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Object Caching in a Web Portal Application Using JCS. One way to improve server-side performance is to cache data instead of generating it over and over again.

Russ — SSH for Series 60!

Kellan — Source code documenting systems.

First U.S. mad cow case confirmed in Washington Sate. Local news says the farm is located in Yakima.

Tech Tips: Introducing J2EE 1.4 and The Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL)

RText 0.8.3, a Text Editor written in Java.

J2SE 1.5 Early Access For Javalobby Members.

David — IntelliJ Aurora, build 1024 available.

UJAC 0.9.3. Useful Java Application Components.

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Daniel — Have developers "forgotten their place".

Michael — Mobility is more than J2ME (and the job martket for 2004).

Daniel — Cameron's Challenge.

R.J. — Functional Programming in Java/Javascript.

Fred — J2MEUnit.

Paul — 1.5 Generics: Comments & Headaches.

Todd — Tiny URL's site is getting heavier demand.

Jim — Cinemas encourage piracy?

Tech Tips: Programmer Challenge.

Joe — Comments on java.beans.EventHandler.

Dave — Client-Side Java Survey: You could win a free X-Box.

Kevin — DRM 'Industry' hates freedom.

DOJ closes Net music antitrust scrutiny. After more than two years, regulators say big record labels didn't break any laws on the Internet.

Rumor: Cingular + AT&T Wireless?

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Will Sun's Java Studio Creator earn raves? Sun's software strategy highlights price, interoperability, and open source strengths.

James — Groovy 1.0 beta 2 released!

Bob — EJB is not magic.

Paul — Latest iPod replacement: Aigo.

Law firm considering iPod battery class action suit. I'm sure you can easily take Apple to small-claim court and win. It has been done before.

Mary Jo — XP SP2 Beta 1: Now Available on MSDN.

SCO opens new front in Linux war. SCO started sending out the first of an estimated 3,000 letters to companies, universities and other organizations that licensed Unix.

Max — EventHandler.java is Good but not perfect.

Kellan — Simple Test - Unit tests and mock objects for PHP.

PDAs in the year 2005. Steve Sande of PDAntic looks ahead to 2005.

David — IntelliJ Aurora, build 1019 is available.

Vattekkat — Quick UI for DocIndexer.

Research In Motion climbs after earnings report. Up by more than 40%.

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JawaBeginner1.6, a lightweight Java IDE Tool.

Carlos — A Definition of "Services".

Matt — SSH For Series 60 At Last!

Matthew — XML for the rest of us.

Paul — December Issue of the JavaRanch Journal.

Magnus — The 2003 weasel awards.

Danny — Wrong scent.

Jagzilla 1.1.0, a Java-based set of components for Bugzilla and Eclipse.

US broadband continues growth. Homes and businesses in the US are enjoying a healthy growth in broadband net connections.

Papal message goes mobile. Sign up to receive a thought of the day from the Pope.

Open letter to Michael Dell. John Dickinson: Your customer service just ain't what it used to be.

Verizon, Vodafone team on transatlantic 'texting'. Text back and forth across the Atlantic.

The USB dongle: a form factor worth plugging? Removable storage is only the beginning…

Dion — JCP Watch: Tiger Community Review, New life for JCache?

R.J. — When WILL SCO's Arguments Hold Water?

Installing MovableType on Panther. [via anil dash's daily links]

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I'd like to welcome Atlassian as my new Exclusive Sponsor.

Their flagship product, JIRA, has been featured on this blog numerous times. If you need to track bugs, you ought to check it out.

They've recently introduced Confluence, which I would describe as a groupware wiki.

Of course, they are also the guys behind java.blogs, which as I've said before, is a great resource for the whole Java-blogging community.

Digital Music Stores Reviewed. Napster 2.0, MusicMatch, WAL*MART Music Service and iTMS.

Russ — Symbian Dev continues towards OSS.

Anthony — Open Source - Fade To Black.

Vinny — My iTrip rocks my world.

Joi — My Nokia 6600 vs my Sony SO505iS.

Apple sold 1.79 iPods per minute in 2003. According to sales figures documented in Apple's annual filing with the SEC.

Punit — (funny) Portlet-my first impression.

Julian — dbActivity Program Is Now Open Source.

Linux Creator Torvalds Details Code Differences. Linux != Unix.

Developer Preview 2 of Java 1.4.2 is now available for Mac OS X v10.3 through the ADC download site.

Matthew — Open Source and Urine.

Danger Adds Java to Hiptop, Promises Software Downloads. J2ME support in next version of the OS.

DBMonster 1.0-beta4, a tool which generates random test data and puts it into SQL database.

VirtualMock 0.1.8, a Unit Testing tool. It uses Junit, Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and the Mock Objects testing approach.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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FirstSQL Releases FirstSQL/J Embedded Mobile Edition for Enterprise Mobile and Embedded Device Applications.

Russ — Series 90 Theme for the Nokia 6600.

Palm Has The Edge on Reliability, according to PC World survey.

Richard — Team meeting.

Howard — Presenting … my card.

Rui — blog/2003-12-22.

ZIP Code Visualizer. A Java-based map of the continental US that progressively narrows down the area covered by a ZIP Code as you type in the numbers one by one.

Java DBMS functions for MySQL 0.2. Provides Java DBMS functions for MySQL.

Java Psion Link 2.0 alpha 4. A Java implementation of the Psion Link Protocol.

SecureDigital now number one. SD takes on CF.

MySQL Quashes Defects in Database Release. The release cleans up code defects that were recently sniffed out by a third-party inspection company.

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I'm tentatively running Tomcat 5.0.16 on this server. Everything seems to be working so far… We'll see how it holds.

Jim — LoTR - RoTK.

Frank — T-Mobile: free WiFi for german users!!!!

David — blojsom 2.06 available.

Derek — Alien vs. Predator.

Hani — Commit sluts.

Andreas — TimeCore - Freeware Timetracking Software.

Rumors: Low Cost 2GB and 4GB iPods - in January?

Video game maker sues Microsoft. Mythic Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, charging it with trademark infringement and unfair competition in its marketing of an upcoming video title.

Walmart's Music Download Terms Say You Don't Own A Thing. "Current DRM has nothing to do with preventing piracy, everything to do with impairing consumer rights, competition and innovation."

RIAA Plans New Lawsuits Soon. Vowing to file more lawsuits "in the near future."

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Joe — You should write.

Paul — Here comes the free Net music.

I4U Top 10 Gadget Trends 2003. 2003 the year of Gadget Mainstream adoption and some shattered Gadget Dreams.

Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003 [via dive into mark b-links].

InfoWorld — 2003: The news in review.

Daniel — Open Source Developer Myths.

IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4 1.1.1. Video and audio improvements; fixed problems with RTSP and odd-sized video; and other minor enhancements and bug fixes.

Matthew — Movable Type 3.0.

Eugene — IntelliJ IDEA Personal license.

Brent — NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.7 released.

Michael — Magnitude 6.4 Earthquake.

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Subversion 0.35.1 Released.

Your Cellphone Is Keeping Tabs. Personal location devices.

Matt — New Toy^H^H^H Development Platform: Nokia 9290.

Laurent — Java regex.

Joshua — Swing Hack 7: Let it Snow!

Marc — index the jar.

Apple to sell software downloads? Plan predates iTunes Music Store.

I saw a couple of unexpected ads at the theater yesterday, one for Jamdat and one for LiveJournal.

Rusty — The Blackdown Project has posted the first release candidate of their version of the Java 2 Standard Edition for Linux 1.4.2.

Macworld: Steve Jobs Keynote: Jan 6, 9am PDT. Live QuickTime webcast.

iPatch 2.0, easy-to-use patch maker for Mac OS X.

Legal victory for 'DVD hacker'. DVD Jon cleared.

Today's sponsor is AdM+Partners.

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We just got back from LOTR: The Return of the King and dinner. Vicki liked the movie. I almost fell asleep, a few times.

Vincent — Cactus v2 architecture proposal.

Rajesh — TIME's Person of the Year: The American Soldier.

Behrang — Released: XDoclet 1.2.

Daniel — bloogmark: JNode - new Java Operating System.

Paul — Apple is Not Perfect Either…

Vinny — BEA making news!

Jeremy — The iPod Battery Controversy Hits The Mainstream.

Phillip — All-RSS-within-one-click finder.

EclipseME 0.0.5, faciliates the development of J2ME application within Eclipse.

Java Supplements 1.3.0, a library of Java utility classes to alleviate repetitive development tasks.

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Tutorial: Working with the sed Editor in Linux.

Paul — Jokes.

JTextCheck 1.0-b3, a Text-checking API for Java.

Apple releases Mac OS X Server 10.3.2.

We now have UML Diagram for the Google Tag Library. Thanks to Sparks Systems for donating a copy of Enterprise Architect to the project, and thanks to Arjun for asking them to.

The Independent Qt Tutorial. How to setup, use and write an application with Qt.

Russ — CDMA Series 60 In the Works.

Matt — AppFuse 1.2 Released!

Paul — Former Apple Scientist: Apple experienced renaissance when Jobs left in 1985.

Today's sponsor is AdM+Partners.

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Python 2.3.3 released.

Russ — Nokia's Multi-Platform Style Sheet Example.

Laurent — Eclipse, SWT, Qt, KDE - What's the deal.

Dave — The JRoller theme contest..

Rusty — IBM's alphaWorks has released version 1.1.1 of the IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4, a Java class library for working with MPEG-4 video and audio.

Marc — UTF-8 Support on Siemens Devices.

Simon — When is a clock not a clock?

R.J. — New Eclipse L&F Changes are… Ehh…

Matt — Struts Menu 2.1 Released!

Simon — Cool Tools: ImageJ.

NewzCrawler v1.6 Beta 2. My favorite news aggregator.

Highlights from Apple's annual report. Apple filed its annual report (SEC form 10-K) with the Securities and Exchange Commission…

The Secret Lives Of Identity Thieves. Profile of a big identity theft operation in the NY Times.

Why Real sued Microsoft. Analysis Future battles beyond the PC.

How cellular stuff works. How Cell Phones Work.

Today's sponsor is AdM+Partners.

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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.