Erik's Pulse: 2007-04-17

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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:

Tom — "Open Letter" or Extortion?
Bob — Is the JCP really open?
Matt — OpenID and Java: It wasn't so easy.
Alan — JavaOne 2007 - Is it worth it?
Dave — Five Reasons Why Apache Will Regret That Open Letter.
Eric — Java 6 JDialog Improvement.
Ian — The Silence from an Open Sun.
Jeff — The ridiculous java bashing needs to stop.
Cay — What's so Taxing about Return?
Matt — Configuring Tomcat for Production.

Tip of the Week:

Make the Swing Fly

Tutorial of the Week:

Implement Parallel Processing in your Java Applications

Notable Software Releases:

Asbru Web Content Editor 7.0	BEA JRockit for Java SE 6	Big Faceless PDF Library 2.7.9
Big Faceless Report Generator 1.1.35	DBSight 1.4.0	Druide DB 0.9.4
DWR 2.0 RC4	eHour 0.5	EZMorph 1.0.2
Fast Data Transfer 0.6.2	Fremtris 0.6	Input Components Suite 2.0
IntelliJ IDEA 7 Milestone 1	iText 2.0.2	Java Tools 0.29
JAXB RI 2.1.3	JDave 0.7.0	JdbcTool 1.0
JFeature 1.0	Jigsaw 2.2.6	JIIC 1.0
jMock 2.0.0	JOpt.SDK Vehicle Routing Component 2.0.0	JParseTree 0.9.8.371
JPedal 3.10	JRockit for Java SE 6 GA	JSmooth 0.9.9-4
Jxcell 1.6.2	k5njournal 0.2.1	Matrex 1.1
MoioChart 1.0	Mule 1.4	MyEclipse 5.5 M2
MySQL Connector/J 5.1.0 Alpha	Nagios Appender 1.2.0b	OpenXava 2.1.2
POMStrap 1.0.6	Qwicap 1.4b4	Ravenous 0.9.9
Regular Statement String 2.5.7	Restlet 1.0	Simple 1.2
soapUI 1.7 Final	StreamCruncher 1.12	SubEtha 1.0.1
Substance LAF 3.3	Subversive 1.1.1	TinyWTP 2.0M6
WebCharts3D 5.2	XELand 1.0-RC3	YaHP Converter 1.2.5

The Truth is Out There…
Erik C. Thauvin
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