Erik's Pulse: 2004-10-12

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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.

Tips, Tricks and Kitten

Stefan — How to detect Ant 1.6.2 (or later).
Matt — Resin slower than Tomcat, fails the AppFuse Test.
Filippo — Java 5 - "final" is not final anymore.
Nathan — How to write an ant task in under a minute.
Carlos — Hidding stack traces to users in Struts.
Goldy — How to Scroll an Image in MIDP.
Simon — Every Time You Use Struts God Kills Another Kitten.
Jonni — Upgrading to Commons Validator 1.1.3 Step-by-Step.
Jeff — Maven: Howto precompile your JSPs with Tomcat 5.
Lars — Reload classes in Tomcat on the fly.
Bill — Writing Servlets with Jython tutorial.

Tip of the Week:

Java Programming Gotchas

Tutorial of the Week:

Get Environment Variables and Invoke Subprocesses

Notable Software Releases:

ActiveMQ 1.1	Apache Axis 1.2 RC 1	Apache Jakarta Tomcat 4.1.31
Apache Jakarta Tomcat 5.0.29-beta	Apache Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.3-alpha	Apache Pluto 1.0.1-rc1
AppFuse 1.6	Clustered JDBC 1.0.4	Crionics jPDF Suite 4.0.11
Daisy CMS 1.0	db4o 3.0	del.icio.us API 1.0
EclipseME 0.5.5	ehcache 1.0	Ekspos 0.6.1
Findbugs 0.8.5	GooglME 0.1	WebSphere 6.0
IntelliJ IDEA 4.5.2	iReport Designer 0.4.0	JabRef 1.55
Jakarta Commons HttpClient 2.0.2	JAlbum 5.0	JasperAssistant 1.4.0
JaXLib 0.6.1	JChain 1.6.5	JDBCImporter 0.62
JDBInsight 3.0 EA3	Jess 7.0a2	Jetty 5.0
JFDraw 1.2.1	JFDraw Free Version 1.2.0	Jfilerunner 0.1.0
JGraph 5.1	jlGuiApplet 2.3.1	JRegexpTester 0.12
JSystem 1.3.2	JSystem 1.3.2	Kasai 1.0.0
Mantaray 1.1	Maven AspectJ plugin 3.2	MevenIDE for JBuilder 0.1
muCommander 0.7	MyJavaPack 1.0	OpenOffice.org 1.1.3
PDFBox 0.6.7	SearchBlox 2.0	SLAMD 1.8.0
Spindle 3.1.13	Apache Pluto 1.0.1-rc1	Findbugs 0.8.5

The Truth is Out There…
Erik C. Thauvin
erik@javalobby.org

This story was published in the October 12, 2004 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.

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