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Sun Java tool targets Microsoft. Sun will show off a new, simplified Java development tool next month intended to steal programmers from rival Microsoft's camp.

Eclipse Checkstyle v3.1 released.

Diego — there is no spoon: a review of Matrix Reloaded.

Handango Announces Annual Handango Champion Award Finalists.

Clustered JDBC 1.0alpha2, a cluster of databases through JDBC.

Congress slams spam. Spam costs U.S. businesses $10 billion each year in lost productivity.

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Philip — Wireless Internet in the US = Neo-Feudalism?

Azure, a weblog client for your phone.

Fred — J2ME Bug 4834025 and The RDF.NET Challenge.

Joe — OrionSupport beta status.

Arjun — More free books ;)

Joey — Jython Is Just Too Useful.

Jon — Googling for social security numbers.

Wireless helps cuts net costs. Wireless technology could help people cut the cost of broadband by sharing the connection with neighbours.

JSwat 2.1.7, a a graphical, stand-alone Java debugger built on top of the Java Platform Debugger Architecture.

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Wireless Virtualization: Data and Databases.

JDBC query logging made easy.

Enhance J2EE component reuse with XDoclets. XDoclet enables simplified continuous integration with component-oriented development using attribute-oriented programming.

Developing JFace wizards. Regardless of the language you're using to develop a GUI application, an interactive mechanism to gather user's input is essential.

Data binding with JAXB. Learn how to use data binding to easily map data stored in XML documents to Java objects and back again.

A JSTL primer, Part 4: Accessing SQL and XML content.

XmlStarlet 0.2.0, a set of command line utilities which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents.

Jim — Better blogging.

Fred — HotSpot for J2ME.

Dominic — Free JDO book PDF.

Blaine — AnyEdit — free IDE for many languages.

Merrick — JAXB Redux.

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Matt — Typepad Update.

Scott — My Palm Tungsten C Experiences.

E-mail spam costs business £3bn. A survey by Yahoo finds junk e-mails will exceed legitimate ones in the next two months…

New desktops coming from Sony. A whole bunch of new Vaio desktop PCs coming from Sony.

Developers: WWDC Early-Bird Registration Ends Friday.

Sun to Bridge the Java Skills Gap and boost Java developers to 10 million.

Orinoco, a Java API to generate PDF documents..

Java Excel API, a Java API for reading and generating Excel spreadsheets dynamically.

Jim — The future of public wireless access points? and More Python blogging tools.

Henri — JIRA!

Werner — Eclipse “getting connected” more info as we get along.

Martin — SWT Links.

Simon — JavaOne ticket for $100 on eBay.

Gérard — The opensource advantage over Java.

Tenney — Create the Jike dependencies report using Ant.

Hakim — IntelliJ IDEA — first impressions.

Simon — ‘Point-and-click’ programming.

Paul — Here's a nice article on camera phones and MMS.

EJOSA Template 1.2 , Enterprise Java Open Source Architecture.

802.11g close to standards approval, according to c|net…

Next for cell phones: nudity. Pictures of Playboy models will be available for download on European cell phones.

ReplayTV might remove commercial skipping. New ReplayTV Models May Skip Some Features .

On May 22, 1868 — The “Great Train Robbery” took place in Indiana. The robbery was worth $96,000 in cash, gold and bonds to the seven members of the Reno gang.

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A Java Programmer Looks at C# Delegates. Steven Lewis and Wilhelm Fitzpatrick explain delegates and provide a working Java implementation.

Kevin — My BBEdit Contest Entry.

Danny — Quick References.

J2ME VNC Client Alpha 2.9 released.

Opera wails about MSN problem. MSN says the problem, if any, is perfectly innocent.

Russ — Borland's Looking for a J2ME QA Person.

Mike — JettyPlus looks cool!

Scott — Apple's Half Note?

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Patrick — Why we use Struts.

Andres — Accumulating Dust and JBoss setup under Redhat Linux.

Blaine — KickJava — Java APIs with Examples & free Java book downloads.

Rick — Matrix Sunglasses.

JDO Learning Tools 1.0 beta 1, a set of tools that demonstrate the behavior of Sun's Java Data Objects.

Diego — more on SCO v. Linux.

Andy — I'd have to agree.

Mock Objects 0.09, generic unit testing framework and methodology for testing any kind of code.

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I installed Opera 6 on my Zaurus using the OperaCreator for linux. It required a little bit of tweaking, but it all worked in the end.

Review — Java Enterprise in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference.

Diego — 'push to talk' goes global.

David — Re: Velocity? Jython? What do they think?

Luke — Lies, Damn Lies, Benchmarks and Carlos Perez.

JMP 0.30, a Java Memory Profiler.

Sun has posted the first beta of the Java Access Bridge for Windows 1.0.4.

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Diego — browsers galore.

Playboy is coming to your handset. Playboy has announced a global deal to bring the magic of bunnies to your handset.

Dominic — J2EE XDoclet article.

Simon — Java Extreme Programming Cookbook (O'Reilly).

Prashant — Mozilla Plugins.

Arjun — Re: Very Good XML resource for developers.

Lars — What's coming in JDK 1.4.2?

François — Comment accélérer le développement logiciel…

Carlos — JDK 1.4.2-beta Now The Numerical Speed Leader.

Matt — www2003.

Heinz — "hi there".equals("cheers !") == true.

CNET review of Sharp's Zaurus SL-5600 Linux-powered PDA.

Picture this. View Web camera snapshots using a J2ME-capable phone.

Time is right for WiFi successor, study claims. 802.16a or WiMAX.

W3C Adopts Patent Policy. After years of wrangling, the World Wide Web Consortium adopts a patent policy…

OASIS Ratifies UDDI 2 as Open Standard.

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Prove It, Don't Compute It. Don't change your Java code when your business rules change.

New Java Components for Go.Web. GoAmerica's new Java components simplify the creation of wireless-enabled applications.

Competition Heats JavaOne Stew. The stew that is JavaOne promises to be tasty this year.

Women text more than men. According to a survey conducted by the Mobile Data Association UK, 74% of women say they have used text messaging…

Mats — Cool thing about the XML editor in IntelliJ.

Rane — Database. The mother of all patterns..

Arjun — Freebook Bonanza - II.

Padraic — Debugging HTTP Made Easy.

Beginning Eclipse for Advanced Developers. Transitioning from emacs to the Eclipse IDE.

Boycott-RIAA.com Web Site.

On May 21, 1975 — Elton John became the first Western pop star to play in the U.S.S.R.

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Tech Tips: Drawing Dashed Lines with Stroke and Generating Custom Doclets.

Transforming iCal Calendars with Java. Apple is using human readable text files to store the data from some of its most popular applications.

Mike — Prevalyer - would YOU use it?

NEC to use Linux as 3G mobile phone OS. MontaVista Linux.

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Diego — googling your weblog.

Fred — Unix History.

Cameron — One-Upped by Carlos.

Brent — NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.3 Ships.

Simon — Defeating IE5 CSS bugs with the help of jwz.

New Linux PDAs Blur the Lines Between Laptop & PDA. The Zaurus devices run Linux—which has made them popular among devotees of that platform.

Leading Java tools and technologies. A list of finalists for the 2003 JavaWorld Editors' Choice Awards.

The Matrix Phone sells out. The new Matrix-themed phone from Samsung, the SPH-N270, has already sold out on the Samsung Matrix Online Store.

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WWDC Early Bird Registration ends Friday.

USPS Extends Bill Paying Services. Postal Service offers business users ability to make online payments.

Simon — Attended the London Java Meetup last night.

Cameron — The saga continues: Benchmarking with IBM JIT and I love JEdit.

Open Source Is Not a Magic Bullet. Java developers like open source software.

Review: Effective Java Programming Language Guide.

Review: Wireless Java: Developing with J2ME.

Which Language When? So many languages, so little time. How best to evaluate them?

The Story of the tech.net.ru Crackers. The Washington Post is running a story detailing the events of the arrest of two Russian crackers, Vasiliy Gorshkov and Alexey Ivanov.

Nokia Announces 6108 — Pen Based Phone.

Patrick — MVC debate, continued…

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As Arjun noticed, I am the author of a weekly column now appearing in the Java Developer's Journal Newsletter.

Alan approached me late last week with the idea. We brainstormed a little and got the ball rolling pretty quick.

A copy of my first column can also be found in the stories section of this blog.

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Mike — New MockObjects Releases — Finally!

Erik — JavaOne here I come!

Kevin — No OSS Java at JavaOne.

Glen — Fun with Decompilers.

Aaron — Couple good articles in JDJ this month.

Three tools make Java code review painless. PMD, Checkstyle, and Jalopy.

Vald — ActualAccessFlags: an undocumented .class format attribute.

Amtek's new Tablet PC. The T-1100 ID comes with either a 10.4 or 12.1-inch display, a 1.0GHz processor, up to 768MB of RAM, a 20GB hard drive, 802.11b, USB 2.0 and Firewire.

Wi-Fi Bike. Anyone with a wireless enabled laptop or device can connect to the Internet if the Magic Bike is nearby.

The fear war against Linux. Microsoft's connection to the anti-Linux campaign being waged by the SCO Group is becoming clear.

Dan — Borland Developer Survey.

SpamAssassin 2.55, a mail filter to identify spam using text analysis.

Werner — JBoss : Marc's reaction on sun's double vision.

Kevin — JAXP.

Matthew — iSync and 3650.

Papers written by Googlers.

Jim — Euro in the UK.

Apple Stores turn two; Tokyo, Chicago & San Fran locations announced.

XMLTask 1.6, provides the facility for automatic editing of XML files as part of an Ant build.

On May 20, 1993 — The final episode of “Cheers” was aired on NBC.

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Bluetooth LCD screen for eyeglasses. MicroOptical Demos Bluetooth Eyewear Viewers.

Benchmarks comparing 10.2.5 to 10.2.6. Comparing Mac OS X 10.2.5 and 10.2.6.

XOM 1.0d14, a tree-based API for processing XML with Java.

IBM's Rational cooks up Java plan. IBM's software group is getting ready to unveil a Java development tool.

Russ — Happy Moof Day! Happy Bday!

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Microsoft to purchase UNIX rights from SCO.

Russ — No More Cocoon For Me.

Siemens SX1 Preview Review.

Partick — Web architecture, Struts, Spring and WebWork2.

Eric — Only Five Java Databases?

Joe — Aqua Data Studio rocks!

Lars — Tips 'n' Tricks: How to keep JSP compilation results with JBoss/Jetty.

Vlad — Java class encryption: don't trust it.

Cameron — Now optimized, .NET test still falls behind Java.

Jeremy — No stand-alone market for Wi-Fi access.

Matt — Amazon Web Services.

Scott — MasterCard's 10-Q available online.

Simon — Syntax Highlighting with Javascript.

W3C Proposes SOAP Standard. SOAP 1.2

Napster reborn! Roxio buys PressPlay.

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Aqua Data Studio 3.0, a universal database tool for building, managing and maintaining enterprise relational databases.

Carlos — Refactoring to Aspects.

Thomas — Tools help us write better code….or worse.

I bought Java Performance Tunning yesterday. It should be an interesting read.

Vicki and I watched Equilibrium last night. While not the greatest movie, it had some of the best fight scenes I've seen in a long while. The Wachowski brothers could have learned a thing or two from it.

Reborn as Firebird, Mozilla Phoenix goes OS X.

.org registry vanishes into thin air. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

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CodeRally, a Java-based, real-time programming game based on the Eclipse platform.

WebWindow 2.1.1, a Java web browsing component.

IXED, a Web-based XML Editor for JSP.

Diego — blogging APIs - part 2 and some comments on the cactus release.

David — Only 5 Java-based databases?

Kurt — Hibernate + XDoclet Tutorial.

Werner — Eclipse “getting connected” preview : who will be there (May 22nd/23rd 2003, Brussels).

Mats — Yes, .Net is toast and Why the “Elements of Java Style” book drives me crazy.

Michael — J2ME versus .NET: Reloaded.

Andrew — POI 2.0-pre1 Released.

Paul — How (Not) to Get a Job.

Matt — Java performance myths / Reflection.

dIon — Maven gets WebSphere integration.

Cameron — Top Ten Reasons to use Java.

Carlos — Top Ten Reasons to Use .NET Debunked! and The Imminent Demise of .NET.

Charles — The Open Source Prime Directive.

PMD-jEdit-2.1, a Java source code analyzer plugin for jEdit.

Apple's own collection of iTunes4 tricks and tips.

Opera goes gold with version 7.11 for Linux.

Mac vs. PC: Which is better for business?

On May 19, 1911 — The first American criminal conviction that was based on fingerprint evidence occurred in New York City.

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Moblogging from the Regional Bellevue Library while Vicki is picking up some books. Maybe I'll go check their programming section while I'm here.

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Vicki and I went to see The Matrix Reloaded yesterday. She enjoyed it, I didn't.

• Neo: I'll fight a few dozen agents and just fly away.
• Morpheus: I'll just make another boring speech.
• Trinity: I'll just keep falling in slow motion.
• All: We'll just dance the night away.

Seriously… Everything felt stretched, re-used to death. The good parts definitely didn't outweigh the bad ones.

Very disappointing.

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Jon — Nanning 0.5 Released.

Adam — lotto ad.

Cameron — Top Ten Reasons to Use .NET.

Mark — The big day. Congrats!

Haiko — Mozilla Firebird 0.6 is out.

AspectJ for NetBeans 1.1rc2 released.

PDA-Search.net. A new search engine just for PDA-related searches.

Dell Axim X5 As Low As $152.23 Shipped. $248.63 for the 400MHz model.

'Matrix' magic rakes in a record $42.5M. Move over, Spider-Man.

On May 17, 1932 — The U.S. Congress changed the name “Porto Rico” to “Puerto Rico.”

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Jim — OPL, good, bad or ugly?

Fred — JavaOne Reject JavaBlog Party 2003.

Simon — Mac OS X : The Missing Manual.

Arjun — Very Good XML resource for developers.

Karl-Martin — IRC RSS aggregator.

Hakim — J2ME Floating Point Libraries.

Matt — Wi-Fi Zones.

Mock Objects 0.08, a generic unit testing framework and methodology for testing any kind of code.

A comparison of J2ME and the .NET compact framework. Part 2.

Sharp adds two new Zaurus Linux PDAs to SL-C7xx lineup. SL-C750 and SL-C760.

Journalist revisits iTunes quality issues. MSNBC's Gary Krakow.

FCC does wireless spectrum shuffle. The FCC is taking steps to make more efficient use of the available wireless spectrum.

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Arjun — Book Bonanza - List of free java books to download.

Fred — Guru.com sold for les than 1/10th value.

What's on my iPod? Steven Berlin Johnson wants to know how some Duran Duran and Depeche Mode songs mysteriously ended up on his iPod.

Dion — Beautiful Code.

Cameron — .NET performance still seriously lags Java.

Cedric — Boring is not beautiful.

Bryce — SL-5500 ROM Update.

Joust 0.9: Java OSCAR (AIM) libraries.

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Novell to Extend Java support. Web application development suite can now be ported across all J2EE servers.

Tony — WiFi and the Law.

Henri — What I hate about Java.

Ole-Martin — findBugs.

Eric — Red Hat RPM Guide is Out and Java Databases.

Sam — Caching Grammars with Xerces.

Carlso — Six Degrees of Iterator.

Change Safari's default search engine — revisited.

Apple releases Java update for Oracle. Apple has posted Java 1.3.1 Update for Oracle.

Net crime crackdown: 130 charged.

2GB on a keychain. The new USB 2.0 KanguruMicroDrive might weigh just 21 grams, but it'll set you back about $1300.

Sun Preps Another J2EE 1.4 Beta.

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T-Mobile drops Microsoft's Smartphone UPDATE: Or maybe they haven't.

TI, Nokia gang up on Qualcomm. CDMA R'Us

JDJ and JBoss: Two Influential Bodies in the Industry Today Cement a New Beginning.

Java Compatible and Java Verified Products Reflect Increased Demand for Java Solutions.

String Processing with Perl.

Diego — clevercactus lives!

Russ — Getting up to speed with Mobile Markup.

Daniel — Closures/Blocks in Java.

Cameron — Beautiful Code.

Jeremy— Weblog Burnout Rate?

Carlos — Refactoring To Patterns.

Matthew — Jax windup.

Charles— Closures and Java: a Tutorial.

Danny — Happy Birthday CSS2 and Pragmatic Programmers.

Coldtags suite 1.40, a custom JSP tags suite.

Can Ogg Vorbis change digital audio? When consumers refer to digital music, they usually mean the MP3 format.

Java Theory and Practice: Urban Performance Legend.

WiFi 101. Make sense of 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g.

Brighthand on Samsung's new Pocket PC Phone. SCH-i700 Pocket PC Phone from Samsung.

E3: N-Gage boss talks price points and more.

Fred— SmartPhone-Disaster in The Making.

Matt — Jabber Journal #11.

Top officials press to keep Net tax ban.

On May 16, 1985 — Michael Jordan was named Rookie of the Year in the NBA.