Erik's Pulse: 2005-03-29

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Erik C. Thauvin maintains a blog, as well as one of the web's first and most popular linkblogs, which he updates daily with the latest Java and technology news.

Picks of the Week:

Paul — Getting it Wrong.. 1.. 2.. 3.. 4 Times.
Ugo — Comparable vs. equals().
Elliotth — Classes per package in the JDK.
Jose — Running XMLHttpRequest with Java.
Luis — The state of Java on Mac OS X.
Carlos — Tracing an application using AspectJ.
Thomas — Rapid Web Development with Spring/Velocity/Jython/Hibernate.
Alex — Jython "is" operator confusion.
Kent — Playing with JDK 5 output format specifiers.
Scott — Swing vs. AWT: Performance.

Tip of the Week:

Share Java IDE Settings with Your Peers

Tutorial of the Week:

Screen-scraping with XQuery

Notable Software Releases:

Apache Cocoon 2.1.7	Apache Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.9-alpha	blojsom 2.24
Coldtags suite 2.1	Crionics jPDF Suite 5.0	Daffodil CRM 1.1
DataVision 0.92	DB Browser 1.4.0	DB Visual Architect for Eclipse 1.0
DocFlex/XML 1.0	Drone IRC Bot 1.3	Echo2 Web Framework
Echomine Muse 0.81	Eclipse 3.0.2	EMMA 2.0.4120
Excelsior JET 3.7	Extensible Java Profiler 2.2beta1	Gallery Mage 2.4.0
GNU Classpath 0.14	Groovy 1.0-beta-10	Jakarta HiveMind 1.1-alpha-3
JasperAssistant 1.5.2	Jawin 2.0-alpha1	JDIC 0.9
JetNuke 0.8 Portal	JFDraw 1.6.0	JFlag 0.42
JGraph Picasso 5.4.4	JLipSync March 29, 2005	JNanoScript 0.2.6
Jomic 0.9.8	JPoller 1.3.2	JSyntaxColor 1.2.8
JXHTMLEDIT 4.0.000	Launch4j 1.4.2	LiDO XD 3.1
Matrex 1.0 M1	NeoLoad 1.0	NeoOffice/J 1.1 Beta Patch-10
PJIRC 2.2.1	PMD 3.0	Pragmatic WebControls 0.55 beta
RefactorIT 2.5.0.5	Seadragon 1.0 Beta	Spindle 3.1.19
Spring 1.2 RC1	SwarmStream Public Edition 3.0b2	TestNG-Eclipse 1.0
VLDocking Framework 1.0	WebCharts3D 5.0e	WidgetServer 0.6.8beta
XMLConfigreader 1.0.001	XTT 5.0 Beta 4	YourKit Java Profiler 4.0.3

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

This story was published in the March 29, 2005 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.

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