[@961]

Eye on performance: Exceptions to exceptions.

Daniel — Exception costs.

Java 1.5 In Action. This example code produces a word-frequency table from standard input.

Diego — first day at the new office.

Tom — ETech keynote from Nokia CTO and David Potter interview.

Go Beyond Tag Libraries. See how to improve page and tag authoring by embracing JSP 2.0's new expression language and tag extension model

Building Trust for Applets. With only one security model to worry about, the Java 2 standard security model, security for applets is now easier than ever.

Get Ready for the Enterprise Supply Chain. The next-generation use of the Internet involves using RFID to track product movements from source to destination.

Designing end-user MIDP apps. Design implementations, incorporation of graphics, testing the product on various devices, and further development of an MIDP application.

J2ME Luminary Antero Taivalsaari. The father of KVM, gives us his insights into both the history and the future of J2ME, and more.

Joe — instanceof vs. ClassCastException.

Rusty — The first beta of EJBCA 3.0, an open source, J2EE Certificate Authority, has been posted. .

Pete — SQLServer Books Online Updated.

Magnus — Applying the Java Service Wrapper to JBoss 3.2.3.

Gavin — Not so Naked Objects.

Matt — Where do you put your extensions in a CVS tree?

Slava — Java 1.5 Documentation.

Brian — My Mobile Hacks Slides.

Jon — Programs that write programs.

Steve — HandsFreeLink Compatibility.

Paul — The iMac Needs to Lose Its Head.

FindBugs 0.7.1. A program to find bugs in Java programs.

Programmer Sets Up Mask for File-Sharers. AnonX.

Review: Siemens SX1.

J Aaron — Surviving in Open Source Communities.

[@648]

TiVo wins Pause Technology patent suit. a favorable ruling in a patent infringement lawsuit brought against it by Pause Technology in 2001.

Java Tools Subscribers Get Free Hardware. Program cost is $1,499 per year for three years.

Comcast offers $66 billion for Disney. Unsolicited proposal.

Sun Acquires Server Maker, Rejoins With Co-Founder. Bechtolsheim agrees to rejoin the company he helped establish 20 years ago.

Tom — Web Developer Extension for FireFox and Mozilla.

What exactly is a nimrod? Dipstick?

Wendong — We need mobile java.sql

Carlos — Naked Eclipse Objects and More on the Naked Objects remake.

Dominic — Kernel comparison: Web serving on 2.4 and 2.6.

Charles — 90 Million Chinese Mobile Users Get Java.

Paul — Free Mail Checker (WAP/PDA).

Scott — MasterCard Raises Credit Interchange Fee.

Dave — Regressions from 1.1.

Mathew — Mobile server applications with Cocoon.

TinyLine, provides Mobile SVG Applications and Development Tools for J2ME devices.

Mike — Judges Say Harlan Ellison Can Sue AOL For Usenet Postings.

Russ — Tomcat 5 Database Pooling with MySQL.

DoJ officials recommend blocking PeopleSoft takeover by Oracle.

Photos of Josh, the Newfie who won Westminster Dog Show.

Keith — Links.

We filled our taxes electronically yesterday night.

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.

[@215]

Tech Tips: Styling Digital Images with ConvolveOp and Using HttpURLConnection to Access Web Pages.

Simon — Running a JSP container on port 80 with Mac OS X.

Rogers — Google drops Atom bomb on RSS.

Charles — Pronunciation of SQL.

Diego — configuring apache 2 + tomcat 5 + mysql + jdbc access on linux and windows.

David — What shall we call the new for loop?

Dion — Maven Resignation.

Simon — Run IntelliJ IDEA with the menubar at the top of the screen on Mac OS X.

Fred — SCO Death Blow Delivered by Novell.

Hani — Our Fearless Leaders Suck.

Laszlo — jFreeSafe 0.2.3.

Christian — R&D-Live - My ETech learnings.

Chris — Due credit: SiteMesh.

Jeffrey — How to Have Fun At Conferences.

Rogers — More on Google's Atom bomb.

TiVo wins Pause Technology patent suit. a favorable ruling in a patent infringement lawsuit brought against it by Pause Technology in 2001.

New Microsoft security hole stretches wide. Released a critical software update to patch yet another security hole.

[@920]

Hackers Hall of Fame. 15 bios of modern and not so modern hackers.

Alan — J2ME avenges Corel Office for Java?

Robin — Open Letter to Bill Gates.

JDistro 0.29. A desktop and a shared runtime built on Java and Swing.

MIDP IDE [via Mobitopia] 

Jeremy — Is ETech Elitist?

jGossip v 1.0.0 RC1. Forum implemented on the J2EE platform using Struts framework with MySQL.

Jim — Nokian - Is the fat lady singing yet?

Rusty — Sebastiano Vigna has released version 4.1 of fastUtil, a collection of type-specific Java maps and sets.

Adam — Recruiting.

Steven — Being spammed by your own kid.

Rogers — How virus writers catch the coding bug.

Rob — Apple details iPod legal issues.

Michael — Looking for Java API's Online Drives Me Insane.

Rick — Poomonkey Anthony is upset, too bad!

Robert — Technorati at O'Reilly Conference.

Steven — Unison 1.0.2.

Alpine's iPod car stereo system. With a simple one-cable connection…

How to restart Squid with a clean cache. [via Mobitopia, added to wiki]

Guy — Java 1.5 Example: Revisiting Word Frequency Count.

[@679]

Daniel — Introducing IoC.

Is Your TCP Port 3127 Open? Then Watch Out for "MyDoom.C"

Frank — Security Alert: Multiple vulnerabilities in Nokia mobile phones.

Sony Officially Launches Three New Clies - TJ27, TJ37 and TH55.

Fejes — How to create your Gush RSS feed list - Applied XQuery.

Henri — simple-jndi 0.9 released and gj-config 1.0 released.

Simon — Testing thread safety - updated.

Nick — Excellence Award: Java Service Wrapper.

Mark — Re: DBUnit doubts.

Vasanth — Eclipse 3.0 compatible with 2.1 plugins.

Sybase EAServer 5.0 Released. Integrates J2EE 1.3, secure Enterprise Web services, C/C++, PowerBuilder and COM.

Chuq — Happy anniversary to me….

Lance — File Format Identification in Java.

PalmSource to rebrand OSes Garnet, Cobalt. One for smartphones, the other for PDAs.

[@560]

Print "Hello World" in a Mobile Phone Using J2ME. It all starts here.

Atlassian Releases Confluence RC1. Confluence RC1 brings a host of new features, new macros, general improvements and bug fixes.

J2ME Debugging with Eclipse. Step by step.

Ewan — O'Reilly Diary - Sunday.

Matt — Russ at ETech and Too Much Wireless.

Russ — Elvis has left the conference.

Ewan — Are You Attending the OPL Presentation?

Laurent — Core Dumps are Coming to Tiger.

Kevin — Making your blog Google compatible.

David — IntelliJ Aurora build 1151 available and blojsom 2.11 available.

Petri — 3G Round Up.

David — Equality and Autoboxing.

Keith — Some interesting files in the JDK1.5 beta javadoc.

Greg — NIO and the Servlet API.

Michael — Nokia, Symbian, Microsoft Smartphone and J2ME.

Patrick — JDK1.5 Metadata or Annotation.

Tom — Speed through smaller methods.

Wendong — Markup languages for phones.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Rajesh — RSS Top 55.

Paul — About the new Mozilla Firefox branding.

Rogers — Native2ascii handles Java's character flaws.

Java Serialization to XML 2.1.5 . A system that can instantly read and write any object data in XML.

Clustered JDBC 1.0 release candidate 1. A cluster of databases through JDBC.

Compuware Releases New Web Services Tools. OptimalJ.

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.

[@860]

Review: Sendo - X.

Rick — Update on Evermore Office & Javalobby.

Election Time for Java Games Community Board of Directors. You have until Feb 13 to vote.

Matthew — Eclipse interview.

Rael — Protecting Your Mobile Life… and Creating Web Content for Mobile Phone Browsers, Part 1.

Russ — Nokia Buys Out Psion - Controls Symbian.

Juniper Acquires NetScreen for $4 Billion. Stock swap.

PeopleSoft Rejects Oracle's $9.4 Billion Takeover Offer. I am shocked. ;-)

Rusty — JAPISoft has released EditiX 1.0.1, is $39 payware XML editor written in Java.

Matt — Mozilla Firebird 0.8 - I'm not impressed.

Geert — RIFE v0.6.59 has been released.

Niel — GPS and Java? Here's a Few.

Cedric — JUnit pain.

Sony Ericsson T650 sneak peek. The presumed successor to the T610 and T630.

Tim — Java Performance under OS X.

JHelpBuilder 1.1 beta 1 is available for download.

[@646]

Document any project using the Eclipse help system. The Eclipse Platform includes its own help system based on an XML table-of-contents referencing HTML files.

Breaking News: Nokia buys Symbian.

JNIWrapper 2.3 for Windows, XtremeJ Management Console v2.0 and InfinityDB 1.0.20.

Mozilla Firebird gets .8 Release, and New Name. Firefox.

Ewan — O'Reilly Diary - Saturday.

Matt — From the Lobby at ETech.

Russ — Emerging Tech Photos.

Rael — Faster Bluetooth Palm Synching.

Rusty — Smile 0.31, an open source implementation of JSF and Voruta 1.0 is an open source library that reduces the JDBC code.

David — blojsom Gallery Plugin v0.1.

Eugene — Bouncy Castle crypto API and JCE provider 1.22 released.

Richard — 13 improvements for EJB.

Marc — 10 Don't do's in Java WebApp Programming.

Matt — [ANN] WebWork 2.0 and XWork 1.0 Released!.

Mike — If you were a method, what would you be?

Ted — Mac Tips and Tricks updated.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Conor — Is JDK 1.5 too clever?

Dave — Blogging from O'Reilly's ETech.

Sanjay — Re-enabling username/password URLs.

Mark — sandler 0.5 released.

Former Lineo CEO takes helm at Metrowerks. Matt Harris.

Review: Siemens SX1 Smart Phone.

James — Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming Language.

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.

[@028]

JSyntaxColor 1.2.4. A SWING editorKit for coloring user input.

Jacksum 1.4.0, a free utility for computing and verifying checksums, CRCs and message digests as well as timestamps of files.

Tutorial: Learn how to modify classes as they're being loaded with Javassist.

Chris — Unpacking the Nokia Series 60 SDK on Linux.

Diego — eye of the tiger… and …and the great IDE hunt.

Matt — Charging Gadgets for Etech and Hotspots as Portals.

Russ — J2ME Personal Profile Plug-In.

Matthew — GPS Running.

Java 1.4.2 for OS X new references:

• Release Notes
• API Reference: J2SE
• API Reference: Apple Extensions

Joe — An Excellent Blog Entry.

Michael — Who the hell wants printf anyway?

Wendong — Mobilize your blog site.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Rick — I Know Why Software Sucks.

Paul — I'm Learning Morse Code.

Keith — Links.

jEdit 4.2pre9, a couple more pre-releases, then 4.2final.

IdeaJad 1138-2, a JAD decompiler plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.

More Filemaker 7 Details. Special Report: FileMaker Pro 7 features revealed.

JBother 0.8.1, a Jabber client written in Java.

The Pornography Industry vs. Digital Pirates. The copyright rumble is playing out a little differently in the red-light districts of cyberspace.

Nalla — Java Adventure Builder Reference application v1.0 released.

Jon — Why I'm excited about JDK 1.5.

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.

[@701]

Filippo — Open Source Issue Tracker.

Karl-Martin — Links… and More links….

Bob — Exception Handling in Web Applications and Moving to java.net….

Simon — Java 1.4.2 Developer Package - documentation and Javadocs.

Slava — Staging Unofficial WebLogic FAQ.

Miko — My overview of EclipseCON.

Jon — Things that shouldn't need to be said.

Rui — No Time For More.

Christoph — Undocumented MT tags and UltraEdit Wordfile for MT templates.

Java Weather Library 0.2.3. A Java library for parsing raw weather data. I use it within mobibot. David, the author, even stoped by #mobitopia to check it out.

JaMp 0.3.0 alpha 1. A Java-based MP3 player.

Inline::Java 0.46. Lets you write Perl classes in Java and wrap/use existing Java classes.

More Free Garage Band Loops. Access Music has posted 46MB of free Garage Band loops.

MacBand.com lets GarageBand users share music. Community site for GarageBand.

JPluck 2.1 pre 1. A Plucker document creation toolkit.

Russ — MaxDox and Blue Lava Wireless.

Dave — #roller.

Charles — A Killer NetBeans 3.6 Beta is Released.

Erik — Rock Star Contest: Win $100.

Nextel to test '4G' broadband service. Set to begin testing a new, "fourth generation", wireless broadband offering later this month.

SCO abandons trade secret attack on IBM. The SCO Group abandoned a major rationale of its case against IBM by dropping its trade secret claims.

David — Pop Quiz: Java Shift Operators. You can also use shift operators to speed up common math operations.

Kumar — J2SE1.5: javax.pack is awesome but ..

Jay — XML is not good enough.

Marc — Jabber (XMPP) is now offocially the standard.

Software innovation is dead. All that's left is compatibility fixes, security patches, and minor-version-number incremental improvements. The problem isn't a lack of ideas; it's a lack of motivated developers.

JavaDOCHelper1.5.1, a Javadoc view & search tool. Bug fix release.

David — IntelliJ Aurora build 1147 available.

Juha — StringBuilder vs. StringBuffer.

JNetStream 0.2.0, a Java Network Streams Analyzer Library.

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.

[@902]

A fellow Erik just informed me that I'm now #1 on Google.

Jeff, the author of ReportMill, suggested that I use Borland Optimizeit to determine the memory requirements, etc. for mobibot. Me likee!

Daniel — Caring about your work.

Rael — RSS Feed Reader for 6600 and P900.

Kevin — JSTOR has Java contract work in Ann Arbor.

Dion — javax.pack: Crunching jars up to less then 10% of their size.

Norman — Hacking the iTunes/pepsi contest.

Paul — Apple responds to furor over Panther-only Safari.

Simon — The dangers of PageRank.

Guy — Other Goodies in Tiger.

Woman files class action lawsuit over Janet's nipple baring. [via Amy]

Midlet Dictionary 0.0.2, english/russian, released.

What's next for PDAs and smartphones. Brighthand overview of fourteen new PDAs and smartphones that are due out (or rumored to be due out) in the next couple of months.

Mike — Tower Records Declares Bankruptcy.

Russ — PalmSource and the smart phone wars continued…

Michael — Do programmers want J2SE on their cell phones?

Joe — Running Orion from a non-writeable directory.

Norman — Convert protected AACs to MP3s.

Super Bowl Ads Supercharge Online Traffic. But Janet beat 'em all. ;-)

[@734]

Announcing TheServerSide Java Symposium, May 6-8, Las Vegas.

Neil — New "Ocean" LAF in Tiger.

Simon — Pebble 1.4 beta 2 available.

Matt — iChat AV can now talk to Windows users!

Steven — Unison 1.0.1.

Kevin — Make Your Swing App Go Native, Part 3.

Mike — OSX Confluence Client Prototype.

Derek — JetBrains Will Refactor Your Personal Info.

David — IntelliJ Aurora build 1144 available.

Keith — JavaBeans : the good and bad.

Vinny — New Java books from O'Reilly.

KDE Brings Safari Improvements to Linux. Refinements to the Konqueror Web browser derived from collaboration with Apple's Safari browser team.

Nokia 7600 Review. [via Mobitopia]

Leslie — Quick Links.

Eclipse Hex Editor Plugin 1.0 released.

SCO adds copyright claim to IBM suit. Throwing in the kitchen sink too.

Todd — Real Player Security flaw found.

Take a Look at Some AMD64 Source Code. AMD's Paul Devriendt worked with Alan Zeichick to present the source for the AMD Opteron and Athlon 64 processor driver for Linux.

Nokia Mobile Server Services Emulator 1.0. A development and testing environment for Nokia MMSC, Delivery Server and Terminal Management Server.

JDK 1.5.0 plugin for Eclipse. Provides only preliminary support for JDK 1.5.

Kazaa Raided in Australia. The Music Industry Piracy Investigations raided the offices and homes of Kazaa executives.

Alan — JDK1.5 used to be installed on my machine … then i had to take it off and My Java Car.

Rusty — JDOM beta 10/rc1 and Jericho HTML Parser 1.0.

Don — SVG Image Server.

Joe — Running Orion 2.0.x under 1.5.

Michael — AspectJ & JDK 1.5 anybody know if it works underwater?

Scott — gzip all of today's web server logs?

Brent — Gus Mueller does “Edit in BBEdit”.

Simon — What's wrong with J2EE.

Radeox 1.0-BETA. A Wiki markup rendering engine.

Tutorial: VNC (Virtual Network Computing) 101.

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.

[@885]

Daniel — Tiger goes beta.

NetBeans 3.6 Beta. Available starting tomorrow.

Rael — Bluetooth Headset and Printer support for Mac OS X.

Brian — Java Jerks.

Kevin — Eclipse 3.0 plan updated, M7 due next week.

Mats — Cool log4j hack.

Eugene — Crunching jars up to less then 10% of the original size.

Matthew — The Future Of Orion- Does it Exist?

JFig 1.4.1, a configuration utility.

Jatha 1.5.6, a Java LISP library.

FScript 1.14. A very simple embedded scripting language for Java.

[@688]

First Java IDE with full support for JDK 1.5.0 available. CodeGuide 6.1.

Coldtags suite ver. 1.65 released. 165+ custom JSP tags for common programming tasks.

Ewan — Same Game Updated to v1.10.

Frank — BlueFOAF.

Filippo — Application Server market share.

Brian — JDeveloper Projects and Ant.

Guillaume — Groovy-JDK doc : Parsing Java with QDox.

Matt — How much CPU Power does a Java/Tomcat app need?

Mike — Terrible javablogs ripoffs - or how not to copy a site…

Andreas — KDE 3.2 Final Released.

Simon — Projection.

Bertrand — XML 1.1 - ready for this Amharic-language newspaper!

John — KaZaA wireless?

Charles — The Java Seige Mentality.

JaCSy 1.2. The Java CreditPoint System is for Distributed Programs and Internet Software sales.

Apple CFO Anderson to retire June 1. Peter Oppenheimer stepping in.

CVS-SSH2 Plug-in for Eclipse 0.1.2. An Eclipse plug-in to allow CVS access on an SSH2 session.

NoUnit 0.7. A JUnit test measurement tool.

Keith — Code to safely delete a directory containing symbolic links.

JPreference Framework 0.2 beta, a preference system framework modeled after Java's property system.

[@391]

I've deployed the new version of mobibot in #mobitopia. Russ has updated the links and RSS pages accordingly. I'll put the source in my public CVS repository soon.

[@385]

Eclipse: A Java Developer's Guide and Using JUnit With Eclipse IDE.

J2SE 1.5 in a Nutshell. An overview of the exciting changes in J2SE 1.5, from the J2SE team.

Paul — If it works keep the mold.

The J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.1 and Getting Started with MIDP 2.0.

David — IntelliJ Aurora build 1141 available.

Gavin — Hibernate 2.1.2.

Vinny — Exploiting Software: How to Break Code.

Brian — Finally Played with JDK 1.5 Some… I Likee!

Ben — Apple quickies.

Jeffrey — PayPal SDK for ASP.NET.

Stefan — Where Does Apple Go from Here?

Sylvain — No donut for Orkut.

AOL wants refund for nipple slip. Super Bowl pop-up gone wrong.

Leslie — Quick Links.

JBuilder sur OSX. Il est remarquablement facile d'installer JBuilderX sur son Mac.

Buffer Overflow for Beginners. Buffer overflows are a common vulnerability on all platforms, but are by far the most commonly exploited bug on the linux/unix Operating systems.

Brian — Tiger and the Magic of Synth.

NewzCrawler 1.6 Build 1989 Beta 4. My fav desktop aggregator.

Henri — Payload 0.2 released.

Geert — Codeguide Amethyst build 809 released.

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.