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Call on extensible RMI. An introduction to JERI.

Flying Dukes T-Shirt contest. James Gosling is running a contest for the most innovative way to distribute Duke T-shirts at JavaOne this year.

Russ — Windows Quicktime Install.

Samsung's First Linux Smartphone. i519. Chinese markets only.

Pete — Java is less secure than C++?

Sergio — Eclipse 3.0M6 released.

Paul — The New SCWCD Exam.

Carlos — Slashdot Personals.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.7fc1 final candidate.

Robert — Competition is Back.

Opera for Windows w/out Java 7.50 Preview 1 Build 3494 released.

Open source IE patch withdrawn for further patching. Thanks, but no thanks.

Video, meet iPod. Job posting fuel more rumors.

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Daniel — Last minute shopping.

The All New J2EE 1.4 Platform. Technical overview.

Developing JNDI-based Applications. The Java Naming and Directory Interface is a set of APIs for accessing naming and directory services.

Matt — Sun EOL's Cobalt Line.

Kevin — GUITAR GUI test automation tools.

Gregg — Javaranch Radio.

Fred — RIAA'sa Big Court Loss.

Hani — Cruel Christmas: commons-commons-logging.jar.

Steve — Tomcat-Compatible Toy Store Demo Now On OTN.

Dell stops selling iPods 'permanently'. Kinda makes sense now that they have their own player.

Sun's Schwartz bashes Microsoft. Exec critical of Microsoft for pulling products with incompatible JVM.

Russ — JSPX for XML and Nokia 6600 Java Tip.

David — blojsom … 3000 downloads and counting!

Eric — Saying Something Bad about Groovy (Minor Nits).

Robert — FeedDemon 1.0 ships.

Macworld reviews Dreamweaver MX 2004, more. Dreamweaver MX 2004, Flash MX 2004, Fireworks MX 2004, etc.

Software glitch brings Y2K deja vu. Applications running on thousands of computers worldwide will become inoperable in a few weeks because of an obscure date-related glitch. Sound familiar?

JDraw 1.3beta, a pixel oriented image editor written in Java.

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Roll your own secret Santa Web application. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

Zip Meets Java. The ZIP file format has become extremely popular for the distribution and storage of files…

Using Transactions In MySQL (Part 1).

Java's Advanced User Interface Components. Scrolling lists, scrollbars, and canvases.

Form Validation with JavaScript. Form validation can help to reduce the amount of bad data that gets saved to your database.

An Introduction to Cryptography and the Java Cryptography Extension.

Introducing the J2ME Wireless Connection Wizard.

Taking Pictures with MMAPI. Mobile Media API.

Sun Invites Cray, IBM to work on new computer language. Seems to me that this could be a future generation of the JVM.

Python 2.3.3 (rc1). Fixes a number of bugs, including a couple of serious errors with weakrefs and the cyclic garbage collector.

235,000 Fewer Programmers by 2015. According to a CNN Money article.

Matt — Embedding 3GPP in HTML and Serving XHTML-MP With Apache.

Rusty — JMemProf 0.6, an open source (LGPL), live Java memory profiler suitable for deployment in Web containers such as JBoss and Tomcat.

James — Gartner says Java will be dominant Language after 2004 - or do they?

Ted — The book is real!

Vjekoslav — Overview of Gnutella for Java.

Bertrand — Is your mailer being used as a spam relay?

Charles — Confluence Beta 1.

Kellan — Perl is 16 - Happy Birthday.

Martin — CIA to come clean on JFK assassination files.

Proguard 2.0, a free Java class file shrinker and obfuscator.

JFaceDbc 2.1.2, a JDBC client.

Java DBMS functions for MySQL 0.1. Provides Java DBMS functions for MySQL.

Regulators Issue First Citation for Violation of No-Call Law. Citation, no fine.

Dutch Supreme Court rules Kazaa legal. But using it might not be.

Today's sponsor is AdM+Partners.

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Open Source Firm Releases Patch for IE Bug. Fixes Internet Explorer's URL spoofing vulnerability.

David — IntelliJ Aurora, build 998 is available.

Matt — Ant 1.6 Released!

Paul — Hidden costs of Mac ownership.

Microsoft Responds to Real Networks Suit. Same old song, Microsoft says.

Tutorial: Apache Ant 101: Make Java builds a snap.

Tutorial: Master the Tiles framework.

Tutorial: J2ME 101, Part 2: Introduction to MIDP's low-level UI.

Work with sprites in J2ME. Images are spicing up wireless PDAs, and sprites offer great graphic manipulation.

Greg — Servlets must DIE! Slowly!!

Squid Analyzer 2.0, a tool which parses the native access log format of the Squid proxy.

Russ — Intrablogs and cleaning cruft.

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JHome 1.0.0, Java Home Automation.

Redhat Announces its Java Application Server. Redhat has beaten Apache's Geronimo to the punch… at least in releasing code for their Java application server.

Fedora Core 2 Schedule Up. The Fedora website has posted a schedule for their second release.

Alan — Cool use of RDS.

Dave — Doesn't anybody have anything bad to say about Groovy?

Michael — Links: Open Source Research, Dell Systems Management, Google Stickyness.

Matt — Interested in Java ISP Options.

Cedric — AOP refactoring.

Sam — Axis API via WSDL.

Apple offers developers Xcode 1.1 update.

RealNetworks files antitrust suit against Microsoft. Illegally using its Windows monopoly to limit consumer choice in digital media.

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I've just implemented random RSS taglines as part of my Exclusive Sponsorship Program.

Today's sponsor is currently enjoying an average of around 2 views per minute, with a 2.5% clickthru rate.

Interface Tool for Java, a tool that allows Java programs to communicate with ActiveX objects.

Daniel — Cryptography.

BEA and Compuware partner on Java development. Companies to link WebLogic Workshop and OptimalJ.

Will Wi-Fi Developers Stick with Java GLOO? A Java-based platform for creating network applications that distribute multimedia content in a peer-to-peer fashion between devices.

Exchanger XML Editor V1.2 Released.

Matt — Linux Kernel 2.6.0, Baby! and Top 5 applications from the Sony Ericsson Application Shop.

WiFi Rates.com. Compare the rates for service plans of wi-fi providers across North America, the UK, and Australia.

J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.1 Beta. This release adds support for JSR-185 (JTWI) clarifications, floating point support with CLDC 1.1, as well as the new J2ME Web Services API (JSR-172).

New QuickTime Supports Mobile Multimedia Standards. QuickTime 6.5.

Ships Metrowerks Development Kit for Series 60-Based Siemens SX1 Phones.

Metrowerks Offers Comprehensive Suite of Software Analysis Tools for Symbian OS Developers.

Rusty — Apple has released Java 3D and the Java Advanced Imaging for Java 1.4.1 on Mac OS X 10.3 (a.k.a Panther).

David — The Design of XMLBeans (Part 3).

Dion — Apache Creates Top Level Logging Services Project.

Joe — JDJ: what would YOU do?

Matt — Struts 2.0.

Cheah — Easy .htaccess.

Brent — RSD turns one.

Chris — mp3 Police.

iTunes v4.2 now available for download.

AOL members get access to iTunes Music Store. AOL members who visit AOL Music can now launch the iTunes Music Store

Mary Jo — It's Out: XP SP2 Beta 1.

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Top 15 Ant Best Practices.Eric M. Burke, offers his 15 best practices for using Ant and for writing well-crafted Ant buildfiles.

QTJ Audio, introduction to the useful audio-related tools provided by QuickTime to the Java developer.

Smart Value Object, allows server components to track client-side modification of business objects in a rich client/J2EE server environment.

Matthew — MobiQuitous 2004.

Russ — Ar2Zip.reg and Tomcat 5 and JSP 2.0. I use jarminator to view the content of JARs.

AOL Will Buy Out Partners as Venture with DoCoMo Ends. NTT DoCoMo is Japan's largest mobile phone carrier.

Andrej — Persistence layer poll on OTN.

David — Mac OS X 10.3.2 update available.

Mariano — Escribir en un archivo o consola por facu.

Punit — Suggested Reading for Design Patterns for Beginners.

Mats — The infuriating WSDL standard.

Dave — Apple News Feeds.

Haiko — Quick Links, December 18.

Darren — Maven is not Ant's successor.

Roger — O'Reilly launches MacDeveloper Journal.

Simkin for Java 1.27, a simple scripting language aimed at giving control over part or all of a Java application to the user.

SwingWT 0.76 , an implementation of the Swing/AWT APIs over SWT.

GNUStep clone delivers fat binaries for Zaurus, OS X. mySTEP.

Tech IPOs picking up steam. Some tech IPOs have been blasting off in 2003.

Mobile broadband everywhere. Land, air and sea.

Microsoft unleashes legal attack dogs on spammers. Teams up with NY.

Wal-Mart to Test Digital Music Downloads. Set to begin testing digital music downloads on its Web site.

Today's sponsor is AdM+Partners.

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As you're probably noticed, I've introduced an Exclusive Sponsorship Program. Be sure to check it out if you're interested in promoting your company on this blog.

Daniel — Who are these people?

JDC Software, LayoutBuilder.

Gloolabs Readies a Java-Based WiFi Audio Device.

Simon — EclipseCon.

Mike — Jabra Bluetooth headset works fantastic.

Motorola chip unit files $2 billion IPO. SPS Spinco.

Google Introduces Book Searches. Experimental program.

Juan — Gartner says Java will be dominant Language after 2004.

Matthew — Open Source found to be less buggy.

Free online seminar features guitarist Pat Metheny. Discussing guitars and the Mac.

Adobe opens e-book store. Adobe Digital Media Store.

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classworlds, a framework for container developers who require complex manipulation of Java's ClassLoaders.

Carlos — The 8 Laws of Software Evolution.

Known issues with the 6600's MIDP2.0 implementation. 3.42.1.

Motorola Abandons Symbian. Strengthening ties with Microsoft by expanding their Microsoft-powered MPx line of handsets.

Joshua — How do you develop?

Matt — Eclipse Plugins on OS X and 3.0 M5.

Adina — Joel Spolsky is dead wrong for once.

Microsoft to Retire Windows 98, Others. Microsoft is pulling the plug on many of its legacy products as a result of the Java lawsuit with Sun.

Thomas — L'état actuel du Wi-Fi en France.

Dion — JCP Watch: JAXP 1.3, Network Transfer JAR files, BEA/IBM JSRs.

Dick — Liv Tyler Day.

Nokia to set up New York office. New corporate office to house its Enterprise Solutions business group.

Here Comes Even More Digital Rights Management. Philips and Sony via InterTrust.

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Sending Data to a Port in UDP Format. The ByteBuffer Class helps you to write data in UDP by converting them to the respective bytes they generally occupy.

Struts Tiles Tutorial. The Tiles framework makes creating reusable pages and visual components easier.

Eric — OptimizeIt Followup, Still Rocks!

Matt — Ultimate Prepaid Dialup.

Show Me The Money — If You Can. An analyst study says the number of hotspots is booming, but the number of users isn't keeping pace.

Dominic — Application Interop: Microsoft .NET and J2EE.

Tobias — Maven JWSDP Plugin is comming.

John — Erik on Velocity Templating.

Wendong — J2ME Bluetooth Development Resources at BenHui.net.

Leslie — Quick Links.

AC/DC Classic is Second Best Album Seller of All Time. Back in Black.

MCI expands Wi-Fi footprint. Partnership with Boingo Wireless.

Bush Signs Law Placing Curbs on Bulk Commercial E-Mail. Ban on spam using false identities and misleading subject lines.

Bryce — Leaving Nokia.

Frank — Lowest bidder wins!

Vodafone's 256K Java: Pricey Eye Candy for Mobiphiles.

Nick — Classifier4J 0.5 is available.

Jeremy — CD-Rom Business Cards. Huh?

Today's sponsor is AdM+Partners.

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I just had a very enlightening chat with Didier Girard of Application-Servers.com. If you read French, you oughta be sure to check his site regularly.

David — blojsom 2.05 available.

Brian — How Does Apple Stay in Business?

Sun Brings Java Desktop to Wal-Mart Shelves. Sun is wagering that Wal-Mart's "always low prices" will catapult its Java Desktop System off storeroom shelves into the home market.

SuperWaba 4.1, a Java-like virtual machine for PDAs.

Jisp 3.0.0, a Java Indexed Serialization Package.

Hani — The codehaus of crack.

Metrowerks Siemens SX1 SDK available. The SDK contains a commercial release SX1 as well as everything you need to develop for it. $1,150.

Dion — Opinion: Closures in Java.

Ken — 831.

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Daniel — Working from a Template.

JURPE, a Java Universal Role Playing Engine.

Carlos — 13 Exceptional Exception Handling Techniques.

Anil — Bluetooth MIDlet for SE Car.

Omar — Cell phone users slow to embrace number portability.

Emily — How people are using camera phones.

Jonas — AspectWerkz 0.9.RC1 is released.

Chad — A bloggers start, UrlRewriting Filter.

Mark — Review: Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 days.

Thomas — SCBCD Online Study notes.

Wendong — SVG and Mobile SVG.

Mats — A really bad IBM Developerworks article.

Luke — Windows XP Service Pack 2 changes.

Charles — Overly Mocked.

T-Mobile, iPass sign Wi-Fi roaming deal. T-Mobile and iPass agree to a deal that allows subscribers to access each other's networks.

Mariano — Reflect Tips por facu.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

Java Adoption Continues to Rise in Enterprise. Study finds J2EE most popular edition, WebSphere favorite app server.

Russ — The Newton Effect and Napster: The Cat is Cool.

Keith — The Big Bang Theory of IDEs and Reading, Writing, and Code.

Glen — GAIM for Windows… not terrible.

Behrang — BeOS might see a full implementation of Java soon.

David — IntelliJ Aurora build 996 is available.

Jeremy — Zone Labs Snapped Up - Firewalls R Us?

Luke — Disable last access time in Windows XP.

Java 2 Micro Edition Game Library 0.0.1. An MIDP 1.0-compliant, highly customizable game library.

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O'Reilly offers Panther ed. of Mac OS X 'Missing Manual'.

Apple Developer Conference 2004 Details Emerging. WWDC 2004. Same week as JavaOne.

IBM to Move Software Jobs to India, China. IBM plans to move up to several thousand skilled software jobs from the United States to India, China and other countries.

David Pogue's Platform Comparison. David Pogue compares the Symbian, Palm and Windows Mobile for Smartphone platforms.

Spiderman 2 preview. Just one kiss…

Daniel — Working for "them".

Toshiba Develops Tiny Hard Drive for Mobiles. 0.85-inch diameter hard drive that could store 2 to 3 gigabytes of data.

Rusty — JabberWookie 1.0.1 and Java Application Monitor 1.0 (JAMon).

Padraic — java Business process management — jbpm.

EJP 2.0, an Extensible Java Profiler.

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Cameron — Too funny .. (off topic).

Living Tomorrow Today. Home of the Future in Amsterdam.

Web Services Tool Kit for Mobile Devices. Version 3.0.0.

jGossip, a simple and powerful forum implemented on J2EE platform using the Struts framework.

Carlos — Open Source Profilers for Java.

Matthew — Ward goes Microsoft.

Russ — Windows Mobile UI Tutorial, Mobile Download Managers and Nokia's Content Syndication Program.

Matt — Wi-Fi is a key ingredient in "Multiradio".

Behrang — Another JGoodies Masterpiece.

Rusty — Ivan Moore has released Jester 1.3.0.

Michael — Common Sense Please.

Michael — Most difficult exam.

Andrew — Where for art though, wifi?

Bill — Yeah, ease of use my ass.

Rickard — Java as screensaver - Bob to the rescue.

Kevin — Will the real VOIP please stand up?

Saddam capture a Net news win. The news broke after most of the nation's newspapers had gone to print.

Apple: iTunes downloads top 25 million.

jboard, a bulletin board project based on Struts, Tiles, JSTL, XHTML and CSS2.

Anil — The Treo 600 gets MIDP 2.0.

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Java Tiny Gfx Library, a New OpenSourced Tiny Java Graphics Library.

Martin — All Change to WiFi, Please, All Change… and Where For Art Thou WiFi?

Chris — WiFi Anywhere: The Pocket Router.

Rusty — Cougaar 1.2 is a memory profiler that is not based on the Java Virtual Machine Profiling Interface (JVMPI).

Daniel — Holiday Pictures.

Kasia — Best billboard ever.

Dan — Voice over IP. Or not.

End of Life for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0. December 31, 2003.

Canada says P2P downloading legal. In the same ruling, Canadian copyright regulators also impose a $25 fee on iPod-like MP3 players and say that uploading is prohibited.

Walt Mossberg is down on the new Smartphones. The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg doesn't have many good things to say about Samsung's…

WiFi cAntenna reviews. Overclockers Club review of two WiFi antennas, the 10-inch cAntenna Deluxe and the 5-inch Mini-Tenna from EtherDesigns.

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Russ — From Amazing to Plumbing: A year of WiFi.

Dominic — It's winter, time to Hibernate.

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Tip of the Day: Use Lazy Initialization to Conserve Resources.

Russ — Geek TV.

JML 4.1_rc4, Java Modeling Language.

Macromedia: Java Developers Wanted!

Anil — A Java Wrist Watch.

Record PC shipments in '03. 152 million, strong consumer demand for laptop PCs.

Don — Spoofing for Dummies.

Matt — Extending Your Wi-Fi Range: Passive Parabolic Waveguides.

How do Internet phone calls work? VoIP explained.

Emily — Cell Phones' Bad Rap.

Patrick — Another Web Framework - Shocks.

Internet shopping hits new high. Increased by 44% over the past year.

Time to reassess Brew. As Qualcomm gets serious about Europe.

Dump Lindows name or we'll take all your money, says MS. Another day, another injunction for Robertson…

David — Starbucks and WiFi in the UK.

Aiirnet to blanket US city with Wi-Fi. Hotzone to cover 8.6 square miles.

Ewan — Old Computers Don't Die… They Just Upgrade To Wi-Fi.

World's Largest Databases Ranked. The world's largest and most hard-working (in terms of load) databases are ranked.

Rogers — Regular expressions are beautifully ugly.

Rafe — Inexplicable WiFi problems?

jZonic, a Java framework for web-application supporting an XML workflow, XML sitemap management, connection pooling.

Beyond MVC: A New Look at the Servlet Infrastructure.

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Cultured Perl: Fun with MP3 and Perl, Part 1.

Charming Python: Review of Python IDEs.

Eye on performance: Micro performance benchmarking.

JavaHMO 1.1, a media server for the TiVo Home Media Option.

More About Handling Exceptions and Using HTML in Swing Components.

Jim — Wi-Fi Day.

Dave — IronPython.

Kevin — Groovy 1.0 beta 1 is available!

Kumar — J2SE: Update On J2SE 1.5 Early Access on Dec15th?

Matt — Export JSPWiki pages to HTML using Hula.

Bill — Tivo rc.sysinit.author.

Aaron — Search By Number.

Bryan — Sun javadoc comments entertain again.

Adobe reports $83 million Q4 profit, or 34 cents per diluted share.

Two Men Charged Under Va. Anti-Spam Law. Two North Carolina men were the first people charged under Virginia's anti-spam law.

Offshore outsourcing: Little effect on US jobs?

DVD Jon appeal ends: verdict before Xmas. But how did it even get this far?

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New BEA Industry-Standard Java Benchmark Results Nearly Double Previous World Record. SPECjAppServer2002 benchmark.

Rusty — Version 1.3.5 of BlueJ, a free integrated development environment (IDE) for Java aimed at education, has been released.

Gregg — JCreator 3.0.

M — Uploading SIP Services.

Ross — io.

JSch 0.1.12, a pure Java implementation of SSH2.

Mark — blojsim 0.9 released.

Security Experts Doubt SCO Was Attacked. Or was it?

Hitachi's fuel cell for PDAs. Hitachi says they're working with disposable cigarette lighter manufacturer Tokai on methanol-based fuel cells for handhelds.

Sony and Toshiba close to sampling Cell technology. 65nm process to begin trial production in Q1 '04.

ASUS updates AMD motherboard with WiFi. A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard.

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Eclipse plugin Verion Tree 1.0 released.

Crionics announces jPDF Template, Merger, Parser and Encryption.

Matt — MythTV 0.13, KnoppMyth and MiniMyth.

Mike — Sun finally becoming active in mobile space.

VoIP still needs breathing room. Jeff Pulver says federal regulators are poised to play Scrooge this holiday season by slowing the spread of Internet phoning technology.

Mark — blojsim v0.5 support's blojsom 1.8.

Cape Clear integrates data via Web services. Cape Clear Data Interchange.

Microsoft takes Lindows fight to Sweden. Wins restraining order.

Bill — Need better WiFi coverage?

Jeremy — A New Search Toolbar — From Copernic.

Mike — Formatted Dataset API.

Trolltech offers Qt Solutions developer tools suite.

Rui — Mozilla/Extensions/wmlbrowser.

City to offer wireless Web for all. Cerritos, California.

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Alan — SanDisk.

Kumar — Java Desktop System is here.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Eric — One Awesome IDE — CodeGuide.

Keith — Hire me.

Simon — My first SitePoint article.

JDraw 1.1beta, a pixel oriented image editor written in Java.

Sharp puts Word files on phones. The rendering software will be embedded in the new Vodafone V601SH Mobile Phone by Sharp, sold in Japan.

pENC 1.01, a Perl Source Code Encryptor.

Report: AT&T to offer Internet calling.

Sun sets Solaris x86 free. Almost two years after it went on hiatus, Solaris x86 has come back in full form with free downloads of the OS becoming available once again.

Qwest to Offer Residential Voice Over IP. The first Baby Bell to offer residential Internet phone service.

Russ — Big Decisions. Congrats!

Matthew — Google goes India.

James — a few things I find ugly with C# - virtual and override keywords.

Matt — Hibernate 2.1 Final Released!

Nick — Why No Java Interface for JVMPI?

Jeremy — Music Formats And The Death Of Ownership.

Simon — A major contribution to road safety.

Mark — blojsom turns 1.7.