[05:02PM]

Working with KeyPair.

[03:05PM]

PowerBook's new PC rival, designed by Porsche.

jd3Lib alpha 4, a library written in Java that reads and manipulates id3v1 and id3v2 tags, has been released.

[02:01PM]

Dave Winer: “Please don't tweak the little white-on-orange XML icon. I'm seeing variations out there. That's not cool…” Boo Woo! You can steal these buttons.

[01:24PM]

Cocoon 2 Programming: Web Publishing with XML and Java.

JIProlog — Java Internet Prolog.

OpenHack 4: The Hacking Has Begun.

Woman Finds $10 Billion in Account.

JSch 0.0.5, a pure Java implementation of SSH2, has been released.

[05:35AM]

BeanMaker 1.2 has been released.

Making Native Windows API calls from within a Java Application. Oldie, but goodie.

Commonly used Architectural Patterns in Java applications.

An introduction to the Jakarta Commons Lang project.

The Jakarta Commons BeanUtils 1.5 has been released.

[02:41AM]

Sniper probe goes to Tacoma. Uh oh! That's just a few miles away.

I've added links to jump back and forth between articles in the news section.

NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.2b3 fixes a bug introduced in the last beta.

TigerLaunch 1.0 is out!

StuffIt Deluxe 7.0.1 update.

Learning and Using Jakarta Digester.

San Diego Company Owns E-Commerce.

Rubik's Cube. Brings back memories…

Dominic: StrutsCX and J2EE reading references.

CNET's download.com fees.

Track down who gave you the flu.

[04:12AM]

Xandros Linux: ‘It just works’, even with Windows stuff.

[03:09AM]

A comparative review of four J2ME IDEs.

James: “.NET only runs on Windows. Is this a new marketing spin, to say something is portable when it only runs on one single platform…?” — Amen.

Disposable Cell Phones coming to a trash near you.

ID Chip's Controversial Approval.

JOE 0.1 alpha. An Ant optional task to invoke the Java Optimization Engine, which uses the Avalon coding style.

[12:45AM]

The Apache Jakarta Commons Collections team is proud to announce the 2.1 release.

Anthony: “Interesting database comparison.”

Struts meets Swing.

Attack on Net Servers fails.

Die Another Day trailer.

Wanna have a Photographic Memory?

Java - A Slow Language?

This is a primarily page for Jacamerops, a Java-based WebCam watcher.

JDBC Object Persistence: A Better Way.

Book Review: XML in a Nutshell.

Speed Up J2EE Development: Separate Business Logic from Components.

Understand Extended BNF.

The Many Inheritances in JavaScript.

iPod turns one.

Charles: “One of those days”

There's a new RSS Validator in town. Apparently it can validate 0.92, 1.0 and 2.0 feeds.

TheServerSide Now Publishes News via RSS Feed.

NetNewsWire 1.0.2b2 helps reduce bandwidth consumption.

Steven: Work avoidance.

Russ: Java eBooks in PDF and Hierarchical Thinking and Outlines.

Plug your Swing Editor Into Eclipse.

Google sued over site ranking.

Java 2 Standard Edition 1.3.1_06 released.

Java-Virtual-Machine.net: All about Java Virtual Machines!

JAMon is an open source Java monitoring tool.

You don't know Schitt.

The CvsGui project has released new versions of WinCvs and MacCvs.

A new version of JRefactory has been released.

Gert Van Ham released version 0.5 of his JCE taglib.

JReversePro, a Java decompiler, version 1.4.1 released.

MockObjects 0.5 released.

JSch 0.0.3 released.

Books: Hacking Exposed J2EE and J2EE The Complete Reference.

Neil has implemented configurable categories for PersonalBlog, and he's using my icons. Cool!

Charles: An Empirical Comparison of Programming Languages

Mac Net Journal: A Cocoa literature list.

Java Toolkit Based on Liberty Spec.

Weblogs.com weirdness!

I've just submitted my ant.command for Mac OS X to the Inst.ant project.

Darren asks “Who reads this stuff anyway?” and provides some very interesting stats. I had to go check mine which are quite different overall:

Browsers

1. MS Internet Explorer: 71%
       6.x: 48.4%
       5.x: 35.2%
       4.x: 1.1%
2. Netscape: 13.7%
       5.x: 59.3%
       4.x: 15.2%
       7.x: 3.1%
3. Unknown: 12.8%
4. Opera: 1.3%
5. Konqueror: 0.2%
6. OmniWeb: 0.1%
7. WebTV browser: 0.1%

Operating Systems

1. Windows 98: 22.6%
2. Windows 2000: 20.1%
3. Windows XP:18.7%
4. Unknown: 11.6%
5. Windows NT: 7.2%
6. Windows Me: 7%
7. Mac OS: 4.8%
8. Linux: 4.5%
9. Windows 95: 2.6%

Mac Net Journal: Psst….don't look now…but Lycos has blogs.

Joe: NBML - Not Bunk Markup Language. Yeuuurgh! is just about right. Neither easier to manage or read, IMHO. I really fail to see the point. If it ain't broken don't try to fix it.

Greg Klebus' Java To Go. Another Java-related blog I just discovered.

Russ: Java Best Practices and DB Redux. A must bookmark.

Inst.ant: First CVS drop. Goody, Goody.

Julian found Jalopy, a Java source beautifier.

JCom SDK version 1.2.

Campaign: Send AOL CDs back.

I had a terrific chest & shoulders workout late last night. How do I know? I can't move my arms. I've been walking around like a penguin all day long.

MacCentral: Macworld Expo moves to Boston; Apple will not go.

JUnitEE 1.5.1 released.

Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choice Awards.

In response to Mike's reader question, here's a list of the few J2EE tutorials I've bookmarked over the years.

• The J2EE Tutorial (2002)
• Developing Enterprise Applications Using the J2EE Platform (2002)
• Hands-on Java Data Objects (2002)
• Using the CMP Model in the EJB 2.0 Specification for Web Services (2002)
• Introduction to container-managed persistence and relationships (2001-2002)
  Part 1, 2, 3 and 4
• Enterprise JavaBeans fundamentals (2001)
• Introducing the Java Message Service (2001)
• Getting Started on Developing Web Services (2001)
• A Nine-Step Process for Deriving Infrastructure Architecture from a J2EE Technology Application Architecture (2001)
• Scaling J2EE Technology Applications Based on Application Infrastructure Techniques (2001)
  Part 1, 2, 3, and 4
• JavaBeans 101 (2000-2001)
  Part I, II and III
• Enterprise JavaBeans Technology Fundamentals Short Course (2000)
• Writing Enterprise Applications with Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (2000)
• Enterprise JavaBeans Tutorial (1999)
• Introduction to the JavaBeans API (1999)
• JavaBeans Short Course (1997)

There's some pretty old stuff in there, but I often glance at outdated tutorials prior to digging into the latest implementation. I feel it gives me a better understanding as to why things evolved the way they did.

Russ: Best of Breed. I like the idea a lot! We'd need a portal that is more organized than jGuru, less commercial than TSS and as clean as iSavvix.

Aguilera video offends Thailand. No kidding. I've got a title for her new album, Skankville.

Microsoft beta test site hacked. Security? We've heard of it…

CamWorld: “Are you as confused as I am about the different cell phone technologies between Europe, Asia and the America?”

U.S. Embassy to Dmitry Sklyarov: Access denied. Nothing more than bureaucratic BS.

O'Reilly offers Learning Cocoa with Objective-C. I wonder if Learning Cocoa in Java is going to be updated.

Just found out about Google Zeitgeist. Pretty kewl.

Big Blue Busting to Break Out WebSphere V5.

Andersen fined $500,000. A slap on the wrist. If it wasn't so pathetic it would almost be laughable.

Sexy Survey: Who's your favorite action flick chick?

Java 2 SDK, version 1.4.1_01 now available.

JSch is a pure Java implementation of SSH2.

David: Apple posted my “Switch” e-mail.

Mike: The 'real' J2EE tutorial, user driven!

Mike: Australia's 9/11? Very sad, indeed.

I've setup an anonymous CVS pserver in addition of ViewCVS. It didn't take nearly as long as I thought it would. I had to fiddle with the permissions, which was the only tricky part.

JavaPro: Why Is OOP So Hard?

Toshiba debuts Bluetooth hard drive for PDAs.

Dude, where's my Dell?

David: Java Persistence Frameworks, again. Nice chart!

Confessions of a Mac to PC Convert. Microsoft quickly pulled it, but couldn't avoid Google's cache. Ah!

Firm Reports New Internet Explorer Flaw. Here we go again!

Sexist Survey: Who's your favorite action flick chick?