Erik's Pulse: 2004-08-03

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Erik C. Thauvin is director of technology at Imacination Software. He also maintains a blog, as well as a popular linkblog updated daily with the latest Java and technology news.

Jackers

Rafe — Eclipse is harder than it looks.
Steve — Open Source Java Solution Proposed.
Stephan — You Java Programmers are Losers!
Tim — What a load of crap.
Joe — Now Paul Graham's off base, IMO.
Gavin — The Lie Of Simplicity.
Dion — The Java Hacker Nonsense.
Howard — This Great Hacker Does Use Java.
Carlos — The Architecture of Participation vesus Hacking.
Adrian — Why You Shouldn't Employ "Great Hackers".
Paul — Handy Tip for Profiling JSP Tags.
Rafe — James Robertson responds.
Casey — A Half Baked Java Cake.
Sachin — Experiences In Java Performance Engineering.

Tip of the Week:

Turn EJB components into Web Services.

Tutorial of the Week:

Eclipse's RCP: Getting started and Extending the generic workbench.

Notable Software Releases:

Antmod 1.1rc1	Blitz JavaSpaces 0.91	Blitz JavaSpaces 2.1.3 (Server)
Clay 1.0.5	Code Folding Plug-in 1.0.2	Commons HttpClient 2.0.1
Commons-BeanUtils 1.7.0	Eclipse Visual Editor M2	EclipseME 0.4.6
FireStorm/DAO 2.2	Guiffy 6.2	Hammurapi 3.0
HiveMind 1.0-beta-2	HTML Parser 1.4.2	Ivory 1.0 Beta 1
IzPack 3.6.0	J2ME Polish 1.0	JabRef 1.5
Japha 2.0.1	JAR Class Finder 2.0.1	JasperAssistant 1.3.1
JasperAssistant 1.3.1	Java Number Base Converter 1.1	Java SMTP Component 1.0
JaxFront for Eclipse	JaxMeJS 0.3	jConfig 2.7
Jesktop 2.1	JFTP2 3.2	JIB 0.1
JPOX 1.0.1	JProfiler 3.1	Jreepad 1.2
JRobin 1.4.0	Match4J 1.2	mod_gcj 0.5
Mr. Persister 2.0.0 beta	Mule 0.9.2	Pebble 1.5
Rome 0.3	SDE for Eclipse 1.2	Simple 2.5.1
Sitemesh 2.1	SkinLF 1.2.9	Skopje 0.2
Spring 1.1 RC 1	StrutsDoc 0.5	Sysdeo Tomcat Plugin 3.0
WebServices JaxMe 0.3	XMoon 0.5

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