Erik's Pulse: 2006-04-04

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Erik C. Thauvin maintains a blog, as well as one of the web's first and most popular linkblogs, which he updates daily with the latest Java and technology news.

Picks of the Week:

Konstantin — Java APIs comparison.
Alan — The boogeyman that drives Java EE.
PJ — Java Developer Survey Results.
Cédric — Jaxx… oh my.
Bill — Binary Compatible Versus Open Source Java.
David — Scripting language support and whether Java needs to be open sourced.
Kevin — Java Still Cool?
John — The march of progress.
Andy — Groovy performance testing.
Jason — Java's Answer to Ruby on Rails.

Tip of the Week:

Ten Things Every Java Developer Should Know About Unix

Tutorial of the Week:

Running J2ME Applications on Palm-powered Devices

Notable Software Releases:

Apache Maven 2.0.3	AspectJ 5	AtLeap 0.5 Final
Commons Pool 1.3	DataMovil 2.3	DbWrench Database Design 1.3.2
Deskzilla 1.2	DWR 1.1.1	Eclipse 3.2 M6
eXo Portal 1.1 RC7	Grails 0.1	Information Currency Web Services 0.2pre1
iScreen 0.8.0	Ivy 1.3.1	JAPI 0.8.0
Java VideoLan Client Bindings 0.0.5	JavaSVN 1.1.0.beta	JBidwatcher 1.0pre6
JBoss AS 4.0.4 CR2	JDataGrid Spreadsheet Edition 1.8	jFin B0.1.4
jGCS 0.2	Jitterbit 0.9.8	JobServer 1.4
Jofti 1.2beta2	JoSQL 1.4	JOSSO 1.4
JSch 0.1.26	JScience 3.1	jSh3ll RC4b
jSh3ll RC5	JSON-RPC-Java 1.0	JXInsight 4.1.2
JXTA P2P 2.3.7_00	Kaffe 1.1.7	Launch4j 2.1.2
Luntclipse 1.3	MagicDraw UML 11.0	Mr. Persister ORM 3.1.2
OpenDMTP 1.1.1	Parabuild 2.0.14	PMD 3.6
RabbIT 3.0	RADi GUI Builder 1.1.01	Ravenous 0.7.4
RefleX 0.1.3	Savant 2.0 alpha	Smilehouse Workspace 1.6
Stripes 1.3 Beta 1	SwiftMQ 6.0	Tapestry 4.0.1
Westhawk's SNMP stack in Java 5.0	Wicket 1.2 beta 3	XFire 1.1 Beta
Xgrid Agent for Java 2006-03-29	XINS 1.4.0-beta2	YaHP Converter 0.17

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Erik C. Thauvin
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