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Tutorial: Using Data Sources the Right Way Learn how to set up a version 5.0 data source through the IBM WebSphere Application Server.

Delivering SOAP Faults with Handlers. A way to make the handler generate a SOAP fault and return that fault back to the client.

Exploit JavaMail's SMTP and MBOX Support. Take a look at using this provider-based, J2EE API to send mail using SMTP and manage mailboxes using MBOX.

Uncoupling Struts. Support SOA with loose coupling of components.

C# Lessons: From a Java developers Perspective.

Rael — Sprint Treo 600 Update 1.10.

Brent — Darwine.

Cedric — Don't call super.

JML 4.1_rc5, a Java Modeling Language.

Pinocio — java.net nightmare.

Jeremy — Organizing Software For The Mac.

MyDoom variant attacks Microsoft.com. Same author, less damage.

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Daniel — Teachable Moments.

Homeland Security Announcing Cyberalert System Today. From the US National Cyber Security Division.

Kevin — ServerSide series on Naked Objects.

James — Guide to embedding Groovy inside a Java application and Groovy logo: the winner is…

Erik — Recent Tunes 2.0 Available.

Paul — Interesting new Napster 2.2 feature: Cheaper bulk purchases.

Rogers — Card-based programming environment stacks up.

Nick — All Zip's attachements now blocked to chalko.com..

iTunes-compatible AAC music store launches. Nupha has announced the launch of its international, cross-platform digital music store…

jGnash 1.7.1. A personal finance application written in Java.

Joe — New IntelliJ build… 1126.

Dion — Jakarta Releases POI 2.0 Final.

Frank — Orkut up again!

Matthew — Cluetrain resumes.

Intel preps 540MHz XScale chip. Bulverde to appear in May?

Michael — Innovative UI design for mobile devices.

Microsoft to remove support for usernames in http urls. No more @.

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Alan — Douwe Osinga Neat Toys.

Atlassian Confluence 1.0 beta 4, a Professional J2EE Wiki.

François — Video conferencing: future is now! :yes:

Matt — TiVoberry.

E*Trade Says Profit More Than Tripled and Amazon Reports First Full-Year Profit.

Toby — How to land a 747.

David — ecto 0.2.3.

Gru — Integration testing.

Simon — Pebble 1.4 beta 2 almost ready (and JIRA rocks!).

Leslie — Quick Links.

Paul — Free Tetris.

Ara — Hani Simpson ;-)

Cedric — Another game.

Rick — New Java Web Host.

MIDI tutorial for GarageBand. A tutorial discussing some of the basic answers to common questions about using MIDI devices with Apple's new GarageBand music software…

Java Implementation of Speex 0.9.2. A Java port of the Speex speech codec.

Linux on Mac: a POWER programmer's primer.

SanDisk ships 1GB Secure Digital card. $499.99.

SCO offers $250,000 reward for arrest of Mydoom worm author. Offering up to $250,000 for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for creating the Mydoom virus.

Review: Apple iPod 20GB versus Toshiba Gigabeat G20.

Hidden Google Tools. Not so hidden…

Mike — Typo Arbitrage On eBay.

A visit from the FBI. SecurityFocus columnist Scott Granneman.

James — Java profiling tools for OS X.

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Matt — Oscar Nods.

Daniel — Not a Design Pattern.

Buy Zaurus, Run OS X Apps. mySTEP.

Jeff — FREE AntiVirus program.

Rusty — Sun has released JFluid 1.3.1, a profiler for Java, and Rahul Kumar's Raining Sockets is an open source framework for writing servers based on Java 1.4's non-blocking I/O.

Jayson — Blarg #6: How do I become an expert Java developer?

Masayoshi — Release Note: RSSSearch v.0.5 - Technorati now supported.

SwingWT 0.78, an implementation of the Swing/AWT APIs over SWT.

Mike — DVD Jon To Sue Police.

Brent — TypePad and the Atom API.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

Thomas — Cool JSP tag.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Lance — Ant 1.6 import tag (#include one ant file into another)…

Palm OS 5.4 ships to developers. A pre-release of version 5.4 of the Palm OS is now available for developers.

jStart32 0.4, a Win32/exe wrapper to start Java applications .

Java Performance Tuning: Learning From Code: Fast Fail Iterators.

Java XTools 1.16. A collection of functions and features for Java and Java 3D.

Fast-Moving Virus Launches DDoS on SCO. A fast-spreading e-mail virus appears to be using infected machines to launch a distributed denial of service attack on the SCO web site.

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YourKit Java Profiler 2.0, a CPU and memory profiler.

Java News Center. A New site with a collection of Java News.

Matt — Doing the Numbers.

David — blojsom 2.10 available.

Jason — RSS to WAP, a reality.

Hani — Commons Collections 3.0 ha ha ha!

Mark — IntelliJ IDEA EAP #1122 out.

Brent — Apple Knowledge Base RSS feeds.

Mike — Music Royalties At All Time Highs.

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Daniel — Help Wanted.

WebWindow 3.13, a Java Web browser.

Rimfaxe Web Server 1.01. An open source JSP/Servlet container and web server.

Bob — Drools 2.0-beta-13 and GUI.

Paul — Mac market share hits new low in 4Q 2003.

FWB source code available for sale on eBay. Hard Disk ToolKit 4.5 - CD-ROM ToolKit 3.0 - DriveUp! 98 1.0. Bid starting at $65k.

Mary Jo  — Mike Rowe Makes Out Like a Bandit.

Nokia introduces visual radio. FM with pictures.

Tech Tips: JSP 2.0 Expression Language.

JamVM 1.1.1. A Java Virtual Machine conforming to the JVM specification edition 2 (blue book).

Matthew — Vertical Weblogs.

Russ — Jet Planes, Tow Trucks and Snow Covered Runways.

Frank — Steve Ballmer in Apple 1984 ad?

Jon — TDD *is* about testing.

Michael — J2EE beyond the enterprise (Nokia MMS Server Blurprint).

Don — Ads in Feeds.

Jason — Things I learned about Hibernate.

Creative Makes Beautiful (Wireless) Music. The Sound Blaster Wireless Music, a PC, and some speakers are all you need to deliver tunes anywhere in the house.

Beer spill shorts out Iron Maiden concert. Some idiot…

Gabriel — The Guide to Beheading Java.

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PKWare and Winzip Reach A Secure Zip Compromise. Compatible archive password protection.

Frank — Macintosh through the eyes of his creators.

Nick — JDK 1.5: Monitoring the JVM.

Bernard — Metrics 1.3.4.

Bill — Eclipse Debugger Rocks!

Kevin — Groovy 1.3b3 out - lots of stuff.

Jayson — Blarg #5: Are you aware that the source-code for www.jspbook.com isn't available?

Philippe — DbUnit.

Matt — [Review] Java Open Source Programming.

Sam — Apple's marketshare is irrevalent.

Juha — Weird Facts.

Vinny — Commons Collections 3.0 released.

Wendong — More Mobile Sites and MobileClipper: clipping service for mobile devices.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Marc — MyYahoo RSS feeds.

Simon — Sir Bill.

jTDS 0.6, a JDBC 2.0 type 4 driver for MS SQL Server.

Netflix 2007, $1 Billion; Online Music Stores Up in 2004. A little bold, aren't we?

Euro PDA biz sees first growth since 2000. Q4 sales rocket.

Prior consent does not mean opt-in. Email marketing.

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Danger Adds Java to Hiptop, Promises Software Downloads. J2ME and online software catalog.

JGoodies Forms 1.0.3, helps you lay out and implement elegant Swing panels quickly and consistently.

JNode: A new attempt at a Java Operating System.

Russ — Nokia 3660 is Coming…

Evan — objective c: first difference.

Michael — "In Search of a Gentler Java".

Keith — LinkedList vs. ArrayList performance tests and I won a Java keychain from Sun.

Mike — PHP Mesh - what the?! :)

Kevin — Orkut Is Failing.

Steve — Learn to Program (with Ruby).

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.8fc1.

Cedric — Trace wizardry.

Chuq — Spammers losing the spam war?

Omar — Bill Gates on Orkut.. well not really.

"First Macintosh Press Release". The basic Macintosh package will have a suggested retail price of $2,495 and will include the main unit, keyboard and a mouse.

Quartz 1.3.1. An Enterprise Job Scheduler.

We went to TGI Friday's for dinner to give the new Atkins-approved menu a try.

We had the Tuscan Sipanish Dip for appetizers. Sizzling NY Strip with Bleu Cheese and Sizzling Chicken with Broccoli for entrées. Quite good and affordable. Too bad they don't have any low-carb desserts.

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The Mac turns 20. Despite Microsoft's dominance, Apple fans remain loyal.

Create an Object-Oriented JavaScript Calendar Using the Façade Design Pattern.

JavaDOCHelper 1.5, a Javadoc View and Search Tool.

Brian — IDEA 4.0 - Is It Worth The Money?

Matt — Thumbnails From 3GP Video.

Russ — Orkut.

Frank — Happy Birthday Apple Macintosh!

Rael — Abacus Wristband Adjustment.

Mobitopia: Unfinished Revolution.

Apache License Updated to 2.0. Starting March 1st.

Kevin — Furl: your web page filing cabinet.

Rusty — JetBrains has posted the first release candidate of Intellij IDEA 4.0.

Dominic — Asynchronous Java web services.

Bill — Developments in Nokia-land.

Robert — Looking for an Interesting Short Term Contract?

Fred — New SDK MIDP2 for SonyEricsson Handsets-J2ME.

Mark — Yum and repository mirrors, Quickies… and JIRA Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA 0.1.3.

Neil — Using HTTP/1.1 Persistent Connections to Speed Up HTTP GETs.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Ben — 20 years ago.

Chris — Useful SSH tips. [added to the wiki]

Kevin — Announcing LibDB.

Paul — Macky Birthday.

Steve — Bye Bye OS X.

Jon — Open source lock-in.

Erik — Happy Birthday, Macintosh!

Cédric — More DBUnit woes.

Paul — Macworld's Jobs interview raises questions.

Useful Java Application Components 0.9.5. A collection of components which may be useful for your project.

Todd — Bill Gates needs to call Hector Santos.

Mike — Music Industry Exec Defends Some File Sharing.

Apple's iTunes European Debut Held Up by Red Tape.

Weiqi — Tab Groups in IDEA 4.0.

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Werner — Are they for real? - Part II The Disspointment.

Mike — Pepsi Ad Using Kids Sued By The RIAA.

Trailer for Kill Bill, volume 2 is out. [via Amy]

Netscape, Playboy settle search trademark case. Netscape not liable for the unauthorized use of trademarks in search engine ads.

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David — One year ago today …

Mark — JIRA Plugin 0.1.1 for IntelliJ IDEA.

Matt — A few thoughts on AppFuse.

Don't Bet on Fuel Cells, Manufacturer Says. Don't count on the power packs to solve the energy crisis.

Kevin — The Ant Rebellion.

Simon — SpaceMonger.

Mac to turn 20 tomorrow. From icon to iPod.

Carlos — J2EE Clustering Without An Operating System.

Steve — review: nokia 6600.

JAD decompiler plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. New Release for Aurora 1113+.

Former Judas Priest Drummer Convicted. David Holland guilty of one charge of attempted rape and five counts of indecent assault.

Daniel — The Testing Bug.

Kenneth — Python RegEx Editor Visual Regular Expressions.

Hani — J3EE is moron bait.

Mike — Sir Howard Says RIAA Lawsuits Lead To Sony Music's Turnaround, How To Comply With A Total Failure and Kazaa To Sue Entertainment Industry For Copyright Infringement.

Design Pattern Toolkit. An Eclipse-enabled tool for generating applications based on customizable, model-driven architecture patterns.

Matt — On the Ever Increasing Pentium 4 Pipeline.

James— groovy 1.0 beta 3 released with new user guide and groovy jdk documentation.

Cedric — DBUnit doubts.

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Beyond the Basics of JOptionPane and Monitoring Class Loading and Garbage Collection.

Mobitopia: Going Underground and T-Mobile Germany announces Blackberry programming contest.

Tobias — JAXB and Typsafe Enums.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Stefano — Geek Humor.

DbUnit 2.0, a JUnit extension targeted for database-driven projects.

Jwapmail 1.1, a WAP-based IMAP email client written in PHP.

Todd — Identity Theft on the Rise.

Mike — FBI Arrests Actor's Friend For Putting Screener Online.

I've installed Tomcat 5.0.18 on my server, pretty smooth upgrade process overall. The included version of jsvc doesn't compile. I had to edit native/home.c and add a semicolon at end of line 110.

Smartboot, J2EE on a CD.

J2EE Article: Load Control Filter.

Arjun — Generic Java sour grapes!

Robert — New Open Source RSS News Aggregator.

Brian — Java Class Modeler: Actually Quite Useful :)

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Juha — Ant vs. Maven.

Alan — WebProxyBOT v1.1.

Andrej — Unit tests to validate html?

David — IntelliJ Aurora EAP #1117 available.

Felipe — Extra! Extra! Lomboz has gone open source!

Lasse — Code coverage article in January's JavaRanch Journal.

Matt — Turn off sessions in your JSPs and Tomcat 5.0.18 Released.

Mark — IntelliJ IDEA EAP #1117 changes licence filename and location.

Mike — Python/Perl for Series 60.

Simon — Simple tricks for more usable forms.

Yahoo to tango with Fandango. Multiyear deal.

Google debuts Friendster-clone Orkut . Will you be my friend?

Hollywood drops DVD lawsuit. Decryption code is not a trade secret anymore.

NewzCrawler v1.6 Beta 3, my favorite RSS aggregator.

mod_python 2.7.10. This release addresses a vulnerability in mod_python 2.7.9 whereby a specific query string processed by mod_python would cause the httpd process to crash.

Jeremy — My Yahoo! RSS Beta Launched

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Daniel — The java.net Linux community.

SnipSnap 0.5.1. A Weblog and Wiki tool.

Matthew — User forums on OSDir.

RSS Ads. Coming soon.

JSch 0.1.13. A pure Java implementation of SSH2.

British Parliament takes on the iPod's dirty secret. Battery life controversy.

Intel: On Track to Deliver WiMAX This Year.

I've been knee-deep in APIs lately and getting a little help from my friends. I'm starting to think Diego was right when he IM'ed me: "This is why I write my own code for all this crap." — Thanks, man.

Reading Data from the Internet. Yakov shows that working with the streams over the Internet may be as simple as dealing with files on your local disk, in the sixth installment of Java Basics

jZonic-cache v1.1, a Java framework for web-application supporting XML workflow, XML sitemap management, connection pooling, etc.

Novell to Join Eclipse. Novell endorses Eclipse as "the integrated development environment of choice for all Novell products."

Business Integration-Information Conformance Statements for Java. An XML vocabulary and Java implementation for declaring comprehensive business information conformance.

Guillermo — Java Server distro CD?

Cedric — 2004 the year of Linux? I don't think so.

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Microsoft .NET and Java: Achieving Interoperability.

Java/.NET Interoperability via Shared Databases and Enterprise Messaging. Not as sexy as Web services, but…

Hosting NET Controls in Java. Using JNI and some COM interop magic, you can host .NET Windows controls directly in your Java applications.

Calling Java Classes Directly from .NET. Adding an interoperability layer that gives .NET direct access to Java classes.

Rick — Java Tools Dominate "Codie Award" Finalists.

Matt — Unofficial SUSE FAQ.

Matthew — What is myCokeMusic.com missing?

Russ — Getting my hands on a Sprint Phone.

Angsuman — Blogger API Reference for Blogger.com.

Carsten — The truth about the Java endorsed directory.

Punit — Portal Software Market Share.

Matt — Poor Open Source Developers.

Wendong — PayCircle: open payment APIs.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Bill — Other interesting RSS Feeds.

Ovidiu — SCO attacks GPL.

Erik — 10 Things to Improve Writing.

JSwat 2.20, a JPDA based graphical Java debugger.

AOL tests caller ID for e-mail. Antispam filter.

Mike — How Do You Remember Sites?

Web music piracy fight 'working'. The global record industry says it is winning the fight against internet piracy.

Faces Console 1.0 Beta 2. A standalone Java Swing application for managing JavaServer Faces-based applications.

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