Erik's Pulse: 2004-11-23

Erik C. Thauvin is director of technology at Imacination Software. He also maintains a blog, as well as a popular linkblog updated daily with the latest Java and technology news.

Bug Alert

The first major critical Java Plugin vulnerability has been discovered by a Finnish security consultant.

Kevin — JWSDP Command Line Parameters.
Huajun — Print out all members of a collection in JDK 5.0.
Cédric — MIDP absurdity.
John — Using A MySQL Data Source With Jakarta Tomcat.
Alan — Java on the Desktop: Going Past the BS.
Kevin — Open Letter to Sun from Eric Raymond.
Rob — What's new in JDeveloper 10.1.3 for Team Based Development.
Philip — Cost of Optimization is Greater than the Cost of Synchronization.
Dion — Starting a new project: Where to put config files?
Calvin — Solaris 10's Java secret.

Tip of the Week:

Compact Looping with for.

Tutorial of the Week:

Integrate COM and Java Components and Don't Forget about Memory.

Notable Software Releases:

Axis 1.2 RC2	Blackdown Java 2 SE for Linux 1.4.2-01	Calyxo 0.9.0-b4
Cayenne ORM 1.1 RC3	Cocoon 2.1.6	Commons HttpClient 3.0 beta1
Commons Jelly 1.0 RC 1	DisplayTag 1.0 RC2	EditiX 2.1
edtFTPj/SSL 1.1.5	Flow4J-Eclipse 0.9.3	install4j 3.1.2
IntelliUML Teresa 1.0 Preview	iText 1.1	Java Desktop for X
Java Launcher 2.00	Java2s 1.0	JBeanMapper 1.0
JD4X 0.3	jDBI 1.0.1 Release	JFtp 1.45
JIDE 1.6.2	Jimm 0.3	jLips 0.1.2
JML 5.1_rc2	JPackage 1.6	Jreepad 1.3
jzForum 1.2.5	LimeWire 4.2.2	LIMO 0.5
Luntbuid 1.1	lwXedit 4.10	Magnolia 2.0
MobiWeather 1.01	NailGun First Public Release	Orion 2.0.5 (stable)
Proguard 3.1	QuickServer 1.4.1	Retriever 0.906
Sesame 1.1	SPFOL JSP FORUM 1.0.2	SwtFox 3.0 beta4
SWTJasperViewer 1.0.0	TargetProcess:Planning 1.0	Useful Java Application Components 0.9.19
WebCharts3D 5.0c	XMoon 0.6.1	XOM 1.0 Beta 7 RC1

The Truth is Out There...
Erik C. Thauvin
erik@javalobby.org

This story was published in the November 23, 2004 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.