18.03, Friday 30 Aug 2002

The Spring Desktop looks interesting. Your desktop is your canvas on which live representations of real things, like people and places. Each Object carries with it its own behaviour; the example on the front page is of an application displaying a 'Download Latest Version' method, another is of dragging a file to a person to AIM is to them. But the Spring Developers page is more interesting. A Spring Object is simply a folder with its behaviour contained within. And the actions will be based on existing standards and methods. It's at an early stage, but still -- one to watch.