Happy New Year

• Eugene — 2 final or not 2 final.
• Keith — IntelliJ IDEA is free too.
• Brian — Using apt.
• Chris — Finding dependencies with JarJar.
• David — More on coding standards.
• Eric — My Top 10 Java links for 2004.
• Hugh — 5 Top Articles For 2005.
• Rob — Gracefully Shutting Down Java Apps.
• Casey — How NOT to Have Your Talk Accepted for the JavaOne Conference.
• Dion — Sun getting in the way again? FreeBSD just wants a JVM :)
• Christian — Converting Tomcat security to Resin.
• Kirill — A simple class for converting any Java object to XML string.

Tip of the Week:

Outputting Dates in RFC822 and ISO8601 Formats

Tutorial of the Week:

Five Reasons to Move to the J2SE 5 Platform

Notable Software Releases:

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