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XML in Java: Data Binding with Castor.

Thinking In Java 3rd Edition Available Online.

JBuilder 8 Enterprise Edition Download Released.

Julian — Migrating From Java to C#.

Kurt — DreamWeaver MX 6.1 Update.

Carlos — Found: A Reference Java Compiler.

Fred — Dave Winer-Portrait of Programmer Losing His Sharp Mind.

Zoe Intertwingle 0.2.9, a unique email client that works through a Web browser.

Easy Struts for Eclipse & JBuilder.

Big Blue Delivers Native Linux Server.

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Say Goodbye to Step-by-Step Debugging. Java 1.4's and Apache's Log4j.

JavaPro: Monitor Your Messages.

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Sun says Java should be included in XP.

Diagnosing Java code: Killer combo -- Mixins, Jam, and unit testing.

iNet Factory 4.0 released.

NumericalChameleon 1.4.0 is live on the web.

Roman — Rain of IDEAs… Drop #686.

Chris — Nice XP overview.

Russ — RSS via NNTP?

Microsoft to Ship Windows .NET Server 2003 RC2 this Week.

Coldtags suite 1.20, a custom JSP tags suite.

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The Tomcat Team has announced the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 4.1.16 Beta.

Mathias — “Why I love EJB's” by Marc Fleury. Why? Because if you didn't JBoss would have no "raison de vivre". Hardly convincing.

xinetd-2.3.7-5.i386 for Red Hat 8. A secure replacement for inetd.

Java Support Environment For C++ Libs, an open source project that aims at moving C++ libraries into the Java culture with the help of Swing, XML, and XSLT.

Class Encrypt, an open source program that can encrypt a developer's class files and package them into an executable jar file.

‘Jurassic Park’ author wins domain.

File sharing lands in court again.

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New Survey: How long will Russ stay at his new job? Thanks to Jim for the last question. Hey, I'm not taking the blame alone!

Karl — The Buffy Dialog Database.

Fred — Forum Nokia developers Get to Use Loaner Nokia devices.

JFtp 0.92, a graphical Java FTP client.

Mozilla 1.2.1 Released. Round 2

PGP Desktop, Personal 8.0 for Mac OS X.

Codewalkers has released the latest PHP Coding Contest.

Devsphere XML Tag Library, open source JSP tag library providing XML output and XML processing features that are complementary to JSTL.

Rogers — Columbia House DVD is making heavy use of Java, according to an incredibly detailed error message.

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Russ — Midnight in the Office of Good and Evil, Java.Blogs at 99 and Bravery, Honesty or Stupidity?

PayPal Founder Wants To Launch Satellites.

Java Tip: Execute self-extracting JARs.

Java Tip: Identify subclasses at runtime.

Best calendar of the year.

Dominic — java.blog bloggers. Nice!

Sam — Java VM for .NET.

OS X Server creating Macintosh converts. Sounds like fiction to me.

Court test for US digital piracy law.

JBoss the Next Apache? Not even close! JBoss has yet to make a dent in the Enterprise Application Server space.

Interview about Oracle's J2EE IDE Tools Strategy.

JPublish 1.4, an open source Web publishing framework which uses a template engine in combination with a content repository.

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O'Reilly releases eleven new pocket-sized references.

Neil — Java Decompilers (continued). DJ Java Decompiler is based on Jad too.

Phillip — Alpha/beta testers wanted for a web app.

Java spat to percolate in court.

Fred — AntAcid. Looks promising…

Charles — Code Conventions (final).

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fastUtil 2.0, a fast and compact type-specific utility classes for Java.

UploadBean 1.2.1 component released.

Clustered Cache: Tangosol releases Coherence 1.2.2.

Bill Gates buys Nextel shares from McCaw.

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Industry's First Web Services Diagnostics System: Mindreef SOAPscope Personal 1.0.

Frank's Java Code Stack: Memory Mapped Files.

CodeWarrior Wireless Studio to Support New MIDP 2.0 Standard.

Insignia Provides Java-enabling Technology For New Dell Axim X5 Handheld.

Openwave Powers New Sharp GX-10.

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How To Get Hired As An Open Source Developer.

Xerces-J 2.2.1 now available. XML-Apache Project.

David — Controversy sells.

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SquirrelMail 1.2.10 released!

Why the metric system is wrong.

Adobe ships PDF server software.

JFormula, a shareware library for evaluating mathematical expression.

JASon, an open source Java Application Server.

Webzap is an framework for the development of web applications or views of multiple tier client server systems using the WingS API.

Sferyx JSyndrome HTMLEditor is a full featured visual HTML Editor Java component built with JDK v1.4.

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Sun launches updated mobile Java standard. MIDP 2.0.

Jeff — Naming conventions, coupling and interfaces…

Chris — Great refactoring story.

Andy — Here's my unsolicited opinion of NetBeans 3.4.

Matt — Phoenix gets faster.

Russ — Coding Conventions Continued…

Darren — Interfaces considered Important.

Happy Birthday to Charles.

TightVNC 1.2.7 released.

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The Apache Jakarta Taglibs team would like to announce the release of the following JSP Custom Tag Libraries. Except for the Benchmark Taglib 1.0 release these releases are minor bug fixes and repackaging of the release archives. See the individual tag library documentation revision history for a list of changes. Application 1.0.1 Benchmark 1.0 Datetime 1.0.1 Page 1.0.1 Random 1.0.1 Regexp 1.0.1 Request 1.0.1 Response 1.0.1 Sessions 1.0.1 XSL 1.0.1 The binary and/or source distributions are available at: http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/

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JToolKit 1.5, a new product bundle containing JTKEvaluator 1.0, JTKSortSuite 4.0 and JTKDateTimeHelper 2.2.

Tortuga Technologies Announces Ozibug 1.3.0.

Java SOS 3.15, a Java servlets office suite.

JasperReports 0.4.4, a Java-based, XML-enabled tool for printing runtime-generated documents.

JSwat Java Debugger 2.11, a JPDA based graphical Java debugger.

Sun to Release Java Dev Kit upgrade for StarOffice

Dominic — Artima.com.

Cedric — I is for Interface and Code conventions.

Russ — Coding Conventions - _I_ want to kill the Impl.

Charles — I is NOT for Interface.

Damien — I for interfaces?.

Fred — OpenJNLP 0.7.1 has been released.

Mozilla 1.2 pulled.

Wikipedia, a collaborative project to produce a free and complete encyclopedia in every language.

Inspector Gadget: Sharp Zaurus SL-5500.

We'll be attending a birthday party for Vicki's niece, Amanda, later in the afternoon. Tomorrow, we're going to her nephew's, Jake.

PostgreSQL 7.3 Released.

A first look at JavaServer Faces.

JAAS Security in Action.

JUnitDoclet 1.0.2, an open source doclet which offers a convenient way to create, organize and maintain JUnit tests.

Roman — IDEA: build 684.

Carlos — JPetstore 2.0 is Here!

Matt — JSP 2.0 and Servlets 2.4 Research.

Sklyarov gets US visa. DMCA trial to kick off.

Linux Kernel 2.4.20 Released.

Zoe 0.2.8, a unique email client that works through a Web browser.

Vapor Trails - a review.

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Happy Turkey Day! I'm off to prepare my bird and bake a pie…

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Singing Horses flash movie. Click on each Horse to make him perform!

New JSR's: Java Compiler API and Class Compression Format.

XML@Whiz 4.0, IBM XML Certification Test Simulator released.

Matt — Oslo - New Project admin tool.

Sjoerd — RSS to RDF Converter.

Werner — using Clover on deployed J2EE apps.

SuperWaba 3.3, a JavaVM for PalmOS devices.

Anger as Microsoft hires EU official.

New worm adds insult to injury.

DNA jewelry: A gift that screams you.

The rise and rise of Websphere.

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Too many Java blogs?

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Joost STX processor, an open source implementation of the Streaming Transformation for XML language.

Zaval File Search 1.3.0, an open source local area network tool designed for fast file search on SMB shares and FTP servers.

Bond Gadgets Not Just Movie Magic.

mozilla.org's Phoenix Project To Be Renamed.

Roman — Java libraries - all-at-one-place!

My name is… Oh, forget it.

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Thanksgiving turkey flash animation.

Taglibtools, a package of utility tools for custom tag library developers.

Salsa, a collection of Swing add-ons.

Amnesty Calls Shenannigans on MS, Sun, Cisco.

EchoStar Plan to Get Hughes Is Revised. Dish Networks is trying to buy DirectTV.

Roman — Guess-what 683 guess-what… New IDEA build!

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Allon finally got around to start his own blog. He's using the jTalk sample weblog I deployed for him late last nite. Good stuff.

Bob — Better Javadocs.

Joe — Blocks in Java and C#.

JMichelle (Java Midori Shell), an open source file manager written in Java and SWT.

crossdb, an open source cross database tools for manipulating all major databases.

Mike — 25 Reasons I Love Using IntelliJ Idea. The name is Glen.

Bush signs bill to improve computer security.

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Sun to give StarOffice Java flavor.

BofA To Provide Images Of Checks, Deposit Slips To Online Customers.

All Source Code Should Be Open, Revisited. Right idea, wrong solutions.

QuickASCII Movie Player. Convert your QuickTime movies into ASCII movies!

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Lomboz, a J2EE plugin for the Eclipse platform.

Book Review: Java Developers Almanac 1.4 Vol. 1. Vicki just gave it to me for my birthday. It's always on my desk, like the previous edition was.

David — Java 2 SDK 1.4.1 DP6 for OS X.

CommonJava Open Component open source Project.

DrJava (stable release), an open source integrated Java development environment that supports interactive evaluation of expressions.

Sun Revives Solaris x86 with Beta.

CERT Warns of Solaris Font Flaw.

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We just released a couple free Web Services: Zip Distance Calculator and Credit Card Validator. Thanks to Russ and Jim for helping with the testing. Also thanks to Matt for keeping me on my toes.

Getting started with the Eclipse Platform.

Java theory and practice: Concurrency made simple. (sort of)

Unit testing with mock objects.

jWebUnit v1.1, an open source Java-based framework for testing web applications.

Data processing spec nears final draft.

Mike — The Programmers' Stone - awesome resource.

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Refactorit 1.2.2, a Java refactoring browser for Netbeans, JBuilder, Jdev, and standalone.

Carlos — The Advertising Slogan Generator. My favorite: “Because So Much Is Riding On Your Crap.”

CVS Tutorial.

OpenOffice.org gives MS Office a run for no money. I like it. I haven't even bothered re-installing MS Office.

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Mike — javablogs.com is ready to beta test. Way cool!

Tutorial: Java Web Start.

Magnus — AspectJ 1.1 beta.

David — Java Best Practices and Java Enterprise Best Practices.

Squirrel SQL Client 1.1final1, an open source graphical Java database client.

JCSC 0.93, an open source Java Coding Standard Checker.

California Firm to Settle Net Porn Scam.

Mozilla 1.2 released!