Erik's Pulse: 2004-03-30
by Erik C. Thauvin |
 |
Erik has his finger on the pulse of the Java community. This column is his take on what is hot, and what the community is buzzing about. |
| JSR Groovy, Eclipse M8, etc. A slow news week highlighted by the release of Eclipse M8 and the JSR approval of Groovy. I would have expected more comments on McNealy's flat out dismissal of an Open Sourced Java. I guess it was no surprise to most. |
- John: Open Source vs. What?
- Corey: Garbage Collection – a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words.
- Vinny: Servlet Filters as Poor Man's AOP.
- Diego: Yet Another Way in which Sun Should Get its Act Together.
- Eugene: Bytecode Tales – String Concatenation and Disclaimer.
- Adrian: Eclipse M7 to M8 in 7 Easy Steps.
- Laurent: Disapointed by Eclipse M8.
- Groovy JSR Approved: James and Sylvain.
- Tutorial of the Week: A Great Thick Client.
- Notable Software Releases: JavaServer Faces Console 1.1, Joott 0.2, IBM's Toolkit for MPEG-4 1.2, JMP 0.41, JSyntaxColor 1.2.5, Java Date Picker 2.3, RSSLib4J 0.2b, JPublish 3.0b1, Jiapi 0.2, JiBX Beta 3a, JFreeChart 0.9.17, GNU Classpath 0.08, RVPF 0.4.0, JBossCache 1.0, Jamit 3.0.0, IzPack 3.5.1, Big Faceless PDF Library 2.1, LPD in Java 0.6.5, edtFTPj 1.2.3, EJBCA 3.0b2 and EJBCA 2.1.3, Abbot GUI Testing Framework 0.12.2, Eclipse 3.0 M8, Spindle 3 beta 3, Resin 3.0.7, mod_jk2 2.0.4, UMLet 3 beta, WBI Development Kit for Java 4.5, JXMLPad 2.2, Code Analyzer 0.5.4, UJAC 0.9.9, jTDS JDBC Driver 0.8-rc1,jConfig 2.5.1, OpenWFE 1.0.0, Jaxor 3.5, JSynthLib 0.18, IDX 1.1, Simulation Toolkit 4.1 and Roller 0.9.8.2.
|
Erik is director of technology at Imacination Software, where he has spent the better part of last year developing the jTalk E-Business Platform. He has close to 20 years of professional experience in software development.
Erik also maintains a blog, as well as a popular linkblog updated daily with the latest Java and technology news. |