتا ہے
جب مجھ کو اچھی لگتی ہو

See you soon,

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