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Russ — OrionServer Database Connection Pooling.

Bernard — Phone that knows if you are busy.

Diego — some cool features of JSE 1.4.

Marriott's unacceptable WiFi pricing. $14.20 per hour.

Matt — Blogging Software Idea.

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Sharing code with the Eclipse Platform.

Diagnosing Java code: Java generics without the pain, Part 2.

Cultured Perl: One-liners 102.

Qualcomm licenses Sun's Java. Qualcomm says it has licensed download software from Sun Microsystems, a deal that puts rival technologies into the same cell phone.

Lucent Technologies Unveils New Software Development Kit to Help Application Developers Create Next-Generation Services. MiLife ISG SDK.

Anthony — CPJ (or What your Mama never told you about threads).

Magnus — Codeguide 6.0 released.

Keith — Mozilla 1.3.

Carlos — Oracle's JIT Compiler and Bea's JRockit JIT Compiler and IBM's JDK 1.3.1 The Numerical Speed Leader.

Scott — Welcome to the RSS Search Engine Formerly Known as Roogle — I Give you Feedster!

Java Pretty Print 1.0.0076, a Windows-based Java editor.

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Russ — Eclipse Tip of the Day: Linked Files and Folders.

Martin — Siemens Does Fashion Phones … Er, Personal Communications Devices.

David — blojsom 1.5 released.

Kevin — Unit Testing and Coverage Reports.

Scott — Eclipse refactoring: change to related type & searching.

Diego — duz txt msgN mAk U :-) o :-( ?.

Carlos — An Alternative Way Of Packaging Software: Hardware Included!

Japanese videophone. FOMA P2102V video cellphone.

Eye of the Tiger. “Focus Trainer” from SportsLink.

Motorola Knocks Down Cost and Time Barriers for Software Developers. Free CodeWarrior, Low cost certification, etc.

Matt — Good Humor from the struts-user mailing list.

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JXTA Instant Messenger 0.1b, a server-free instant messenger for JXTA/Java.

JamVM, a small Java Virtual Machine conforming to the JVM specification 2nd edition. 

ADC members can get SoftwareToGo at CompUSA.

Ringtones, yes. Songs, no. None of the new music services for cellphones from Sony, MTV and AOL offer downloads of actual songs.

The new Archos AC340 audio/video player.

Big Screens for Less, Though Not Little. Big plasma TV screens are getting cheaper, but there is a catch: they will not provide true HDTV.

Erik — Samsung i700 Pocket PC Phone.

Jython Books: Jython for Java Programmers and Jython Essentials.

JEX, a redefinition of Java using an XML syntax.

Russ — Too Much of a Good Thing #2.

Frank — Samsung announces PalmOS 5.2 Smartphone.

Russ — Pics from CeBIT! and Finally! Motorola's Symbian Phone… And it's 3G!

Alan — Java Developer's Journal.

Alan — java.io.File.

JaxMeJS 1.2, a JavaSource generation framework (a spinoff of the JaxMe Java/XML binding tool)

JSwat Java Debugger 2.14, JPDA based graphical Java debugger.

Markus— Re: Does an architect code?

On March 13, 1987 — Bryan Adams’ “Heat of the Night” became the first commercially released cassette single in the U.S.

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Detecting Duplicate Code with PMD's CPD. The Copy/Paste Detector.

Making Java Objects Comparable. Sometimes how objects relate to each other is as important as the existence of the objects.

Java Swing: Menus and Toolbars, Part 6.

Erik — Rugged Handheld Computers With GPRS.

Anthony — JPublish 2.0b2 Released and Commons VFS is Cool.

Bob — ‘Reputable’ Java Spammers (TSS/JDJ).

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.1fc1.

Matt — Bezos Survives Crash.

Intel does the Centrino shuffle. Pentium-M & WiFi.

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David — blojsom, blog software, and database-backed web applications.

Dong — use JAAS in JBoss.

Matt — RE: GC settings to improve Eclipse performance.

Chris — JXPath and TMTOWDTI.

Magnus — XSLT bugs the hell out of me.

Jeremy — WTF is Apple Smoking?

Matthew — JLCP 0.5.0 Release Soon.

Apple takes No. 5 in retail desktop market. 3.8% share of the desktop sales.

Javadoc-search, a CGI script for indexing and searching html files produced by javadoc tool.

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Frank — RSS reader for PocketPC.

Jim — Safe networking: Is promiscuity dangerous? and Samsung launch World's first PMG phone.

Fred — OTA Differences.

Markus — Glider for Eclipse is very cool.

Miami Vice star under investigation for money laundering. Don Johnson denies cash stash.

JMP3Renamer, renames downloaded MP3 files with the help of CDDB, id3 tags are supported.

Erik — University Wireless Developer Contest Winners and Orange SPV cloth keyboard now shipping.

Carlos — Faster XML Parsing.

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JNLP Wrapper, a JNLP-compliant pure Java application which makes using JNLP easier.

Java's role in integrated and distributed ERP applications. Enterprise Resource Planning.

JMX keeps your Java apps connected. Java Management Extensions.

Why is everyone calling themselves an architect? Java: The Architect's Playground.

Joe — WebWork: Who best to document?

Jos — Improving Eclipse performance by using vm arguments.

Jeremy — Moritz Leaves Yahoo Board.

Python ANT project.

The three technologies that could change handhelds. Fuel cells, near-eye displays, and virtual keyboards.

Offspring. Amazing array of concept designs from Frog Design and Motorola for a new line of wearable devices that connect to each other via Bluetooth.

Sony Ericsson's new Bluetooth MP3 player. The new HBM-30 music player from Sony Ericsson double as a Bluetooth headset.

Did .NET Really Beat J2EE Flat? Can It? Here's a practical look at the advantages that J2EE and .NET offer.

Review: Sun ONE Studio Programming.

Different WSDL Styles in Axis. Use WSDL to generate Web services.

I've been wrestling against Java 1.4.1 and Swing under OS X. So far OS X is winning.

On March 12, 1789 — The U.S. Post Office was established.

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Interview With Web Optimization Expert Andy King.

Jim — Cultural divides.

Emmanuel — Google weblog.

Matt — Struts from Scratch.

Werner — Deploying from IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer to JBoss.

Eric — Finished Red Hat RPM Guide.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.1b5.

Danmy — Dbunit.

Norman — JAAS and JBoss - Go forth and authenticate.

Thomas — Webwork if/else syntax.

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Jim — RSCPA - animal lovers and spammers…

Diego — growth in mobile phone sales.

Russ — New Nokias.

Matt — [ANNOUNCE] Struttin' With Struts beta.

Joey — Ant Developer's Handbook at JavaRanch.

Scott — Liberty Alliance: Introduction to the Liberty Alliance Identity Architecture.

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Thomas — Performance in java loops.

jNotes 1.0 beta 2, a Java desktop application for personal information management.

Kurt — ArrayList vs Vector.

Erik — Music for mobiles, the O2 way.

iText 0.97, a JAVA-PDF library.

Feds Move to Secure Net. The Cyber Warning Information Network.

NetBeans 3.5 close to release with much better performance.

Kief — Windows Performance Book.

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Jason — Clover 1.1 released.

Kumar — General: Redirecting Std err and J2SE: 1.4.1 GC Analyzer.

Bill — Sarissa XML Meta API for JavaScript.

Javadoc Search 1.0.0, a search tool for JavaDoc.

jRSVP 1.1.4-2, a tool for Rapid Serial Visual Presentation, a technique for extremely fast reading, written in Java.

Flow4J 0.4, a java framework, that enables the user to model process flow with a gui interface.

Toshiba's New Pocket PC e335. Still Slim But More Powerful.

JAPISoft's XMLValidator 1.0.

nntp//rss 0.2, an application that will enable you to use your existing NNTP newsreader to read your favorite syndicated information channels.

JReplaceThem is a utility that allows web developers and programmers to search and replace text from multiple files.

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New APIs in Java 1.4 make logging a cinch. The java.util.logging package.

Manage memory effectively with Java reference objects.

Using JMX to Manage your Web Applications. The Java Management Extensions standard.

Barcode-Hacking Mobshopper. Rob Cockerham decided that the best way to maintain his privacy was to clone his Safeway shopping card.

Bernard — POPFile.

Bob — Printing PDF files from Java.

Kasia — AT&T “soon to be Comcast” saga continues.

Costin — More JAAS fun.

Apocalypse 6. Larry Wall has posted Apocalypse 6, a look at how Perl 6 will handle subroutines.

Widescreen 17" LCD monitor. Melco's W17VS-ST has a built-in TV tuner, a high contrast ratio of 600:1.

The Martian NetDrive. 40GB WiFi file server.

Jakarta Commons JXPath 1.1, an interpreter of the XPath expression language, released.

Software Pioneer Quits Board of Groove. Mitch Kapor resigned after learning the company's software was being used by the Pentagon for surveillance.

On March 11, 2000 — KISS began their “Farewell Tour.”

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Kurt — Eclipse 2.1 RC2.

Emmanuel — Where is located the web-app_2_3.dtd.

Andreas — Ready to Switch.

Apple updates Java to v1.4.1. It only took 397 days for Java 1.4 to come to the Mac.

New Online Smut Prohibition Bill Introduced. In the wake of last week's decision by a Pennsylvania appeals court…

JFtp 1.11, a graphical FTP client.

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Bernard — Java Wiki Engines.

Graeme — Eclipse Performance.

Instant Messenger Spellchecker 1.31.

XNap 2.4, a Java filesharing client.

Vaio teaser campaign: it's a new wireless laptop. Vaio Z1, WiFi, Bluetooth, 1.6GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, 60GB hard drive and 14” screen.

Fred Durst's ‘agreeance’ OK. Wordsmiths everywhere agreed: Durst is dumb. The Weekly Standard dubbed the performer “Fred Dunce.”

Joe — Webwork Documentation.

Costin — Building jk2 native.

Swapping Clock Cycles for Free Music? Free music for your spare CPU cycles.

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Roogle needs a new logo!

Erik — The musical M55 from Siemens.

Boingo Wireless. A white paper about the dynamics and business aspects of the WiFi business.

419 scammers take US con artist for $750,000. Thick doesn't even begin to describe this one

Broadcom ships 3 million 802.11g chipsets. “Industry transition from b to g is happening very rapidly.”

Dong — simple JNDI.

Sony talks about cooperation with Apple, Jobs. “We started working with them, but it is a nightmare.”

Sun Fires Latest Round in Java War. Overturning Java order will damage Sun's business, lawyers say.

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Macromedia DevNet Subscriptions now available.

jCards 3.5, a free Java application designed to store and manage data in any format that the user defines. The database encryption didn't work for me, too bad.

Greg — IBM developerWorks Features RSS Feed.

Erik — Sliding Siemens SL55 launched.

Thomas — pragmatic pragschmatig.

Xephyrus Data Structures Tag Library, create and manipulate the contents of common Java data structures such as maps and lists from within JSPs using tags.

Danny — Technical Problems with OPML.

Thomas — Unpacked ear/war/jar/sar.

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Java Serialization to XML 2 0.5.0, an automated object-XML mapping for distribution, persistence, and processing.

Resin for Eclipse 0.8.1.

Sun aims StarOffice PC bundles at Joe User. Beta imminent.

Erik — Sony Ericsson shows T606, T608 models.

Darren — Util IS a code smell.

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Matt — Servlet 2.4 Specification.

Erik — New Linux Smartphone Offers Tons of Features and Toshiba Camera Phone with 16MB Memory Card Slots.

Mark — Bloggies announced, awarded at SXSW.

Michael — OSCon2003 presentation details.

Kenneth — New Worm Targets Windows: WORM_DELODER.A.

Ted — Updated: Understand Middleware.

Costin — JAAS.

Eclipse Metrics plugin 1.0.8, provides metrics measurement plugin for the Eclipse platform.

Java Class Information Extractor 0.9, an information extractor for Java classes.

Blogging goes mainstream. Success of Web journals heralds an even bigger future.

First Sony Ericsson's to hit these shores. Unlocked Sony Ericsson P800 cellphones have started to turn up in the US.

Telly. New “home entertainment server” from Interact-TV called Telly.

Sharp notebooks get light, bright. Actius RD10 and Actius MM10.

Iona orchestrates wireless computing. Iona seeks to profit off Intel's mobile computing expansion plans with software that delivers information to laptop-toting workers.

Microsoft Unveils Office 2003 Beta 2. Prerelease suite gives first look at note-taking, XML apps.

On March 10, 1785 — Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France. He succeeded Benjamin Franklin.

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Russ — Mobile Business Plan: 'Dot Mob'.

Fred — A JUnit extension for J2ME.

Diego — the influence of regulation.

François — Activer/Désactiver des feuilles de style sous IE… CSS Stylesheet Browser for Internet Explorer.

Matt — Roogle Slashdotted.

jdbc, the Java Database Basic Client.

Online car sales sites are revving up. After more starts and stops than a car with a bad carburetor, the Internet auto business is finally starting to hum.

Getting to the root of OSS debate. The Great Software Debate — Open, Free Or Proprietary?

Gas Prices Rise in Last Two Weeks. Prices climbed to 12-year highs.

SLOCCount 2.22, a set of tools for counting physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) in a large number of languages of a potentially large set of programs.

Lights Out. The king's daughter has entered the building.

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Tomorrow's 5G Cell Phone. “Next-generation cell phones might be cognitive radios, or software radios learning from interaction with their users and acting in their best interest.”

Scott — Desperately Seeking … Algorithms !

Rafe — Trade secrets.

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C# vs. Java: Debate the difference. Dan Seewer, Norris Shelton, and Kevin Cobb weigh in on the C# vs. Java debate.

Erik — Love at first sight: Nokia 7250.

Andrew— Best toolkit for web services?

Net pirates outsmart record labels. The music industry needs to radically change the way it offers music online if it is to defeat net pirates, say experts.

The Bastard Interviewer from Hell.

Martin — Javaserver Faces, JSTL and syntax expansion and highlighting.

JTwiste, a development and runtime environment for J2EE-compliant rich Java/Swing client applications.

On March 9, 1454 — Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy. Matthias Ringmann, a German mapmaker, named the American continent in his honor.

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Jakarta POI 1.10 Development Release. This release includes some new functionality, as well as fixes for bugs that were reported against earlier versions.

Matt — Resin plugin for Eclipse. Maybe you should try it with a non-beta version of Resin?

Leslie — Happy Trails to Me - I've Been Fired and Resume Available.

Magnus — Core J2EE patterns.

Jason — SuSE 8.1 upgrade.

Matthew — Vodafone Boss gives Interview.

Ted — Effective Enterprise Java (Architecture): Avoid round trips and Effective Enterprise Java (System): Use the right JVM.

Costin — /dev/urandom in java.

Edmundas — Aurora Develop with pleasure! Do you …

MP3 ringtones. Tel.Me introduced the first cellphone to play an MP3 as its ringtone.

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Scott — Roogle Update.

The U.S. as a second-class Linux citizen. “When will I be able to buy a laptop preloaded with Linux from you?”

Kumar — J2SE 1.4.1 boosts garbage collection.

Roll Your Own $450 Linux Box. The comments are the most interesting.

Millstone 3.0.3, a library for creating server side user interfaces for networked Java applications.

On March 8, 1993 — “Beavis and Butthead” premiered on MTV as a series.

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Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.1b4.

Short thighs linked to diabetes. People with slightly shorter than usual thighs have an increased risk of diabetes.

Peter  — I had a problem today that I believe I finally solved….here's the problem…

Russ — CeBIT is Coming.

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Quartz 1.0.6, an enterprise-class job scheduler for integration with stand-alone java applications and full-blown J2EE applications.

March is Java Web Services Education Month at java.sun.com.

Diego — C# vs. Java: A debate.

Ken — First IDEA Aurora build! (build #802).

Matt — Struts-JSF Demo.

Jim — Happy birthday to me. Happy Bday! The eCard is on the way.

Bob — specwatch: WSDL 1.2 (WS !=SOAP) and specwatch: BPEL4WS - RAND?

Brent — Open Source XML-RPC for Cocoa.

Ara — Happy Birthday to me :-)

Costin — mail aggregator code. (Python)

The original old school handset.

Powerline products complement Wi-Fi. The powerline HomePlug products use electrical wiring in a house to connect devices without hubs…

Jason — Can Java survive if Sun doesn't?

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Karl — Metal musicians jailed for Islam.

PDA Profile for the J2ME Platform. PalmSource 's proposed final draft of JSR-75.

Proposed final draft specification for the Java Servlet API 2.4.

Security holes found in Google's Blogger. Attackers could replace weblogs with own musings.

Simon — Professional JSP 2.0 - it's a wrap!

James — mondrian rocks!

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J2EE 1.4 on Mac OS X 10.2.4. Thrilled to bits.

Bill — Raison d'etre?

Bob — Raible on Commons StringUtil.

Janne — Russell wants to be #1.

AOL Pushes Membership with Communicator Preview. After over two years of development, AOL has made available a preview release of its new e-mail client.

Sun may change course on Linux. Sun Microsystems is considering striking up partnerships with mainstream Linux sellers such as Red Hat and SuSE.

Erik — MiTAC unveils Smartphone 2002-based Mio 8380.

Internet speed record smashed.  6.7 gigabytes of data.

Court strikes down online porn law. Constitutionally infirm.

James — Super Search 1.0.2 - Eclipse Plugin.

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Java Geography for the Smart Mob, Part 1: OpenMap.

Matt — Struts-JavaServer Faces Integration Library — Early Access Version Now Available.

Dominic — Office Depot: ASP to JSP (Struts) upgrade.

Keith — Java sucks.

Dave — Jabber.

Norman — The solution to the tech job slump: fire people.

Linux and Java: Signpost for the Future. If you look toward the not-too-distant future, you'll see that the Linux/Java programming duo will be pushed by an even bigger wave in the IT world: Web services.

EBay to Shift Half.com Sales to Its Main Site.

Caldera sues IBM for giving Unix secrets to Linux community. This one will run and run.

VeriSign gets into Smartphone, Pocket PC signing. ACS for Smartphone.

The Java Renaissance. The Java Renaissance.

Jason— Java Memory Profiling.

Haiko — News Roundup.

Mobitopia is doing very well at Daypop. We've had a couple articles in the top 40 already.

March 7, 1933 — The board game Monopoly was invented.