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JDJ: Using Message Digest Stream.

Java Specialists' Newsletter: Verrrrrry looooong Strings and other things.

Mac OS X 10.2.2 Update.

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Dominic — The CVS book and Free Online Tech Books.

Neil — Free Anonymous Web Surfing.

Matt — Jabber Journal #1.

Mike — IntelliJ IDEA: the most intelligent Java IDE around.

Russ — Developing for Symbian and Nokia's Series 60.

Charles — Copy-Protected CDs.

Cedric — To fix or not to fix?

David — Jetstyle.

Straw 0.13.1, a GNOME 2.0 desktop RSS aggregator.

JDebugTool 2.3, a graphical Java debugger.

jTDS 0.5, an open source JDBC driver for MS SQL Server.

JRRE v.50, an open source a Java runtime environment implementation based on Sun's Java 2 Virtual Machine specification.

fastUtil, an open source fast & compact specialized hash-based utility classes for Java.

JNIWrapper, a commercial Java Native Interface wrapper.

Password Manager, a freeware password generator and manager.

jMailComposer, a shareware Servlet/JSP email sender component.

On November 11, 1918 World War I came to an end when the Allies and Germany signed an armistice. This day became recognized as Veterans Day in the United States.

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JDK 1.4.1 Developer Preview 5 for Mac OS X.

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FormProc 1.1, an open source Java library designed to make handling and validating forms easy.

JNIWrapper 1.1, a bridge between Java and native code.

ByteML 0.1, an open source Bytecode Markup Language.

Gates To Lay Out Future of C++, C#.

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I pretty much concur with Jeff's opinion on the Tablet PCs, and I spent most of yesterday actually playing with them.

What we're talking about is PIII-M at 800Mhz performance, which is apparently the best low voltage processor Intel currently produces. HP is actually using a Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 which roughly yields similar performances.

All of the Tablet PCs I've tried were quite slow, noticeably so.

The OS is a superset of Windows XP Professional, theoretically able to run all of your current applications. But most apps will not support direct pen input, at least not for while.

Contrary to what you may think, a special stylus is required. No touch-screens, like Palms or Pocket PCs. The digital pen (as they call it) is electromagnetic and does not need to be in contact with the screen to control the pointer, which is extremely awkward when actually writing on the tablet. The minute you lift your hand, the cursor goes flying. I've seen it happen to everybody, even the experts on stage.

I can see how being able to use digital ink improves productivity over paper, but whatever gain is made is lost the minute you try to navigate around the OS with a pen. Simple tasks such as launching an application or saving a document become laborious.

My grade: D+

Book Excerpts: Getting Started with JXTA.

Guidelines for using the Java 2 reference classes.

The ByteBuffer class in Java.

Processing stack trace data in Java.

Processing Speech with Java.

J2EE 1.4 SDK beta released.

Dark Side Switch Campaign.

James — Axis Plugin for Eclipse.

Matt — “RSS Validator doesn't accept relative links?!” I totally agree, that's exactly why I proposed the addition of a base tag in RSS.

Fred — SavaJe Guide to Wireless Developer Programs.

Jacksum 1.1.1, a checksum utility entirely written in Java.

CGI.pm 2.88, an essential Perl CGI library.

Dominic — sunBow (Cocoon plugin for Eclipse)

SOAP 1.2 Passage Snagged By IP Issues.

Recent report on J2EE vs .NET Relies on “Highly Flawed Methodology” says BEA.

Benchmark Bust-Up: The Middleware Company Responds.

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I'm on my way to a Microsoft sponsored event titled: “Introducing the Tablet PC! Come Experience the Evolution of the Notebook PC.” Should be fun.

A New File Upload Library Release. There's a new update to the com.oreilly.servlet library available.

Matt —Our Little Girl has Arrived! Congratulations Mom & Dad!

Sharp to unveil latest Linux PDAs.

Smokescreen 3.11, a commercial Java Class Obfuscator.

Julian — .NEXT or .NEVER? The journey as a java professional evaluating .NET.

Neil — Web Services Poll

Russ — Sendo Drops M$ Licenses Symbian. “How can you get SOOOO close to launch a piece of HARDWARE and then decide to scrap it entirely?”

StrutsTestCase, an extension of the JUnit TestCase class that allows testing of individual Action objects with or without a running servlet engine.

Book: Processing XML with Java.

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DrJava, an open source IDE which supports interactive evaluation of expressions.

Copy protection on CDs is ‘worthless’. “if discs cost only a few dollars each, buying them might be preferable to spending the time and effort to make copies…” Hell, yeah!

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The Jakarta Commons CLI team is proud to announce the version 1.0 release of their simple API for working with command line arguments and options.

javai18n — IntelliJ EAP #673 is out.

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Jeff — New version of JSR 14 Generics for Java…

Dominic — Web app security and hacking books.

Sean — “I installed the new version of SharpDevelop this morning. It's an open source IDE for C# and VB.NET.”

Greg — “Thinlet Beta5 is Out.”

Microsoft Office X 10.1.2 posted.

USB Key-Sized MP3 Player With LCD Display.

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My friend Frank, who lives in Palmer, sent me some pictures of the damages from last weekend's earthquake in Alaska.

NewzCrawler v1.3.1 has been released.

Top Ten New Things You Can Do with NIO.

Using Castor JDO for SQL Mapping.

Posting Blogs To iDisk.

JSP navigation tag, a freeware menu tag.

Gel Java IDE, a freeware Java and JSP IDE that runs natively under Windows.

AbleFtp, a shareware automated ftp client.

JOpenChart 0.94, an open source Java Toolkit and library for embedding charts into applications.

SafeJDBC 1.1, an open source Java library that simplifies the use of JDBC.

MS Releases .NET Source, Sort Of.

Diagnosing Java code: Decoupling package dependencies.

Java execs eye this week's J2EE 1.4 beta release.

Dominic — “Books, books, books…”

Russ — “Why are you reading this blog?” To sum up: Russ is an insane Republican who only raves about .NET.

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Web Services Performance Kit compares BEA, IBM, SunONE.

Dominic — OReilly blog on the .NET vs J2EE PetStore fiasco.

javai18n — Java Enterprise Best Practices.

Carlos — “I Thought Java Was Fast, But Not This Fast!”

Zaval JRC Editor 1.3.1, a visual Java Recource Editor.

AOL loses Net privacy ruling.

Dell's First PDA to Debut Nov. 18.

JStateMachine 1.0, an open souce Java State Machine which produces MVC-like View and Controller classes.

UML2EJB, an open source J2EE code generator.

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Blog the Vote! Indecision 2002. As usual, voting experts predict 40% or less of registered voters will cast ballots today. Very sad.

Jeff — Ant books..

Java Parser/Parser Generator 1.03, a Java-based parser and parser generator package/utility.

WebMacro 1.1b1, an open-source Servlet framework.

Using HashSet, LinkedHashSet, and TreeSet.

Chimera Web browser updated to version 0.6.

EditWorksPro 2.0, a commercial browser-based WYSIWYG editor.

Java Tips: Prepare cross-server database access methods with JDBC and Overpower the PreparedStatement.

Java 101: Tools of the trade, Part 1. Xinox Software's JCreator.

FTC: Where Spam Goes Off to Die.

The Register: “A drive-by shooting at a pet store last week was planned by Microsoft…”