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JavaMail's Flexible Protocol Support. The JavaMail API and its support of mail and other protocols makes it ideal for creating e-mail tools.

Matt & Rick Invent New, Super-Secret Java Handshake.

Effective Unit Testing with DbUnit. Writing unit tests first can be impractical when your code will depend on access to a database.

Managing Your Dependencies with JDepend. Attributes like scalability and maintainability are qualitative in nature and hard to quantify, even hard to know until your code fails.

Matt — Scripting Symbian: The Plot Thickens.

Russ — PalmOne continues getting it, now how about PalmSource?

RIAA Back in Court. Here we go again.

Pete — Using Java Web Services with CFMX.

Blaine — Java based photo gallery constructor.

Dion — SuSE's BEA partnership boosts Java on Linux.

Joe — New… handshake?

Matt — Mock Shmocks!

Mark — Atlassian Jira IDEA Plugin.

Bill — Debuggers are for pussies.

Mike — DbEdit new release.

Steve — a new class of device.

Kevin — FeedParser in CVS with Atom Support.

Rui — Link Mode.

AOL: You've got 99-cent movies . Time Warner's America Online is offering broadband users downloaded movies for 99 cents each.

Cell phone most hated, but needed. Americans are ambivalent about their cell phones.

Todd — Wired comes out with 2003 Vaporware Awards.

Mike — Writing Software? Setting Up A Website? How Many Patents Do You Violate?

Microsoft watch requires three-fingered reboot. A SPOT of bother.

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Taming Tiger: Pre-release of Tiger is now available.

J2ME 101, Part 4: The Generic Connection Framework.

Tutorial: Migrate your Swing application to SWT.

JSOS ver. 3.65 released. Servlets office suite.

Rusty — Nokia has submitted Java Specification Request 234, Advanced Multimedia Supplements, to the Java Community Process.

Benoit — Quelques pointeurs sur java.util.regex.*.

Matt — Coldtags - I dig the product and the support.

Simon — Testing MVC actions, mock objects and code coverage.

Adam — Generating UML Class diagrams.

RealRadix — Generate album covers for iTunes.

Michael — Free After Rebate.

Knut — First experiences with Confluence.

IBM Developerworks offers Linux on Mac primer.

MySQL develops new graphical admin tool. Announcements at LinuxWorld.

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My evil brother, Erik Thauzin. Thanks, Rick.

Javalobby is doing a fantastic thing with mycgiserver.com. Now's that what I call community spirit.

Frank — SPOT on, Microsoft! and Rumour: Handspring Treo 610 announced.

Bill — Farewell, JavaWorld, and Thanks.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Aslak — Static or Dynamic Mock: A brief comparison.

Netcraft: Fastest Growing Large Hosting Companies in 2003.

Rui — HOWTO.

IBM's Java-Based "Glass Engine". Developed at IBM and written in Java, a research project at IBM has spawned new way of searching and organizing information.

Nick — Talking about Java 1.5.

Jim — The Joy of Specs. Amen!

Daniel — Starting Simple.

Steve — Struts limitation.

Eclipse RSS Reader 1.1.0. Nice!

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Introduction to JavaServer Faces. Developing Web Interfaces with JSF.

Russ — URL Rewrite Filter.

Dion — Opinion: Porting between Java and C#.

Satya — A quick refresher on CSS selectors.

Bob — Mock objects made easy..

Ovidiu — Ben Affleck's stupid car.

Rui — Java/MIDP/Bluetooth Browser.

SpamAssassin 2.63, a mail filter which attempts to identify spam using text analysis.

Microsoft settles music download suit. E-Data's patent-infringement suit against a European division of Microsoft and others ends in a deal.

SCO sues Novell for slander of title over Unix. Engaged in bad faith efforts to deny rights to Unix and UnixWare.

Mike — Booble For Porn Before Google's Lawyers Show Up.

Cingular Offers $27 Billion for AT&T Wireless. Opening bid.

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Daniel — Easier but not dumbing down.

Joe — Write Once, Test Everywhere?

Mathias — Quartz and OpenSymphony and OSCore 2.2.2 Released.

Ara — Memento.

Hani — How to be popular.

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Russ — It's my Birthday! Happy B-Day! 

Mike — Sony Launches The Smart Display Microsoft Just Dumped.

Andrew — Jakarta Tapestry Resources.

David — blojsom 2.09 available.

Matt — AppFuse vs. Spring.

Markus — Sun working on new Language.

Haiko — Quick Links, January 20.

Steven — Don't install GarageBand!

Navicat 5.0, a MySQL manager for OS X that I use on a regular basis.

JCache Open Source 1.0a5, an implementation of the JSR-107 JCache API.

Red Hat offers SCO insurance. Is anybody NOT offering insurance?

Leslie — Quick Links.

Today's sponsor is Mobitopia.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

Daniel — Endorsing a front runner.

Matthew — Movies are not razor blades!

Russ — Cube Humor.

Rael — Textamerica Camera Phone Tips.

David — IntelliJ Aurora EAP #1113 available..

Alan — NotGoodEnough.com.au.

JMXUnit 0.1, supports JMX vendor independent testing of JMX MBeans.

New Java Widgets For Eclipse. German-based Innoopract released an Eclipse plug-in to its popular World Wide Web Windowing Toolkit (W4T).

Mike — Coca-Cola Music Site Experiences Technical Difficulties.

Goldy — 7 tips to improve Server Side Java Performance.

The Periodic Table of Condiments. [via Fishbowl]

Andrew — What's on my laptop?

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Frank — Bluetooth & MIDP 2.0 sites.

Anthony — Persistent Login Cookie.

Apple posts latest iPod ad. "Channel Surfing" by Feature Cast.

Diego — feedexplorer. Ubber cool!

Howard — More on Tapestry and JSF … and greater issues, such as the JCP and the future of Sun and Java.

Rusty — Sebastiano Vigna has released version 4.0 of fastUtil.

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Russ — Sending SMS Messages From Your Computer, Why JSTL Continues to Rock, Mobile Publishing and Avatars for Mobile Video Conferencing?

David — IntelliJ Aurora EAP #1108 is out.

Gregg — MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench Rocks!

Matt — [Review] J2EE Design and Development.

Mike — JavaBlogs and response codes.

Robert — Examples for "More on getters and setters".

Mark — Blackdown Java 1.4.x for AMD64.

Ted — Some Python tips.

Werner — Re : Sending SMS Messages From Your Computer.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Dave — XML Error Handling in Web Browsers.

Dave — Digital Audio Round-up.

Keith — Links.

Erik — FTPeel 1.1, MailDrop 1.3.1.

Charles — Confluence Beta 2… er… 3.

Java SOS 3.65, a Java Servlets office suite.

Tweaking MySQL (4.x) Primer. Optimizing your MySQL 4.x database server.

I spent five hours on the phone with Rick Ross (of Javalobby) on Saturday afternoon. I think we effectively fixed everything that is wrong in the world. Stay tunned. ;-)

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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Ocean — Helma.

Jason — P900 J2ME Toolkit/Bluetooth Woes.

Matt — Win2VNC is very cool.

Wendong — More MIDP 2.0 Phones from Motorola.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Jeffrey — Evengelizing wikis.

Keith — Links.

DrPython 2.0.3. Cross-platform IDE for Python. 

Robert — NewsGator Mobile Edition.

JILetters 0.0.5. A Java-based alphabet learning assistant.

Open Source Awards 2004. Valgrind, VideoLAN, JACK, and Pango.

Diego — movies, movies, movies.

Russ — MobKnowledge.com and Nokia to release Perl for Series 60!

Arjun — iPod in the house!

Rusty — JBarcodeBean 1.0.2 and EditiX 1.0.

Ben — Java in Your Stereo?

Jon — Using Ruby to build Java systems.

Kevin — ClassLoader's are tricky… here's a few tips.

Jon — jCoverage 1.0.5 GPL Version.

Ken — pay good money for good tools.

Masayoshi — Release Note : RSSSearch v.0.4.

Matt — Revoking a GPG key.

Jeremy — Craigslist RSS Search Script.

Ara — J3EE on the horizon.

EclipseME 0.1.0, cross-platform Eclipse IDE plugins to facilitate development of J2ME applications.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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Tom — .NET on Panther.

Asymmetric Encryption Keys With the KeyPairGenerator and Encryption and Decryption Using Symmetric Keys.

My feed is now listed on java.net.

BeepLite Networking Layer. A Java implementation of BEEP (Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol).

Daniel — Not wild enough.

Matthew — iLife '04 and Microsoft.

Russ— Unsurprisingly…, Nokia to release Perl for Series 60! and 1350 Referrers.

Thurrott returns to the HP iPod. WMA support is disabled in the iPod's firmware, HP wants it.

Anthony — Java RSS Parsing.

Rusty — DateChooser 1.2.4.

Blaine — Free font - my scribbled printing.

Dominic — .NET Compact framework Namespace posters.

James — [email protected] - "The Demos".

Toni — Tomcat Tutorial: HelloWorld for Complete Fools ;-)

Michael — Functionality first, compatibility second.

Matt — Resin 3.0.5 Released! and AppFuse 1.3 Released!

Howard — Kito Mann Interview about JSF.

Hani — Kill the TDD crowd.

Adam — photo fuck.

Rick — Non-obvious Code Should Obviously Be Killed.

Bill — Extracting files from an RPM archive. [added to wiki]

Erik — The Transition to X.

Using WebObjects: More Practical Tips and Tricks.

Java Telnet Daemon 1.0. An embeddable telnet daemon written in Java.

New 20GB MP3 player from Philips. HDD120.

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I just discovered IZArc and I like it, especially the fact that it supports association with JARs and WARs. I emailed the author about supporting EARs too.

Feds Order Microsoft to Fix Music Browser Override. “Shop for Music Online” to be tweaked.

Carlos — WebStart for .NET.

FavIcon Generator. Easy favicon.ico generator.

Kenneth — HP Ipaq H2210/H2215 Review.

Paul — Palm Tungsten C v Sony UX-50.

W3C moves ahead with mobile Web standard. CC/PP 1.0.

Jim — Infamy.

Kenneth — AMD Ships Mobile AMD 64 Processors.

eBay joker auctions off West Virginia. Drew 56 bids and nearly enough $ to fill in the state's budget hole.

What's New in the J2EE Connector Architecture 1.5 (Part 2). Learn more about the Message Inflow and Transaction Inflow contracts.

Pinocio — Releasing two MIDP 2 games.

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Russ — Task Switcher for Symbian Devices.

Rael — Defending the miniPod.

Ryan — The Server Side.net using Java?

Steve — iBook woes - Is this number 6?

Nokia loosens reins for developers. The more you pay the more you get.

Mike — Latest Studies Say RIAA May Have Declared Victory Too Soon.

Judge upholds ruling against Microsoft in browser patent case. Ordered to pay more than $520.

I went to QFC late last night to buy some milk and found out, to my surprise, that they are selling pre-paid Napster Music Download Cards at the cash register. $14.85 for 15 downloads.

Supercharge Your Java Web Applications with Translets. Translets, a brand new addition to Java, can improve your Web application performance multiple fold.

Fatten Up Your Java UIs with JGoodies. A basketful of JGoodies is all you need.

JTGL, a Java Tiny Gfx Library.

Matt — Device Capability with RDF.

Dave — Thoughts on Blogging The Market.

Andreas — Brain Teaser #1: the same but not equal.

Keith — Links.

Mozilla updated to version 1.6. Several Mail enhancements.

Tutorial: MySQL Crash Course, Part 2.

Gillette Unveils Pulsing Shaving Razor. M3Power, a souped-up version of the Mach3Turbo featuring 62 patents, battery-powered.

AntRunner 2.1. Use Ant within JBuilder 4-9 and JBuilderX.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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Java Guru Spills The NetBeans, Welcomes Competition. James Gosling weighs in.

Rankings for Basic Cable Networks. Fairly Odd Parents, SpongeBob and WWE.

Review: Sony Ericsson T630.

Intel Adds 11g to Centrino. Took long enough. 

Review: Athlon 64 FX Motherboards.

Nick — TheClientSide.com??

Keith — Links.

Apple to be debt-free Feb. 16; sells remaining stake in Akamai.

JDraw 1.1.1, a pixel oriented image editor written in Java.

Mike — Where Do They Come Up With These Patents?

Popeye turns 75. The Empire State Building plans to shine its tower lights green from sundown to midnight over the weekend. Spinach loving freak!

End of Life for Red Hat 7.x, 8.0. RH 9 will reach its end-of-life on April 30.

Zaval JRC 2.0, a Java Resource Editor.

J2ME 101, Part 4: The Generic Connection Framework.

Tutorial: XML programming in Java technology, Part 1.

Sue — MIDP 2.0 - Fun yes, but not just games.

Sun posts net loss of $125 million for the second quarter of its 2004 fiscal year.

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Daniel — Clean Fill Dirt.

Diego — file sharing = piracy? Not really.

Rusty — Relaxer 1.0 and XMLBuddy Pro 2.0.2.

Benoit — Mon avis sur hirbernate.

Jeremy — Java in Space.

Niel — JSPWiki Has Many Templates.

WinSCP 3.5 released.

<oXygen/> XML Editor 3.0 released.

Apple announces Logic Pro 6, Logic Express 6, Soundtrack 1.2. Computer-based music production.

Pete's Blackjack 1.2, a blackjack card game.

CD singles to go 'in three years'. CD singles will be phased out in the US within three years, according to a leading chart expert.

Sony Unveils New Aiwa Multimedia Players. Aiwa USB Audio players using the "Pavit" proprietary storage format.

Microsoft Vows Appeal of Latest Browser Ruling. The controversial '906 patent spat has taken a new turn with a judge ordering Microsoft to pay $521M in damages.

Mike — One By One, Hollywood Admits Movies Show Up Online.

Want Free Wi-Fi With That Latte? Shlotzky's free Wi-Fi service.

Michael — Ringtone is big business.

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I started a Wiki. Right now it only has a collection of tips gathered over the years. I'm sure there will be more to come. I have to admit that JSPWiki totally rocks.

Java Scripting: Half the Size, Half the Time. BeanShell and PNuts.

Hibernate your Data. One way to improve server-side performance is to cache data instead of generating it over and over again.

Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming.

Matt — Revenge of the Roundup.

Matthew — Planet Apache.

Russ — Nokia 6620: It MUST BE MINE!!!!!

Anil — A Nokia 6600 with an EDGE (Nokia 6620 US).

Vive la Différence. A new site asks visitors to vote on whether an object is male or female.

Dominic — IBM J9 JVM works on my Toshiba e355.

Kathy — MIDP 2.0 is just too much fun..

Luke — JBuilder, Eclipse or IDEA? No contest…

Matt — MD-5 password encryption and the "secret key".

Ted — pydoc.

Jeremy — The Future Of Domain Names?

Pankaj — Pretty Good Tutorial on XPath …

JFaceDbc 2.2.1, a JDBC client.

Apple finishes '03 as No. 5 PC vendor with 3.2% share. 0.2% decrease.

Sync4j 1.2. An Open source SyncML server and framework.

HP: $2.5 Billion in Linux Revenue in '03. Linux-related revenue was more than $2.5 billion in 2003.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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Russ — Nokia's Series 60 XHTML-MP Guide.

Deploy Your J2ME Application on a Sprint Phone. Fun stuff with .jads.

TSS Article: Testing Java Classes with JUnit.

Mark — IntelliJ IDEA EAP #1101 out.

Niel — iReport Further Improves Using JasperReports.

Scott — Cell Phone Ring Tones Hit $3.5 Billion in Sales and Washington Mutual to Trial CD Auctions Using eBay.

TIL Over RSS. Apple's now got RSS feeds for the Knowledge Base.

Cameraphones as Weapons of Mass Disruption. The list of places where cameraphones are being banned is growing at an alarming rate.

Guillaume — How SmartCVS saved my life.

Rui — Backlog.

Apple posts $63M profit. Up 36% for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2004.

Prevent Web Application Hijacking. Let Web applications' vulnerability to security and policy breaches inspire you to build more secure apps

Glen — Our first staffer (and our Java Spamfilter).

Mini Pricing. It appears that the latest iPod mini from Apple costs twice as much as it should.

Yahoo meets estimates; revenue soars. $75 million net profit.

Haiti government kisses ICANN ring, rewarded with control over own domain. .hk redelegation reveals rot at heart of Internet

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Michael — How many virtual machines can you nest?

Sam — New adventures in Character Encoding.

Matt — Macromedia's Flex.

Daniel — java.net Newsletters.

Jim — MobiSlackers or not?

Matt — Maestro: Works on Windows, Linux, and Solaris Too!

Chris — What about MMS Voicemail?

David — blojsom 2.08 available.

Did you know that the Toyota Prius is equipped with Bluetooth?

Eclipse Foundation to separate from IBM. To be voted on during the Eclipse technical conference.

Matt — Sunken/Highlighted Input Fields with CSS.

Howard — Andrew C. Oliver's Parting Words.

Keith — Links.

Mike — Interface design job at Nokia.

Experts: No Mobile Phone Link to Health, but more research needed.

FCC chair wants to overturn decision on Bono curse. UnFuckingBelivable.

Matt — Kodak to Stop Making Film Cameras, But They Sucked Anyway.

Aaron — ColdFusion & log4j.

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

Russ — More Bluejacking Fun!

Kodak to Stop Selling Traditional Cameras in U.S. The move is an effort by Kodak to cut lines with declining appeal in favor of fast-growing digital products.

Larry Ellison weds again. Fourth time, to novelist Melanie Craft.

Anti-Richard Saunders's Weblog: I am against Richard Saunders.

Keith — OSCAR Protocol Documentation Project updates.

Nick — IntelliJ… lost its way?

Mark — The origins of X-Priority.

Bruce — Rethinking weblogging (and everything else).

Leslie — Quick Links.

Rajesh — Apple's Intelligent Pricing.

Steve — An Epiphany.

Rui — Projects/vcard 2 ldap.

Kevin — Are Applets Making a Comeback.

Quartz 1.3. Quartz Enterprise Job Scheduler.

Learning Cocoa: Repurposing Variables.

jZonic-Cache 1.0, a Java-based caching system.

NBC's “Today” show premiered in 1952.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.