Erik's Pulse: 2004-12-07

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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.

Season's Greetings

Keith — What Java generics needs.
Paul — Java Performance Tuning: "common-sense" 101.
Bobby — Change to JMS Sessions in J2EE 1.4.
Brian — Why no mod_jsp?
Dan — Delegates in Java.
Dion — Injecting Dependencies: My Test Classes Want Injection Too.
Erik — Dependency checking of Javac.
Don — Python Tips for Java Programmers.
Bruce — Multiple Return Statements.
Wendong — A few interesting search engines.

Tip of the Week:

Have IDEA mark all qualifying variables as final.

Tutorial of the Week:

Enhance looping in Java 5.0 with for/in.

Notable Software Releases:

AceMDI 1.0	Advanced Graph and Chart Collection 4.6	Advanced Installer 2.2
Antifact 0.1	Apache Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.5-alpha	Apache Portals Jetspeed 2.0 M1
BerkleyDB Java Edition 1.7.0	Cayenne 1.1	Centric CRM 3.0 Preview 1
Connector/J 3.1.5	Conversation Engine 0.2	DbWrench Database Design 1.0.2
delicious-java API 1.2	Drools 2.0 Beta 18	Glazed Lists 0.9.4
Image copier 2.1	iReasoning SNMP MIB Browser 2.0	JAFS 0.9.7
JAFS 0.97	Jakarta Lucene 1.4.3	Jakarta Slide 2.1 R.C.1
Jalopy 1.1.5	JamP 0.523	Jarnal 2.82
Java Code Protector 1.2.0	Java Serialization to XML 2.2.3.6	JChemPaint 2.0.6
JDeveloper 10.1.3 Preview	Jess 7.0a3	JExpress Professional 6.9
JExpress Professional 6.9	JLayer 1.0	Jmol 10pre22
JMP 0.45	JobServer 1.2	JOSSO 1.1.1
Jostraca 0.4.0	jStock 0.5.0	jTimepiece 0.9.0
JTrigger 1.0	Norrell 0.1.0	MagicDraw UML 9.0 beta2
Maven 1.0.2	MQ Visual Browse 1.3.0	MQ Visual Edit 1.3.0
MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 3.8.2	QuestAgent 7.0	Sketsa 2.2.1
TestNG 2.0	ULC Visual Editor for Eclipse 3.0.1	YourKit Java Profiler 3.2

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

This story was published in the December 7, 2004 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.

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