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Looking for somewhere to kick back now that the kids are gone? Here are the 20 best places to retire now, as ranked by Fortune magazine. They're grouped into five categories: sunny spots, small cities, big cities, foreign destinations and mountain towns.
(Sunny Spots) Santa Fe, N.M. -- This New Mexico arts town gets 325 days of sunshine per year, boats eight major golf courses in the area and is a stone's throw from a major mountain range.
Napa, Calif. -- Buy your own piece of wine country. Home prices are down 52% from their peak.
Sarasota, Fla. -- This longtime retiree favorite offers a lively art scene and educational opportunities on the Gulf, according to Fortune.
Sedona, Ariz. -- This New Age hub boasts great hiking and so-called vortex sites -- spots purportedly bathed in energy from the earth. Lows reach only the 50s in the winter.
(Small Cities) Charleston, S.C. -- Nicknamed the "Holy City" for its many churches and religious tolerance in the 1600s, Charleston's rich history has made it a popular destination for history buffs, according to Fortune.
Madison, Wis. -- Home to the University of Wisconsin, this Midwestern capital is a thriving, bike-friendly cultural mecca.
Hanover, N.H. -- Remote yet bustling, this New England college town is part of the Appalachian Trail and home to Dartmouth College.
Richmond, Va. -- This historic city is two hours from Washington, D.C., and gaining a rep for its culture and cuisine.
(Mountain towns) Bend, Ore. -- Many retirees are flocking to Bend for its spectacular views, wide array of outdoor sports and relaxed vibe.
Burlington, Vt. -- Known for its skiing, this Vermont town also has four colleges and a vibrant art scene.
Fort Collins, Colo. -- Great skiing isn't far away from this bustling Front Range college town. There's also lots of golf.
Sun Valley, Idaho -- A glittery celeb favorite, this area is a mountain paradise but doesn't come cheap.
(Big Cities) New York -- The cost of living is high here, but no other place on the planet is filled with more activity: Broadway shows, any cuisine imaginable and classes and parks galore.
Boston -- With some of the best colleges and universities in the world, Boston is tops for health care, education and culture, according to Fortune.
New Orleans -- As Fortune magazine puts it, if hurricanes (the cocktail kind) and zydeco don't keep you young, we can't help you.
San Francisco -- The City by the Bay is expensive, but Fortune predicts values will probably rise further amid the IPO craze.
(Foreign Destinations) Cuenca, Ecuador -- This city offers temperate weather, beautiful architecture and modern health care, all for a fraction of the cost of living in the U.S.
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Denial on FoxNovember 08,2012Somewhere in the middle of the election-night returns, I stopped flipping through the channels watching the parade of giddy anchors, jacked up on caffeine and infographics and settled on Fox News Channel. It wasnt a partisan act, though I imagine Fox racked up lot of gloating liberal viewers Tuesday night. This was a matter of entertainment: On a night of far less tension than expected, this was where you got the high emotions.
Hours before the network declared for Obama, the hint of despair was palpable, though the expression of it varied by personality. Peggy Noonan described a subdued feeling; Liz Cheney groused that the Republican bench was better than Elizabeth Warren. Sarah Palin, remote from Wasilla, declared this a perplexing time for many of us right now.
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That battle overshadowed the hand-wringing over messaging gone wrong: the harsh rhetoric on immigration, the importance of womens issues, the image problem caused by certain far-right candidates, the notion that maybe the country was more liberal than Brit Hume had previously thought.
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Arizona Fall League TTM Requests Update #2
Several weeks ago I blogged about the through the mail (TTM) autograph requests I was planning to send off to players during the Arizona Fall League. At the end of the post I stated that I was going to be publishing a blog post every time I received back a couple autographs. Having received two more TTM autograph requests since my last update, I figured I'd post another update:
Jorge Bonifacio is the Royals' number five prospect, and the number eighty-nine overall prospect in all of baseball. Batting .298 with 4 home runs and 57 RBI's this past season, Bonifacio still has a ways to go before he's big-league-ready, but at just 20 years old, he has a lot of promise. Bonifacio should become an everyday player for the Royals in the next couple of years.
Andrew Heaney is the Marlins' number two prospect, and the number fourty-eight overall prospect in all of baseball. Unfortunately, he smeared his last name of the autograph, but after going 9-3 with a 1.60 ERA this past season, this is an autograph (even though it's smeared) I'm glad to have. Heaney is going to be a great pitcher for the Marlins fairly soon; joining their other young Ace, Jose Fernandez.
This might end up being the final autograph update post I do until Spring Training. (If I don't get one back before the end of this year, it will be.) Things are slowing down, and the odds that I'll get anymore autographs from players in the 2013 Arizona Fall League are getting slimmer. But you never know. I got an autograph from Kris Medlen thirteen months after I sent it during the 2011 Spring Training, so it's always possible.
I still have autograph requests out for Corey Seager, Austin Hedges, Kyle Crick, Jorge Soler, Delino DeShields, Jorge Alfaro, Taylor Lindsey, Adalberto Mejia, Kyle Parker, James Ramsey, Kris Bryant and Colin Moran. When/if I get any of those back, assuming it's before the end of the year, I'll be sure to post another update. Though, there's no guarantee I'll get any more back at all.
Arizona Fall League TTM Requests Update
Around a month ago I blogged about the through the mail (TTM) autograph requests I was planning to send off to players during the Arizona Fall League. At the end of the post I stated that I was going to be publishing a blog post every time I received back a few autographs, and now that I've successfully gotten back some of the requests I sent I figured I'd go ahead and type this entry up. Of the seventeen total TTM's I sent off, I've received three of them back, with them being from:
C.J. Cron is the Angels' number two overall prospect, and he proved why this past season. Batting .274 with 14 home runs and 83 RBI's to go along with 36 doubles, Cron is well on his way to the Majors, though it may take another season or two. Things are looking very promising for Cron, and it should be interesting to see how he performs next year.
Stephen Piscotty is the Cardinals' number seven prospect, and becomes the first player I've ever had sign a card in purple (magic marker?). Still fairly young, at 22 years old, Piscotty has a good chance at making it to the big leagues. He hit 15 home runs and drove in 59 runs in 2013 to go along with a .295 batting average. Piscotty is a player worth watching down the road.
Addison Russell is the Athletics' number one prospect and the number seventeen overall prospect in all of baseball. Russell participated in the 2013 Futures game, up in New York City, and is sure to see his fair share of Major League All-Star games in his future, assuming he pans out as predicted. Batting .269 with 17 home runs and 60 RBI's this past season, Russell is going to be a special player.
An interesting side note, Addison Russell doesn't normally sign through the mail — telling me he signs around one random thing a week — but he graciously agreed to sign something for me. He truly seems to be a great guy, and I'm going to be posting an interview I did with him sometime over the next month or two. So check back for that.
I still have autograph requests out for Andrew Heaney, Corey Seager, Jorge Bonifacio, Austin Hedges, Kyle Crick, Jorge Soler, Delino DeShields, Jorge Alfaro, Taylor Lindsey, Adalberto Mejia, Kyle Parker, James Ramsey, Kris Bryant and Colin Moran. When/if I get any of those back I'll be sure to post another update. Though, there's no guarantee I'll get any more back at all.
Arizona Fall League TTM Autograph Requests
The 2013 MLB postseason is well underway, and it sure has been exciting so far. A lot of unexpected things are sure to happen in the coming weeks, but for now I'm not going to discuss any of it. For this blog post I'm focusing solely on the Arizona Fall League. More specifically, through the mail (TTM) autograph requests that I'm sending out to various participating players.
Taking place every October/November — this year it's October 8th through November 16th — the Arizona Fall League (AFL) gives top Minor League players who didn't get a full season of playing time, for one reason or another, a chance to show their organization what they can do, as well as provide them with a little more baseball experience.
I usually only send off autograph requests in March, for Spring Training, and October, for the Arizona Fall League. Some people send requests to players throughout the season, however, I've never really wanted to do that — they're too busy going around from ballpark to ballpark. In Spring Training and the Arizona Fall League players stay in the same relative area for over a month; giving, in my mind, a better chance of success.
There is a ton of great talent in this year's Fall League, but I'm not sending to all of them. If a player has a chance of coming to play the Bulls or Mudcats — my local MiLB teams — I don't want to send to them. A good example of that being Byron Buxton. He's participating in the AFL and was the 2013 MiLB Player of the Year, however, in addition to the unlikelihood that he would sign TTM, he could come to Durham with Rochester in the next year or two. So there's really no point in wasting a card.
Last year I sent out fifteen auto requests and received back nine of them. That's a fairly decent return as far as TTM's go. This time around, I'm sending out seventeen, to players such as Addison Russell, Andrew Heaney, C.J. Cron, Delino DeShields and Colin Moran — all of which are on the top 100 prospects list — among multiple others.
The plan is to post an update every time I receive back a few autographs, as I did this year during Spring Training; assuming I get any autographs back at all. So look out for that over the course of the next few months.


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Feels Like The First Time
No, no, no, not that! Get your heads out of the gutter! In anticipation of the upcoming season, I was reminiscing about the blossoming of my love for the game, and ultimately the first baseball game I ever attended.
I spent my formative years in rural northeastern Pennsylvania. Well, at that time it was rural – not so much anymore. This was back in the days pre-cable, pre-satellite, pre-anything except good old-fashioned broadcast television. We were pretty much equidistant from both Philadelphia and New York, so the team you ended up rooting for was pretty much determined by which TV station your antenna could pick up (I know you young'uns out there are probably having a hard time imagining such archaic technology😉 ).
Some people could only get Philadelphia stations. Some could only get New York stations. Some poor souls could get practically none at all. My family was apparently blessed with the ideal location, as we could get both! This led to an early schism in our household – I rooted for the Phillies,
but my sister ended up following the Mets.
Or as I so lovingly teased her, the Mutts.
So the two girls in the family would argue over which team to watch (oddly enough, our younger brother didn't even like baseball, so he didn't care). I'm pretty sure the only reason my sister watched the Mets was because she had the hots for Lee Mazzilli, though she will deny that. Note Lee's nifty late-'70's hairstyle.
Let's fast-forward now through my high-school and college years, when I regrettably succumbed to the peer pressure that it wasn't "cool" for girls to like sports. And since there were no MLBlogs at the time, of course I didn't know that there actually were a lot of female baseball fans out there. I guess none of you went to my school – oh well.
So finally, two years out of college, at the ripe old age of 23, I finally get to attend my first major league game. Yay!
May 15, 1987. The Padres are playing the Phillies at everybody's favorite stadium to bad-mouth, the Vet. A guy I had recently met asked me out on a date – yay! To go see the Phillies – double yay! But I was recovering from having my appendix removed – not yay. He also didn't believe in buying tickets ahead of time – double not yay. We got to the stadium and he bought what were actually pretty decent seats from an "unofficial ticket salesman" in the parking lot, and the view from our seats was pretty much like this:
Not too bad! We settled in to watch the game, and now here comes the memorable part. Sometime in the middle innings, San Diego's catcher lofts a high foul pop toward the upper deck behind us. Everyone is craning around to see (except me – limited mobility from the appendix, you know), and it appears to be caught by someone in the first row or two up there.
But they dropped it!
As I look up to see the ball falling towards us, what seemed like dozens of hands are all reaching above me to try to catch the ball. All I could do was cringe, close my eyes, and cover my head to keep from being whacked unconscious. Then I heard voices asking "Where is it?", "Where'd it go?"
I opened my eyes to see, believe it or not, the ball nestled between my feet. All these years later, I still have it. Here it is:
The ball was off the bat of Benito Santiago, who went on to win the Rookie of the Year award that year,
and later played for the Phillies in 1996.
Sadly, I don't even remember the name of the guy that took me to the game (it was our one and only date). The Phillies won that game, 7-4, but would go on to finish fifth (out of six) in the NL East that year.
After that, my love for the game was back to stay. So thank you, whoever you are, for taking me out that night!
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Why would my mind be in the gutter about what you said….;-) I loved reading about how you fell in love with the game! Now can we play ball already!!!
Great story, Sue. I loved hearing how you became a fan. Aren't you glad to know there are so many of us she-fans out there now? Funny about you and your sister arguing over the Phillies and Mets and your brother not caring at all. Does she still root for them? If so, you two must have some sibling rivalry going on these days.
I don't know how "cool" it is for girls to like baseball at my school, but I've learned not to care, my friends sort of accept it! The funny part is, I know more about baseball than some of the guys. Your first ball game was a date, and I hope that my first date is a ball game! That's so cool that you got a ball at your first game too!
Julia – my husband told me he was tempted to leave a smartass comment about the title, but thankfully he doesn't have an mlb.com account!
Jane – I am certainly glad there are so many she-fans! I love that we have this forum to all share our stories. And no, my sister does not follow baseball anymore (her loss!).
Elizabeth – I think it's fantastic that you are comfortable enough with yourself to not care if others think it's cool or not. As a teenager, I wasn't so blessed. It took till I was in my 20's to gain that self-confidence. When that first date to a ballgame does come, be sure to let us all know about it!
I've had a lot of "those" dates at the ball park myself :O) Funny how the game is always more memorable than the guy!


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text: Kauffman Unveils Enhanced Growthology Blog with Sketchbook Video Featuring Renowned Blogger Tyler Cowen Release Date: 3/30/2012 Media Contact: Barbara Pruitt, 816-932-1288, firstname.lastname@example.com, Kauffman Foundation Kauffman Unveils Enhanced 'Growthology' Blog with Sketchbook Video Featuring Renowned Blogger Tyler Cowen Growthology.org now features more writers, more posts and more perspectives (KANSAS CITY, Mo.) March 30, 2012 – The Kauffman Foundation revealed enhancements to its blog, Growthology.org, to a room full of the nation's top economics bloggers today at the Foundation's fourth annual Economics Bloggers Forum in Kansas City, Mo., with the presentation of its latest "Sketchbook" video featuring renowned MarginalRevolution.com blogger, Tyler Cowen. In the Sketchbook, appropriately titled, "I'm a Blogger," Cowen explains how to be an effective blogger, which he says is not for everyone. "If you are going to have fresh material every day the switch has got to be 'on.' If you don't have something to say based on knowledge and study and thought, it's going to be tough going," says Cowen, who is professor of economics at George Mason University. "I deliberately try to subvert … expectations ... to force people to think about things in a new way." "The capacity to share more perspectives and insights, and to do so more often, is exactly why we expanded Growthology's content and stable of writers, and a video message from Tyler Cowen seemed a great way to announce it," says Robert E. Litan, Kauffman vice president of research and policy, who is one of three founding authors of Growthology. "We realized that the Foundation has this rich, untapped breadth and depth of expertise among our leaders and advisors, and Growthology provides the perfect vehicle for them." First launched in 2009, Growthology has served as a platform to share perspectives on faster economic growth, smart government policy and the expansion of human welfare. The enhanced blog content now covers a broader scope of issues such as advancing innovation, entrepreneurship and the economic growth of cities. Growthology will now feature a variety of Foundation experts who will write more frequent posts. The blog will continue to welcome posts from invited guests. More than 30 of the top economics bloggers attended the Foundation's fourth annual Economics Bloggers Forum where they discussed the state of the U.S. economy and policymakers at odds. To view "I'm a Blogger," visit www.growthology.org.


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According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, nearly every 10 days, a child dies from being left in a hot vehicle. About half of those kids were simply forgotten.
Leaving a child unattended in a closed vehicle can lead to heatstroke and can kill in minutes. So far this year, 19 child deaths from heatstroke have occurred in the United States.
That's a tragedy that can and should be avoided at all costs.
Never leave your child in a parked car alone, even if only for a minute and if the window is cracked. Also, never leave your child in the car with the engine running.
Make a habit of looking in the vehicle carefully – front and back seats – before locking the door and walking away. Also, make sure it's locked so your child cannot climb back inside by mistake.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Sauder Woodworking Co., of Archbold, Ohio, is recalling about 2 million television carts. The carts can tip over and injure children and adults when the cart and the television fall. Sauder has received 13 reports of these carts tipping over and the television falling. Two injuries have been reported. A 3-year-old girl suffered a skull fracture, and an adult woman suffered a bump to the head and a cut finger. The television carts being recalled are brown oak (model 5155), black oak (model 5055) or white oak (model 5251). The model number is not on the cart, but it is on the instruction booklet that came with the cart. Most of the carts have the name "Sauder" on the casters or on a metal plate on the inside of the cart's door. The carts measure 29.5 inches wide, 25 inches high with casters and 15.5 inches deep. The carts can hold a television and a VCR. The shelf holding the television swivels, and there is a bottom shelf with hinged double doors.Discount stores, home centers and furniture stores nationwide sold these television carts from March 1989 through September 1998 for about $35 to $49. The carts were sold ready-to-assemble. Consumers should remove their televisions and VCR's from the carts immediately and call Sauder toll-free at (888) 800-4590 between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. EDT Monday through Friday or access their web site at www.sauder.com. Sauder will help consumers identify if their cart is part of this recall, and send them a free repair kit. The repair kit will help prevent the cart from tipping over.
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Boy Scout beautifies Highland Lake's new fire house
July 27, 2011 —
Troop 102 Boy Scout Peter Vorstadt, a sophomore at Eldred High School, recently completed his Eagle Scout project at the new Highland Lake Fire House at 144 Highland Lake Road. The effort put into the beautification and landscaping of the area surrounding the new firehouse was lauded as an outstanding accomplishment and has caught the community's attention.
"A lot of donations and involvement from my friends and family made the project possible," said Peter. The project area that started off as nothing more than a heap of soil and rock has been transformed into a more pleasant setting. It now holds a flagpole, an informational sign built by Paul Palecek, benches, a flower bed and several crab apple trees. Peter publically thanked Mike Donnelly, Tom Donnelly and Miles Kuperus for their generous donations and support.
The project, which was approved by the Town of Highland in March, took several months to complete. "It took awhile, but the project was actually really fun, and it was nice of the community to reach out to the new fire house," said Peter. He hopes that the firemen and community members will enjoy the work he put into his project for years to come.
Originally, Peter chose the beautification of the new firehouse to be his Eagle Scout project because he wanted to enhance the community's appearance and help make it stand out. He said, "I felt like the community needed a sort of face." He explained that due to the close proximity of the towns, it is hard to tell them apart. "Someone could drive through Yulan, Eldred and Highland without even knowing they had just traveled through separate towns." The new landscape and informational sign at the firehouse is now sure to be an eye catcher for anyone passing though the area.
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Home List of Titles Application of domain specific heuristics to an innovative computer based assessment strategy
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/238286
- Title
- Application of domain specific heuristics to an innovative computer based assessment strategy
- Author(s)
- Farrell, Graham; Farrell, Vivienne
- Abstract
- Students undertaking summative and formative assessment are very much aware of the imperative of the outcome and often find themselves in a stressful situation with a high level of required concentration. Usability testing of assessment tool interfaces is hindered by the ability to sufficiently replicate the exam environment or to disrupt, watch or monitor a student while they are undertaking an exam or rely on their memories to reproduce their concerns at a later stage. This research demonstrates how a set of heuristics is adapted and redefined to enable an iterative approach to the improvement of a computer aided online assessment tool. The revised set of heuristics offers a tool for future developers to assist in the development of online assessment interfaces.
- Publication type
- Conference paper
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Source
- Proceedings of 'Integration, Interaction, Innovation, Immersion, Inclusion', the Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (OZCHI 2012), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 26-30 November 2012, pp. 123-129
- Publication year
- 2012
- Keyword(s)
- Assessment; Computer based assessment; Confidence measurement; Design; Domain specific heuristics; Experimentation; Heuristics; Innovation; MCQ; MCQCM; Multiple Choice Question assessment; Online assessment; Reliability
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- 9781450314381, 1450314384
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- Copyright © 2012 ACM.
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By Tom Huizenga • Jan 9, 2013
Originally published on January 10, 2013 10:50 am
While the new year is still fresh, let's take a look in the rearview mirror at some of the noteworthy happenings in the classical music world. Were you listening last year? See if you remember the big, and not-so-big, stories from 2012 in our quiz.
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Home List of Titles Safe from the start? An action research project on early intervention materials for children affected by domestic and family violence
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- Safe from the start? An action research project on early intervention materials for children affected by domestic and family violence
- Author(s)
- Spinney, Angela
- Abstract
- This paper first considers the impacts on children who have experienced domestic and family violence and consequential homelessness. This is followed by an account of an Australian qualitative research project, Safe from the Start, which was designed to identify and form a register of intervention activities and therapeutic play for affected young children aged up to six. The key finding of this innovative applied research, substantiated by the participatory evaluation, is that effective early intervention with such children can be conducted by non-specialised workers and parents, given the right training and tools.
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- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Institute for Social Research
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- Children and Society, Vol. 27, no. 5 (Sep 2013), pp. 397-405
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- 2013
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- 1605 Policy and Administration; 1607 Social Work; 1608 Sociology*
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- Children; Domestic violence; Family violence; Homelessness; Intervention; Safe from the Start
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- Wiley-Blackwell
- 0951-0605
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- Copyright © 2012 The Author(s). Children & Society copyright © National Children's Bureau and Blackwell Publishing Limited.
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Java and SOAP
Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of excerpts from "Chapter 5: Working with Complex Data Types" of Java and SOAP. This excerpt covers passing custom types as parameters.
As Java programmers, we certainly don't restrict ourselves to the classes found in the standard Java packages. A substantial part of our code exists as custom types, Java classes of our own creation that embody the functionality and characteristics of the systems we're building.
Consider the design of a Java class that contains all of the data necessary to specify a stock trade. This new class might contain the symbol for the stock being traded, the number of shares to trade, and an indication of the order type (buy or sell). When designing such a class, it's important to view it in the context of the larger system. That kind of analysis yields clues that can lead to decisions regarding the properties and behaviors to be given to the class. We all do this kind of work all the time; it's called software design. The result is a Java class that contains methods for accessing properties and behavior. Since SOAP is a data transport, we're interested in the properties of the class. That's what we want to transmit over the wire.
One common way to express the properties of a Java class is to use the JavaBeans design patterns. These patterns specify a naming convention to be used for the class's access methods. You may not be familiar with JavaBeans, but I bet you've seen this pattern many times. Here's how the property accessor pattern is described in the O'Reilly book Developing Java Beans:
The methods used for getting and setting property values should conform to the standard design pattern for properties. These methods are allowed to throw checked exceptions if desired, but this is optional. The method signatures are as follows:The existence of a matching pair of methods that conform to this pattern represents a read/write property with the name <PropertyName> of the type <PropertyType>. If only the get method exists, the property is considered to be read only, and if only the set method exists the property is considered to be write only. In the case where the <PropertyType> is boolean, the get method can be replaced or augmented with a method that uses the following signature:
public void set<PropertyName>(<PropertyType> value); public <PropertyType> get<PropertyName>( );
public boolean is<PropertyName>( );
In This Series
Working with Complex Data Types, Part 4
Working with Complex Data Types, Part 2
Working with Complex Data Types, Part 1
If you follow this pattern for naming property accessors, the accessor methods can be determined at runtime by using the Java reflection mechanism.[3] This is a convenient way for SOAP implementations to access the data values of a Java class instance in order to serialize the data in a SOAP message. It turns out that both Apache SOAP and GLUE take advantage of reflection. This means that all you need to do is follow a well-established naming convention, and you'll be well on your way to using custom classes in SOAP. Of course, there's a little more to it than that, so let's dig in.
First let's define a stock trade in terms of data that we want it to contain. It needs to have a stock symbol to represent the stock being traded; the symbol should be a string type element. It needs a
boolean indicator that specifies whether the order is buy or sell. Lastly, it needs an integer that contains the number of shares to be traded. (In a real-world application, it might also contain various security credentials, the names of the purchaser and the broker, and many other things. Alternatively, this ancillary data could be represented in other objects.) Here's what an XML schema snippet for the stock trade might look like:
<element name="StockTrade" type="StockTrade"/>
<complexType name="StockTrade">
<element name="symbol" type="xsd:string"/>
<element name="buy" type="xsd:boolean"/>
<element name="numshares" type="xsd:int"/>
Let's create a custom Java class for specifying a stock trade called
StockTrade_ClientSide. Normally I'd name this class
StockTrade, but I want to make it clear that I'll be using this class on the client side of the example. We'll be writing a similar class to be used on the server side that will have a corresponding name. I'm doing this to point out that you are not required to use the same Java class on both sides of the message transaction. In fact, it probably won't make sense to use the same class, and it often won't even be possible.
StockTrade_ClientSide has three read/write properties named
Buy, and
NumShares that represent the stock symbol, the buy/sell indicator, and the number of shares to trade, respectively.
package javasoap.book.ch5;
public class StockTrade_ClientSide {
String _symbol;
boolean _buy;
int _numShares;
public StockTrade_ClientSide( ) {
public StockTrade_ClientSide(String symbol,
boolean buy, int numShares) {
_symbol = symbol;
_buy = buy;
_numShares = numShares;
public String getSymbol( ) {
return _symbol;
public void setSymbol(String symbol) {
_symbol = symbol;
public boolean isBuy( ) {
return _buy;
public void setBuy(boolean buy) {
_buy = buy;
public int getNumShares( ) {
return _numShares;
public void setNumShares(int numShares) {
_numShares = numShares;
Now let's create a
StockTrade_ServerSide class to represent the stock trade on the server side. Just to be sure that this class is different from its client-side counterpart, let's eliminate the constructor that takes parameters. And for good measure, let's also change the names of the class variables and the order in which they appear.
package javasoap.book.ch5;
public class StockTrade_ServerSide {
int _shares;
boolean _buyOrder;
String _stock;
public StockTrade_ServerSide( ) {
public String getSymbol( ) {
return _stock;
public void setSymbol(String stock) {
_stock = stock;
public boolean isBuy( ) {
return _buyOrder;
public void setBuy(boolean buyOrder) {
_buyOrder = buyOrder;
public int getNumShares( ) {
return _shares;
public void setNumShares(int shares) {
_shares = shares;
We can add a new method to the
urn:BasicTradingService service called
executeStockTrade( ), which takes a stock trade as a parameter. The return value from this method is a string that describes the order. Here's the modified
BasicTradingService class. We can take advantage of the
executeTrade( ) method that already exists in this class. In the new method,
executeStockTrade( ), we build an
Object array from the three properties of the
trade parameter, and we pass that array to the
executeTrade( ) method.
package javasoap.book.ch5;
public class BasicTradingService {
public BasicTradingService( ) {
public String executeStockTrade(StockTrade_ServerSide trade) {
Object[] params = new Object[3];
params[0] = trade.getSymbol( );
params[1] = new Integer(trade.getNumShares( ));
params[2] = new Boolean(trade.isBuy( ));
return executeTrade(params);
public String[] getMostActive( ) {
// get the most actively traded stocks
String[] actives = { "ABC", "DEF", "GHI", "JKL" };
return actives;
public int getTotalVolume(String[] stocks) {
// get the volumes for each stock from some
// data feed and return the total
int total = 345000;
return total;
public String executeTrade(Object[] params) {
String result;
try {
String stock = (String)params[0];
Integer numShares = (Integer)params[1];
Boolean buy = (Boolean)params[2];
String orderType = "Buy";
if (false == buy.booleanValue( )) {
orderType = "Sell";
result = (orderType + " " + numShares + " of " + stock);
catch (ClassCastException e) {
result = "Bad Parameter Type Encountered";
return result;
To deploy the service, we need to map the custom type to the Java class that implements that type. We need to give the custom type a name and qualify it with an appropriate namespace. This is not unlike the process we'd use to declare a service.
This mapping takes place in the deployment descriptor, within the
isd:mappings section. Here's the deployment descriptor we'll use to deploy the service in Apache SOAP:
methods="getTotalVolume getMostActive executeTrade executeStockTrade">
xmlns:x="urn:BasicTradingService" qname="x:StockTrade"
This is important, so let's summarize the mapping before we go any further. The mapping of a custom type to a Java class is associated with an encoding style as well as a fully qualified type name. A Java class that implements the custom type is specified, as well as the utility classes used to perform serialization and deserialization. Now let's look at the details of the example.
Most of the deployment descriptor should look familiar; it's similar to the ones shown in Chapter 4. The difference is that we now have an entry in the
isd:mappings section. There is one entry,
isd:map, that describes the mapping of the stock trade type to the
StockTrade_ServerSide class.
isd:map element has no data; all the information is supplied as attributes. The first attribute,
encodingStyle, specifies the encoding style associated with the serialization of the type. Next, a namespace identifier,
x, is assigned the value
urn:BasicTradingService. I'm using the name of the service as the namespace qualifier for the custom type; however, you don't have to do this, and in fact may not want to in many instances. For example, if you have custom types that are used by multiple services, or if you're using custom types whose definitions are specified by a third party, then you'd certainly want to qualify the custom type using the appropriate namespace. The next attribute,
qname, specifies the fully qualified name of the type being mapped. The value assigned is
x:StockTrade, which is the same
StockTrade namespace qualified using the service name. The
javaType attribute specifies the server-local Java class used to implement the type; on the server side we're using
javasoap.book.ch5.StockTrade_ServerSide. The last two attributes,
xml2JavaClassName, tell Apache SOAP which local Java classes to use to perform the serialization and deserialization, respectively. Apache SOAP comes with a custom serializer/deserializer class that can convert between custom XML types and Java classes that conform to the JavaBeans property accessor pattern. It can handle both serialization and deserialization, which is why we use it for both attributes. In the next chapter we'll look at creating custom type serializers.
Now that we have a deployment descriptor, we can go ahead and redeploy the
urn:BasicTradingService. Once we do that, our service is ready to accept
executeStockTrade method invocations. However, we need to do some setup work in the client application as well. Let's take a look at the client application:
package javasoap.book.ch5;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.*;
import org.apache.soap.*;
import org.apache.soap.rpc.*;
import org.apache.soap.encoding.*;
import org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc.*;
import org.apache.soap.util.xml.*;
public class StockTradeClient
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
URL url = new
Call call = new Call( );
SOAPMappingRegistry smr = new SOAPMappingRegistry( );
BeanSerializer beanSer = new BeanSerializer( );
// Map the Stock Trade type
new QName("urn:BasicTradingService", "StockTrade"),
StockTrade_ClientSide.class, beanSer, beanSer);
// create an instance of the stock trade
StockTrade_ClientSide trade =
new StockTrade_ClientSide("XYZ", false, 350);
Vector params = new Vector( );
params.addElement(new Parameter("trade",
StockTrade_ClientSide.class, trade, null));
Response resp;
try {
resp = call.invoke(url, "");
Parameter ret = resp.getReturnValue( );
Object desc = ret.getValue( );
System.out.println("Trade Description: " + desc);
catch (SOAPException e) {
System.err.println("Caught SOAPException (" +
e.getFaultCode( ) + "): " +
e.getMessage( ));
After the
Call object is created, we create an instance of
org.apache.soap.encoding.SOAPMappingRegistry called
This class holds the mappings of custom types to Java classes, and gets passed to the
Call object using the
setSOAPMappingRegistry( ) method of our
Call object. We haven't had to do this in previous examples because the
Call object creates a mapping registry for itself if one isn't passed to it. The
SOAPMappingRegistry( ) contains all of the predefined mappings, such as those we took advantage of for arrays. We'll add our mapping to it shortly.
Next we call the
call.setEncodingStyleURI( ) method. This method specifies the overall encoding style to be used for the custom type parameters.
The constant
NS_URI_SOAP_ENC, from the
org.apache.soap.Constants class, represents the
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/ namespace that we've been using thus far. This should be the same encoding style namespace that we specified in the deployment descriptor for the
StockTrade type.
setTargetObjectURI( ) and
setMethodName( ) methods are used in the same way as in previous examples.
The next step is to create an instance of
org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc.BeanSerializer; we can use this standard serializer because our custom type conforms to the JavaBeans property accessor pattern.
Now we can establish the mapping by calling
smr.mapTypes( ). The first parameter is
Constants.NS_URI_SOAP_ENC, which specifies that the encoding style used for this mapping is the standard SOAP encoding. You may be wondering why we need to do this if we've already specified the encoding style for the entire call earlier. The reason is simple: this parameter gives you the opportunity to override the encoding style used for this particular mapping. However, if you use
null as the parameter value, you'll end up with a mapping that attempts to use the
null namespace for the encoding style, which is not correct. When we look at the SOAP envelope for this message, you'll see that since the encoding style is the same as that of the overall call, the
encodingStyle attribute will not be repeated for this serialized parameter. If the encoding style were not the same as that of the
Call, it would appear as an attribute of the parameter.
The next parameter of
smr.mapTypes( ) is an instance of
org.apache.soap.util.xml.Qname, which represents a fully qualified name (one that includes a namespace qualifier followed by a name). We use
urn:BasicTradingService as the namespace and
StockTrade as the name. The third parameter is
StockTrade_ClientSide.class, the Java class that implements the custom type. The next two parameters are instances of the serializer and deserializer that will be used for this type. We use the
beanSer object that we created earlier for both, as the
org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc.BeanSerializer class implements both serialization and deserialization.
The rest is pretty simple. We create an instance of
StockTrade_ClientSide, taking advantage of the parameterized constructor to set its property values. Then we set up a
Vector of parameters, just as we've done in earlier examples. If you run this example, you should see the following output:
Trade Description: Sell 350 of XYZ
Let's take a look at the SOAP envelope that was transmitted. The relevant part of the envelope begins with the
trade element, representing the custom type parameter passed to the
executeStockTrade service method. The value assigned to
xsi:type is
ns1:StockTrade. The
ns1 namespace identifier is declared to be
urn:BasicTradingService in the parent
executeStockTrade element. And
StockTrade is the name we specified for our custom type. There are three child elements of the
trade element, each one corresponding to the properties of the
StockTrade custom type. The name of each element corresponds exactly to the property name. This is crucial, as Apache SOAP is going to use Java reflection to find the set methods of the associated Java class. Therefore, the names in the envelope must match the names used by the class. Each one of these property elements is explicitly typed, and those types have to coincide with the types of the corresponding properties as well.
<ns1:executeStockTrade xmlns:ns1="urn:BasicTradingService"
<trade xsi:type="ns1:StockTrade">
<numShares xsi:type="xsd:int">350</numShares>
<buy xsi:type="xsd:boolean">false</buy>
<symbol xsi:type="xsd:string">XYZ</symbol>
Now let's see how custom types are handled in GLUE, using the
BasicTradingService class without modification.
We need to add the
executeStockTrade( ) method to the
IBasicTradingService interface. We can deploy the service as we did before. Here's the new version of
package javasoap.book.ch5;
public interface IBasicTradingService {
int getTotalVolume(String[] symbols);
String executeTrade(Object[] params);
String[] getMostActive( );
String executeStockTrade(StockTrade_ClientSide trade);
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Writing applications that access services has been easy using the GLUE API because we haven't dealt directly with the SOAP constructs. We should be able to follow that same pattern here, but there's a problem.
executeStockTrade( ) method of the
IBasicTradingInterface interface says that the parameter is an instance of
StockTrade_ClientSide. But the
executeStockTrade method of the
BasicTradingService class that implements the service uses a parameter of
StockTrade_ServerSide. So there's a mismatch, albeit by design. By default, GLUE looks for the same class on the client and server sides. If we had used the
StockTrade_ServerSide class in our client application instead of the
StockTrade_ClientSide class, all would work perfectly. We're not going to do that, so just take my word for it that it works (or better yet, try it for yourself). We'll have to take another approach.
Whenever I develop distributed systems, I'm happy to share Java interfaces between both client and server code bases. However, I don't like to share Java classes, especially if those classes contain code that is specific to either the client or the server. In this example, we could rework the design of our stock trade classes to come up with something that contains the relevant data without any of the functionality of either the client or the server. We would want both the client and the server to use the class from the same package, so as the implementer of the basic trading web service, we'd have to distribute the package containing such a class to the developers' client applications. That would work, and it's not uncommon in practice. Getting back to the notion of sharing Java interfaces instead of classes, we could create an interface for the trade data, and have both the server and client classes implement that interface. That's a nice clean way to share between server and client code bases without sharing any actual executable code. Again, this interface would reside in a package available to both server and client systems. This mechanism is expected to be supported in a future version of GLUE (which might already be available by the time you read this).
GLUE does support another mechanism for making this stuff work. This mechanism doesn't require you to modify the server side, and the work involved on the client side is trivial. We're going to create a new package for this client example, because our work will create some files that have the same names as those we created earlier. The new package prevents us from overwriting files when running both client and server on the same machine. So be aware that this example is part of a new package called
javasoap.book.ch5.client, and the files we'll be developing need to be in the corresponding directory for that package.
I've purposely avoided discussion of WSDL so far, even though GLUE is based entirely on WSDL. However, the first step in this process makes use of GLUE's
wsdl2java utility, which generates Java code based on a WSDL file. So where does the WSDL come from? The GLUE server generates it automatically. The client-side applications based on the GLUE API have been taking advantage of this all along.
wsdl2java generates the Java interface for binding to the service, a helper class, a Java data structure class that represents the data fields of the custom type we're working with, and a map file. The map file is essentially a schema definition for the custom type; it tells GLUE how to map the fields of the Java data structure class to the fields of the custom type. GLUE uses a number of mechanisms for handling custom type mapping; in this case, the map file defines the mapping explicitly, rather than basing the mapping on Java reflection.
So let's go ahead and generate the files for the client application. Enter the following command, making sure you are in the directory for the
javasoap.book.ch5.client package:
wsdl2java http://georgetown:8004/glue/urn:BasicTradingService.wsdl
-p javasoap.book.ch5.client
The parameter to the
wsdl2java utility is the full URL of the service WSDL, just like we've been using in the
bind( ) methods in previous examples. The
-p option tells the utility the name of the local package for which code should be generated:
javasoap.book.ch5.client. The output from
wsdl2java consists of four files. The first one is IBasicTradingService.java, which contains the Java interface for binding to the service. We've been writing this one by hand up until now; let's take a look at the one generated by
// generated by GLUE
package javasoap.book.ch5.client;
public interface IBasicTradingService
String executeStockTrade( StockTrade_ServerSide arg0 );
String[] getMostActive( );
int getTotalVolume( String[] arg0 );
String executeTrade( Object[] arg0 );
The only differences between this interface definition and the one we wrote ourselves are a different package declaration, the naming of the method parameters, and the
executeStockTrade taking a parameter of
StockTrade_ServerSide instead of
StockTrade_ClientSide. Remember that the earlier version of
IBasicTradingService won't work for us because GLUE defaults to using the same class on both client and server. At first glance, the use of the
StockTrade_ServerSide class here seems to violate our desire to completely decouple the server code from the client code. But remember that the package declaration is
javasoap.book.ch5.client, so this Java interface is not referencing the same
StockTrade_ServerSide class being used by our server, which belongs to a different package. Let's take a look at the
StockTrade_ServerSide class generated by
wsdl2java and placed in the file named StockTrade_ServerSide.java:
// generated by GLUE
package javasoap.book.ch5.client;
public class StockTrade_ServerSide
public int _shares;
public boolean _buyOrder;
public String _stock;
This is only a shadow of the corresponding class in the
javasoap.book.ch5 package that the server side uses. It does, however, properly reflect the data values. We'll be creating an instance of this class in our client application to pass to the service, as this is the type expected by the
executeStockTrade( ) method of the
IBasicTradingService interface that was generated.
The third file generated by
wsdl2java is BasicTradingService.map, which contains the mapping schema mentioned earlier. You can take a look at the contents of the mapping file on your own; suffice it to say that it contains XML entries that define field mappings between the client-side and server-side Java. The last generated file is BasicTradingServiceHelper.java, which contains a helper class for performing the
bind( ) operation. I don't use that helper class, so we'll ignore it here.
It's taken far longer to describe the process than it takes to perform it. Now let's move on to writing the client application:
package javasoap.book.ch5.client;
import electric.registry.RegistryException;
import electric.registry.Registry;
import electric.xml.io.Mappings;
public class StockTradeClient2 {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
try {
IBasicTradingService srv =
StockTrade_ServerSide trade =
new StockTrade_ServerSide( );
trade._stock = "MINDSTRM";
trade._buyOrder = true;
trade._shares = 500;
String desc = srv.executeStockTrade(trade);
System.out.println("Trade Description is: " + desc);
catch (RegistryException e)
In This Series
Working with Complex Data Types, Part 4
Working with Complex Data Types, Part 2
Working with Complex Data Types, Part 1
The critical step is to read the mappings before you perform the bind operation. This is done by calling the
readMappings( ) method of the
electric.xml.io.Mappings class provided as part of GLUE. After the
bind( ) call, we simply create an instance of
StockTrade_ServerSide, set its field values, and call the
executeStockTrade method. The output from running this application should be:
Trade Description is: Buy 500 of MINDSTRM
Now let's look at the SOAP envelope generated by this application. As we've come to expect, the
executeStockTrade element is namespace-qualified using the name of the service. The child element
arg0 is a reference to a separately serialized element named
id0, just as GLUE generated for an array parameter. This example shows us why GLUE has been generating the
ns2 namespace identifier that seems to reference the package where the implementing server-side class resides. Here that namespace is used to qualify the value of the
xsi:type attribute, with a value corresponding to the name of the implementing class
StockTrade_ServerSide. The child elements of the
id0 element contain the data fields for the custom type.
<n:executeStockTrade xmlns:n='urn:BasicTradingService'>
<arg0 href='#id0'/>
<id0 id='id0' soapenc:root='0'
<_shares xsi:type='xsd:int'>500</_shares>
<_buyOrder xsi:type='xsd:boolean'>true</_buyOrder>
<_stock xsi:type='xsd:string'>MINDSTRM</_stock>
In the next and final installment, learn about returning custom types.
Robert Englander is Principal Engineer and President of MindStream Software, Inc. (www.mindstrm.com). He provides consulting services in software architecture, design, and development, as well as developing frameworks for use on client projects.
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Ms. Allison Young entered training on June 8, 2004 in Dilijan, Armenia where she completed an intensive 11-week program in Eastern Armenian language (176 hours), Cross-Cultural studies, and Community Health in Armenia. At the end of training, she received a language score of Intermediate-Low.
Allison was sworn in as a Peace Corps Volunteer August 23, 2004 in Yerevan, Armenia. She was assigned to be a health teacher at School No. 3 in Berd, Armenia, a town of approximately 8,000 people. Allison taught grades one through ten, and classes encompassed such subjects as nutrition and exercise, dental hygiene, self-esteem building, and reproductive and women's health. In addition to classes at School No. 3, Allison gave reproductive and women's health classes for teenage girls at the other schools in Berd, and with Dr. Asia Mardanyan, physician, taught a seminar for young women at the Berd Technical College on reproductive and women's health. These classes were all conducted in the Armenian language.
In March 2005, Allison attended the Peace Corps Project Design Management training in Tzakadzor, Armenia which taught volunteers and their counterparts how to organize projects and write grants.
In August 2005 at the Mid Service Conference, Allison received an Armenian language score of Intermediate-High.
In September 2005, Allison started working with Dr. Asia Mardanyan at the Berd Polyclinic. She wrote a mini-grant for $500 from Peace Corps Small Project Assistance funds to repair the water system within the Polyclinic. The water previously had not reached the third floor and laboratory, was leaking in the basement, and was creating a hygiene problem since the doctors did not have running water in the sinks in their rooms and the toilet was not functional. The grant allowed the Polyclinic to repair the plumbing so that all the doctors on the third floor and laboratory could have running water to their rooms. At the Polyclinic, Allison also held an English club for doctors to increase their capacity to acquire new health information. This club met twice a week and focused on speaking and vocabulary.
In January 2006, Allison helped to create a local non-governmental organization named "Will and Health" with Drs. Asia Mardanyan and David Harutunyan to focus on community health education in the town of Berd and its surrounding villages. With $1,800 received from Saint Francis Church of Potomac, Maryland, an office for Will and Health was furnished with a computer, printer, conference table and chairs. A library containing 60 health-related books in the Armenian and Russian language was also started, and accessible to the Berd community without charge.
In November 2005, Allison helped to coordinate a $6,000 project at the Berd Kindergarten to renovate the bathrooms with funds raised by Jack and Eva Medzorian and Armenian diaspora groups in America.
Under the Gender and Development Initiative, Allison organized the annual March 8th Women's Day Essay Contest with the Armenian organization Center for the Development of Civil Society and Svetlana Aslanyan in 2005 and 2006. The Essay Contest was administered to ninth grade students around the country on a subject related to women's rights and issues. Three winners were chosen from the nine regions in Armenia and attended an awards ceremony in Yerevan, Armenia where guests from national and international civil rights organizations spoke. Allison also participated as a camp counselor for one week in one of the Girls Leading Our World summer camps in Vanadzor, Armenia in July 2005.
In August 2005 and June 2006, Allison participated as a camp counselor for one week at Eco Camps in the towns of Navur and Gavar, Armenia, which focused on environmental education for local children ages 10-13.
In May 2006, Allison performed on the Armenian cannon in a concert in Gyumri, Armenia organized by another Peace Corps volunteer to promote local young musicians' original works. In July 2006, Allison organized and performed in a concert in Berd, Armenia along with other Berd musicians.
At the Close of Service Conference in April 2006, Allison received an Armenian language score of Advanced-Mid.


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SHEPHERDSTOWN – Roger and Vicki Peterson grew up at their parents' Dairy Queen stores. Before the siblings were born, in 1958, their parents had already purchased their first store.
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