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UML2EJB, a UML to EJB code generator.

EzPOP 1.1 released.

Keith — Firefly. Just a little upset. ;-)

Fred — Wrong Predictions.

Morgan — infamy. I think the DBTags are pretty crappy, right now. Too complex for the novice, hardly enticing to the expert.

Red Hat In The Black for Q3. Only took 5 years.

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Matt — Java + XML + Web Services = Profit!!!

Has AOL Lost Its Sex Drive? Now, the old media bedfellow is pushing AOL to stop its pimping ways.

Russ — Ben, Jerry, Chocolate Chip Cookies and Me. Another chapter in Russ'  love/hate relationship with sugar.

2003 Macworld events parties site online.

Outlook to Lotus: Let's talk.

Iona sets sights on Web services. XMLBus, Inferno, etc.

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Interview with Sun VP of Web Services. Mark Bauhaus.

Sklyarov Discusses the ElcomSoft Trial.

Diego — looking back. A year to forget.

Brent — nocards.org.

Apple's Script Editor 2.0.

85 Big Ideas that Changed the World.

Enterprise Best Practices: Excerpt One.

Niel— JSP Doesn't Suck.

Karl — JSP Does NOT Suck!.

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Swang, an XML java object graph persistence engine and application language.

Simon — 36 hour drinking.

Niel — SAP Integration Using Java.

Matt — Red Hat to Drop Sparc, Alpha Support.

Danno — Eclipse does Swing! Danno's having phun. ;-)

Chris — One IDE for the team.

New Microsoft MicroPDA Coming. A new breed of wireless PDA-phone.

Can Silicon Valley stay relevant?

Evan — Eclipse M4.

JDebugTool Foundation Edition, now freeware.

ej-technologies releases exe4j 1.1, a Java exe maker.

Software 7 releases Helen 1.1, a JavaHelp authoring Tool.

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JCTerm, an SSH2 terminal emulator.

JavaShelf, provides information on Java books you can order online.

Fabian — Are You a Prostitute or Are You a Consultant?

Anselm — Lesbian GNU. Gotta love that name!

Apple files SEC form 10-K Annual Report.

Apple Developer Tools December. SMP support…

Pi. Thanks, Russ.

Ben — New Years Revolutions - Things you can do for the good of the net.

Matt — Hibernate Reverse Engineering Tool.

Fred — JAIN Hits prime time. Java Access Intelligence Network.

Scott — Did Your Blog Cost You Your Job?

DirectX 9.0 released.

Travel No-Nos: Monkeys in your pants.

Notable Apple Knowledge Base updates.  All about 10.2.3.

Sybase to acquire AvantGo. For $38 millions.

On December 20 1803, The United States purchased the Louisiana Territories from France for $15 million.

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Struts in Action. Part 5: Validating user input.

PC Mag: Gateway Ad. Titanium PowerBook featured.

‘Rings’ sets December one-day box office record.

Matt — Russell "Bluetooth" Beattie.

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New Java Master Promotes Scalability, Runs on Any OS.

Building Applications with WebSphere Studio Visual Editor and Java Beans - Part 1: Creating Your First Applet.

Developing accessible GUIs with Swing.

Implementing Web services with the WSTK v3.3: Part 2.

Using IBM Web Performance Tools.

Using Mobile Devices with the WSTK.

EJB best practices: The fine points of data validation.

JavaCC, parse trees, and the XQuery grammar , Part 2.

From black boxes to enterprises, Part 3: Hands-on JMX integration.

Tomcat 4.1.18 has just been released, and includes a fix for an object recylcing bug which could be exploited by a denial of service attack.

Russ — J2EE 1.4 Beta Released.

FreeGuide TV Guide. Download TV listings from the Internet, view them offline, create a personalised TV guide and choose favourites.

David — Java 2 SDK 1.4.1 DP8 for OSX available.

Cable, TV Makers Agree on Digital Standard.

Is Apple growing leaner? 180 employees laid off in the fourth quarter.

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‘Taken’ takes Sci Fi to new heights. I didn't watch any of it. 

Golden Globe nominations announced. “Chicago”, The “Rings” and “Gang”.

Java interaction with databases boosted. Kodo JDO 2.4 upgrade.

Jeff — New Eclipse 2.1 Milestone out.

InstallAnywhere 5.0.6. Enterprise, Standard, Mac OS X and Now! editions.

XP Shell Vulnerability Threatens Systems.

O'Reilly offers 802.11 Security reference.

Can the Brash Brothers Bounce Back? Sun's Scott McNealy and Oracle's Larry Ellison.

Oracle plan exposes Java rift. JSR 198.

Amazon Seeks '2-Click' Shopping Cart Patent. Here we go again…

David — The Two Towers.

Dominic — JavaShelf.com.

Greg — What Made My Day.

Russ— Kim Possible Rocks!

Werner — Basic Java …. what everyone should know.

JSX2 0.1.3, a program to export Java object data.

Apple releases Mac OS X 10.2.3.

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Intel Begins Doling Out Wi-Fi Money. STSN and Telesym.

JDynamiTe, Dynamic Template in Java.

Eclipse Developing Standards For Automated Software-Quality Tools.

VB developers take back seat at BEA. Back-pedaling on efforts to attract Visual Basic developers.

Justify your application development framework investment.

mvnForum 1.0.0 beta2 released, an open source JSP/Servlet-based forum.

Servlet Best Practices, Part 1.

Introducing MIDP 2.0.

FTC Moves Forward With National Do-Not-Call List.

GNU-Darwin Dropping Cocoa, PPC Support.

Andres — Newzcrawler. I use it too.

Dominic — WroxDirect.com.

Jim — Diving in where others fear to tread.

CNET on ViewSonic's new Pocket PC.

Last-Minute Gadget Gifts for technophiles.

Jason — :) New mobile phone arrives…..

Charles — Weblog Etiquette: Comments Forms.

Java Aspect Components 0.9.2, a framework for distributed aspect oriented programming.

Crackproof Your Software.

startJ, an entry-level, yet powerful IDE.

LimeWire 2.8.4.

Give Chimera access to certain secure sites. Neat.

Palm reports Q2 financials. Down 9 percent.

Teen gets ‘A’ for hacking school computer.

E-card virus warning for Christmas.

Federal judge halts law banning inmates on Internet.

FTC do-not-call plans could give agency one big busy signal.

2002 Confirmed as 2nd Warmest Year on Record.

IBM Ships New eServer. x440 for $81,000.

$200 magic number for PCs? Slowly catching on.

WorldCom wins State Department deal. $360 million over 10 years.

Microsoft to bump Apple into sync-hole? “Certainly by…2005, possibly by the end of 2003, Linux will pass Mac OS as the No. 2 operating environment,” said IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky.

JSci 0.881, a science API for Java.

On December 19 1998, U.S. President Bill Clinton was impeached on two charges of perjury and obstruction of justice by the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Diego — hype the hype. The 10 biggest hype jobs of 2002.

Robert — JSP and Zope.

Laszlo — java.blogs.bug. I bet Mike's been busy.

Dominic — MobileCoders.com.

Newest Scam: Fake Escrow Accounts.

Jim — Tarpitting the Spamsters.

Microsoft and IBM Publish Six New Web Services Specifications.

Matt — JSch: Java Secure Channel 0.0.9 Released.

Karl — Lack of free web based java apps - a conversation at JavaLobby.

Matt — POI Article. Read and write from Java to MS Excel files.

Intergraph sues PC giants over Pentium. Dell Computer, Gateway and Hewlett-Packard.

Fred — How Not to Interop with SOAP-Dave Winer Style.

Scott — New Magazine: Tekka.

Oxygen XML editor 1.2.4. A Java editor that supports XML, XSD, XSL, and DTD.

fetchmail 5.9.0-21.8.0.i386 for Red Hat 8.

JML 3.5 released. Java Modeling Language.

Zoe Intertwingle 0.3.2. A unique email client that works through a Web browser.

Walk in playboy Hefner's slippers. ‘M’ rating… Who are they kidding?

Illuminated PC Keyboard. Let there be light…

Heavy Metal Dinosaurs Announce Tour. Here I go again…

World's largest TFT LCD monitor. If you don't know what to get me for Xmas, look no further. ;-)

James — JellySWT and I'm impressed with SWT.

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New cell phone Java holds promise. MIDP 2.0.

GNU Diff for Java. The Java translated version of the GNU Diff algorithm.

When Sysadmins Go Bad. Not so clever.

David — Fat, slow and vulnerable.

Sam — Jelly sucks.

Pelle — Apple Rendezvous support for Java.

Connectix unveils Virtual PC 6.0.

‘Terminator 3’ and ‘Bad Boys 2’ trailers online!

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Can .Net And Java Be Friends?

Oracle seeks to align Eclipse with Sun's Java.

Adam  — Pornblography.

AOL patents instant messaging. That is stupid. Fred's right!

Alan — Life with my Sony P800. Russ likes that phone too, we can't get him to shut up about it.

Bob — 100 Entries. Number 354 here.

David — IDEA, JBuilder, and BEA Workshop are toast?

Erik — You smelly Spaniard.

First laptop with integrated 802.11a and 802.11b. Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100.

Glen — Getting into Java Patterns.

Jason — XML Digital Signatures.

Jeremy — Java, day #2: Eclipse.

Kev — PDA days. That darn P800 again. ;-)

Mark — Blogger For Hire.

Rickard— Integrating with StarOffice.

Rick — Injecting Bad Smells into your code.

Russ — How much do YOU remember?

Fred — What I want For My Birthday in February. What are you getting for Xmas?

Glen — Ant Sucks?.

Custom Spielberg iPod up for auction.

Interarchy 6.0.1. Popular FTP client.

Ovidiu — Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

JMP 0.24, a runtime profiler of the JVM, with object and method statistics.

Sun demolishes Dotcom Builder. Thanks, Jim.

XML Parser for Java 4.1.2, XML Parser & Generator for Java.

URLFetch Java 0.9.2b, a Java library for HTTP and HTTPS.

xmlenc 0.19, a light-weight XML output library for Java.

Gadgets for Christmas: presents for all the family.

New keyboards are changing the computer connection.

Why Cisco and Dell Are Parting Ways.

W3C finalizes disability guidelines.

XML Processing Actions, a JSP Tag Library for XML Parsing.

Millstone, a user interface library for development of networked Java applications.

MG4J,a free Java implementation of inverted-index compression techniques.

Streamstore, a compact, embeddable database engine for direct Java object storage.

Make Exceptions Smarter. Develop a smart and simple error-handling scheme.

Administer Your Web Database Remotely. A JavaBean to manipulate data structure using a Web browser.

Sample Chapter: Processing XML with Java.

Is the Enterprise Ready for Wireless Data?

Big designs for small devices. Four J2ME design patterns.

Mobile Computing Tips: Great Palm Utilities for Travelers.

On December 18 1865, Slavery was abolished in the United States with the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution being ratified.

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Programmer Challenge: Create a “Find File” program.

JUnitEE v1.6 released.

Russ — Last Names in Spain.

JaxMe 1.52, a Java/XML binding tool based on SAX2. Sounds kinky ;-)

FAO Schwarz eyes bankruptcy. Welcome To Our World…

Falling arches: McDonald's expects first-ever quarterly net loss as sales sag.

Dominic — MySQL Certification (Core and Professional).

Cedric — EJBGen 2.11.

T3 trailer online at 10 pm Eastern Time.

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Kief — Home for the holidays - not.

Matt — [ANNOUNCE] Tomcat 4.1.17 Released! No rpms, yet.

Russ — AnaAsensio.com.

Metrowerks acquires Linux assets of Embedix. Embedix was formerly called Lineo.

Bush Signs e-Government Bill. The Electronic Government Act of 2002.

ElcomSoft verdict: Not guilty.

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CERT Warns of SSH Vulnerabilities.

Tech salaries to slip in 2003, survey says.

James — new programming language called X#?

GuitarScales, shows you all kind of scales on a guitar arm.

uk.co.vmind.print, is a Java printing architecture based on pages.

Evan — util.concurrent package.

Dominic — NoteToSelf: Enterprise pattern resources.

Jim — New twist on the mobile phone front.

Robert — Swing Tutorial Updated.

Fred — GForge-OpenSource Project Management For Those on a Budget.

jRAS32, a Java class library that allows access to the Microsoft Windows RAS library.

Apple confirms plans to Webcast MWSF keynote.

Cell phone warns of heart attack.

Are Pop-Ups Doomed?

New DVD player accesses your PC.

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XtremeJ Management Console, a JMX management console based on the Eclipse platform.

SimpleProfiler, a simple heap profiler for Java, based on JVMPI.

FCC Approves 802.11b Phased Array.

Jeff — Really cool Eclipse demos…

Bob — XPath Explorer.

Evan — Bored.

Dominic— Mobile P2P messaging, Part 1.

Patrick — TogetherSoft recently released Together WebSphere…

Powered by the sun. A solar powered battery charger.

Jason — MySQL Security Alert.

Mark — Hype over Office 11 XML.

Jeremy — Java, day #1.

Andre — JDC VS. MSDN?.

SourceJammer, a SOAP-enabled source code control and versioning system.

net.sourceforge.eclipse.introspection, a plugin for the Eclipse platform that allows various means of introspection.

Microsoft unveils XP tools, toys. Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition.

Memory matters. Discover how much memory an object consumes.

Publish and find UDDI tModels with JAXR and WSDL.

On December 17 1997, U.S. President Clinton signed the No Electronic Theft Act. The act removed protection from individuals who claimed that they took no direct financial gains from stealing copyrighted works and downloading them from the Internet.

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Java Code Stack: Enabling Full Screen.

Ephox Upgrades Enterprise Web Content Authoring with EditLive! for Java 2.0.

JBlend Ships to Early Access Customers for Deployment in Mobile Phones.

New SSH Vulnerabilities Discovered.

RIAA targets small stores' CD copying.

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Review: Macromedia JRun 4.

Julian — Nile .NET vs. J2EE Benchmark.

Rick — Conversation with Martin Fowler.

Metrowerks unlikely to make Palm app for Mac.

AOL wins $7 million award in antispam case.

E-mail viruses double in 2002.

Microsoft beefs up .Net security.

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IBM extends WebSphere beyond J2EE.

Herbivore Distributed Anti-Spam Network Launched.

JavaOCR 1.1 is Released.

Egothor 1.1.5, a high-performance, full-featured text search engine written entirely in Java.

Sun to Ship Weblogic 7 with next Solaris 9 Update.

Dominic — J2ME design patterns.

A Pocket PC Phone from Hitachi?

Rickard — I'm bored.

Danny— Ideagraph - version 0.

Fred — Modeling Biz docs in XML.

JSource, a Light Java IDE.

IRC Java Bot. New beta release.

MasterCard Tests Contactless Card Program. To use PayPass consumers tap or wave their payment cards.

Sybase readies high-end database. Sybase and Hewlett-Packard join forces.

Philips hears sweet music for PCs. Philips is fine-tuning audio playback for PCs.

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Jakarta Commons Validator 1.0.1. This release contains only bug fixes.

Jakarta Jetspeed Portal Server 1.4 Beta 3. This release contains only bug fixes.

SocketTalk, a framework for peer to peer communication through sockets.

Emmanuel — Configurer JBuilder 8 pour Struts 1.1. Configuring JBuilder for Struts.

Chris — I started reading “Java Web Services” from O'Reilly.

Jim — Siemens/BT 2010 DECT phones…

Kev — Maverick.

oneClickJava, an easy way to set up Java Development Kit under Windows.

RealOne Player for Mac OS X arrives.

Internet to get new domain names. New TLDs.

Gateway: Free computer with purchase.

Terra Lycos relaunches HotBot.

Sun, BEA set WebLogic distribution agreement.

Eclipse Gaining Momentum. 13 new member companies.

Metrowerks Unveils Palm OS 5 Toolset.

Carlos — Erich Gamma and Kent Beck's Book on Eclipse.

On December 16 1998, The U.S. and Britain fired hundreds of missiles on Iraq in response to Saddam Hussein's refusal to comply with U.N. weapons inspectors

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The Jakarta Apache Project has released CLI, a simple API for working with command line arguments. Based on werken.opt by Bob Mcwhirter among others. 

Andy — Americana.

Greg — Java Stuff Packaged for Linux.

RIAA's Statistics Don't Add Up to Piracy. That's what I've been saying all along, now there're numbers to prove it.

Java Aspect Components 0.9.1, a framework for distributed aspect oriented programming.

Notes on a shopping trip to CompUSA.

FBI To Use Ad Banners to Find Criminals.

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We went to see Maid In Manhattan yesterday afternoon. We also had a late dinner at Ruth's Chris Steak House in Bellevue Square.

Like most Steak Houses, prices were high. The “faux-classy” ambiance did not really do it for us.

We had a Shrimp Cocktail with Creole Remoulade Sauce for appetizers. Ten bucks for 4 prawns with a spicy tartar sauce.

My New York Strip and Vicki's Petite Filet were cooked to perfection.

The side of Potatoes Au Gratin sounded better than it actually was.

We finished with a Caramelized Banana Cream Pie which was nothing to get excited about.

We might go back, we'll just skip the appetizers and dessert.

Carlos — MessagingPatterns.com.

Matt — Brainf**k Java Compiler.

Fred — RIAA Companies agree to AntiTrust Settlement. I just filed mine too.

Charles — Quick Movie Reviews.

Eclipse Property File GUI Editor Plugin, provides a “.properties” files GUI editor.

Java Developer's Journal: J2EE, Democracy, and Sausage.

Velare Announces Java Based Framework For Next Generation Web Services.

Spammer Gets Spam Mailed. A little taste of his own medicine.

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Developing for the Motorola T720.

Jan — Mozilla Museum.

Ara — IDEA's plugin manager. I use it all the time to get new/updated plugins.

Russ — Digging WiFi. Anal probe, part deux.

Fred — Why J2ME Developers Should Never Use BREW.

Mitch — Wired Correspondence.

JSPTemplates 1.0, a Java JSP Template engine that is not limited to HTTP.

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Fred — Improving Java Application Garabage Collection Performance.

JFtp 0.96, a graphical Java FTP client.

Matt — Jabber Journal #5.

JFreeReport, a Java class library for generating PDF reports.

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X2. Trailer.

Shangai Knights. Trailer.

Bulletproof Monk. Trailer.

Dark Blue. Trailer.

Equilibrium. Trailer.

RootCause Tracing Tool Gets Tight With J2EE.

Mike — Remotely interacting with Java on OS X.

ImageApp, Java Advanced Imaging GUI.

Bush doll speaks, and misspeaks.

Benchmark Tag Library.

On December 14 1503, Physician, astrologer and clairvoyant, Nostradamus, was born at St. Remy, Provence, France.