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A while ago, we had a problem with international characters being mangled on parameters from an URL, which at the end made us uncover, that we had just relied on defaults for the setting of URL Input Encoding. And that can be a problem.
What URL Input Encoding Is
When a HTTP GET or POST request arrive [...]

Hmm, it seems today was the day of big acquisitions.
Oracle Buys BEA
I can see the benefit in this one, at least for Oracle. They are getting a seriously good Java application server (WebLogic), something they have been missing always. It isn’t that Oracle has not tried. I seem to recollect that they once built one [...]