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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.

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Russ — J2ME for your Gameboy!

Jason — Enhanced properties.

Scott — Visa USA announces Account Truncation Initiative.

Andrew — Configuring Tomcat 4.1.18 with IDEA 3.0.1.

Advanced Text Indexing with Lucene.

Using Hierarchical Data Sets with Aspire and Tomcat.

Matt— Good MIDlet Tutorial, Take It Further.

Color change to $20 bills imminent. Set for March 27.

Russ — The Mega Phone.

Dave — Camino 0.7 Released.

Microsoft To Ship Office Beta Monday.

Erik — Oracle and Sprint Accelerate Java Development.

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Jakarta Tapestry 2.4-alpha-4, a web application framework structured around highly reusable
components.

Tutorial: Building Dynamic Web sites with WebSphere.

Tutorial: MIDlet development with the Wireless Toolkit.

A stepped approach to J2EE testing with SDAO . Use simulated and actual data access objects to effectively and efficiently test your J2EE apps.

J2EE pathfinder: J2EE technologies for the stateful network. Best practices for choosing the right solution.

Using the Eclipse GUI outside the Eclipse Workbench, Part 3: Adding actions, menus, and toolbars.

The Java Specialists' Newsletter: Wait, Cursor, Wait!

Beginning AppleScript Studio. A quick tutorial on getting started in AppleScript Studio, resulting in a working application.

David — BEA: huge adoption curve climbing very fast for Linux.

Russ — Apple PowerBook Bluetooth Rocks!

Diego — Are the new handsets selling well?

Glen — Ant, JUnit and SQL.

Sony Ericsson P800: available in Bulgaria now. But still weeks away from being available in the US?

GenJar, is a specialized Ant task that builds jar files based on class dependencies rather than simply the contents of a directory.

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The guitar hero who can't win a Grammy. But Joe Satriani hasn't lost his touch.

Kasia — Net::Blogger.

Simple 2.2, a comprehensive Java framework for the development of HTTP services.

Review: News aggregators. Hot Off Your News Clicking Service.

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Has Jeff Bezos Patented E-Mail Discussion Groups?

jSMSEngine API 1.0, a open source Java-based API to send and receive SMS messages.

NativeJ, generates Win32 native .EXE launchers for Java applications.

Dave — Konfabrication.

Ted — Effective Enterprise Java (Architecture): Follow the Zen.

JiBX, XML Data Binding for Java.

Jim — Martin Little reviews his P800.

Carlos — Software Connectors a Subset of Communicative Acts.

Matt — WSDL 1.2 Working Draft.

Steven — UML-based code generation? You're nuts.

Simon — Certified J2EE compatible - really???

Are Video Blogs Ready For Prime Time?

Anonymous Coward — 3 New JSR's and some controversy?

Russ — The Google Dance Is Coming!

Wireless Universal Resource File. The WURFL file contains information regarding wireless devices' configurations, capabilities and features.

Seyed — PDA Fade Away.

Tomcat's simple WebXml editor, a simple form-based editor for Tomcat's web.xml files..

SMS text: the new English? “My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we usd 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3 :- kds FTF. ILNY, it's a gr8 plc.”

JUnitEE 1.6.4.

Primitive Collections for Java 1.1, a set of collection classes for primitive data types in Java.

Java Service Wrapper 3.0.0, makes it possible to install a Java Application as a Windows NT Service.

Erik — HOW 2 SPK TXT.

March 6, 1946 — Ho Chi Minh, the President of Vietnam, struck an agreement with France that recognized his country as an autonomous state within the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.

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Matt — Java Server Faces Demos!

Russ — Nokia and Metrowerks Launch Series 60 Dev Toolkit.

Rafe — I'm stumped.

Review of Apple's AirPort Extreme.

Erik — New Sony Ericsson Phones Roundup.

Jay — An overview of web services startups.

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Eric — Finished Red Hat RPM Guide.

Understanding LDAP, Part 2.

Alan — Google: Friend or Foe?

Russ — Nokia and Metrowerks Launch Series 60 Dev Toolkit.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.1b3.

Lance — Keep IDEA from Hanging for significant periods of time while doing GC…

Internet music services finally sing a better tune. AOL's MusicNet.

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Optimizing GCC. How much faster would gcc compile the kernel if gcc itself was optimized?

Is Linux as vulnerable as Windows? Counting viruses is simplistic, but there is evidence that Windows is becoming more resistant, and Linux is becoming more of a target.

Enterprise CTO Switches to Mac OS X. ‘Rethink Before You Reinstall’

JAXB 1.0 and JAXP 1.3. Java API's for XML Binding and XML Processing Updated.

Kurt — The new Macromedia.com Launches.

Dong — Java profiler.

Danno — Java language triva…

Joe — Lucene is working now..

Bob — Don't implement Page-by-Page Iterators using a scrollable ResultSet and jAdvise Article..

Marc — Junit Out of Loop.

Matthew — Mobitopia - day 2.

Ara — Sony Ericsson P800.

Kenneth — Java Regular Expressions.

Danny — Java Jam 4.

Dell Widescreen 15.4 inch Laptop. The Dell Inspiron 8500 with a 15.4-inch wide-aspect screen featuring a resolution of up to 1,920 pixels by 1,200 pixels.

Computerworld: Java News Shorts.

Toshiba's new Pocket PC with a digital camera. The Genio e550c.

O'Reilly releases “Google Hacks”.

Erik — T-Mobile to cut wireless-data prices.

Rogers — Too many specs spoil the broth.

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Toshiba preps laptop fuel cell.

Faith is back on Angel tonight.

Dion — Hibernate & JDO.

Joe — Blog Software Status.

Matthew — Mozilla: Blogging's Killer App.

Jim — Disentanglement or Anticonvergence?

Erik — Oracle's Mobile Center.

A LifeGem is a certified, high quality diamond created from the carbon of your loved one as a memorial to their unique and wonderful life.

Net Hacker Tool du Jour: Google. “When your medical records are indexed in Google, something's wrong.”

DSL provider Covad adds Mac support.

James — SuperSearch - Eclipse Plug-in.

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Fail-Safe Interop for Your Enterprise. Discover strategies for invoking distributed services to achieve interoperability and integration among J2EE and .Net components.

The Long and Winding Road. Sun is holding back the Java 1.4 spec release to comply with WS-I's interop guidelines.

Putting a New Face on Web Interfaces. The JavaServer Faces technology takes the next step in separating presentation from business logic.

Return Prewritten WSDL. Configure Axis Web Services.

Build a Web Services-Based Interface. See how a collaborative solution demonstrates using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets in a Web-based interface for a retail chain.

Mapping Java Objects to a Database with Castor-JDO.

JThumbnailer, an Image Preview program which contains basic preview function, such as File System Browsing, Thumbnail view, actual size view of Image, resize, rotate, flip, HTML generation.

David — Java IDEs: Market Overview..

Matt — Moblogger enabled for this blog.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.1b2.

Ted — Effective Enterprise Java (System): Use independent JREs.

JMyAdmin, a tool written in Java intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web.

BEA provides glimpse of its future direction. Security, application management and process-oriented programming.

PowerMate. The Griffin PowerMate is too weird and interesting a gadget to pass up.

Trust issues. A portable lie detector called the Handy Truster that analyzes subtle, involuntary changes in voice stress that are supposed to correlate with truthfulness.

JoGa , Java Optimizer with Global Analysis.

Wireless Internet startup to bring up to 30,000 “hot spots” to UK this year.

Simon — JavaRanch March newsletter.

Jim — BBC reviews P800.

Stuart — The term moblog has been there for quite a while now.

Patrick — AspectJ book on Slashdot.

Dinner at il Bacio was excellent. Nothing like authentic italian food.

March 5, 1998 — NASA announced that an orbiting craft had found enough water on the moon to support a human colony and rocket fueling station.