Erik's Pulse: 2005-04-05

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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:

Orcun — How to send SMS in J2ME?
Luis — Eclipse Easter Egg: Heap Monitor.
Dan — Tim Bray does JINI.
Michael — Should Joel be on Java?
Dion — Perl Deja Vu with new Groovy Syntax.
Charles — Random Tomcat Annoyance.
Javier — Swing: A Sun's call to action (whining?)
Xin — HOWTO: Clean my Eclipse?
Alan — Generating a random string.
Eugene — Few tips on how to design a good Ant build.

Tip of the Week:

Validating IP Addresses with JDK Regex

Tutorial of the Week:

Investigate JVM Crashes

Notable Software Releases:

Apache Ant 1.6.3beta1	Apache Jetspeed 2.0 M2	Arjuna Transaction Service Suite 4
AtLeap 0.5 Beta 2	BlackBerry Java Development Environment 4.0.1	BluesBeans 0.9 Preview
Centric CRM 3.0 Test 1	Clustered JDBC 1.2	Daffodil DB 4.1
DbWrench 1.0.8	Easy Generator Generator 1.0	EclipseME 0.9.0
ESC/Java2 2.0a8	Gallery Mage 2.4.1	HeapAnalyzer 1.3.4
Hibernate 3.0 Stable	install4j 3.1.4	Ivy 0.8
JAFS 0.9.8	Jakarta Commons Configuration 1.1	Jakarta Tapestry 3.0.3
JAlbum 5.2	JamVM 1.3.0	JChemPaint 2.0.11
JDataGrid Database Edition 1.4	JDataGrid Spreadsheet Edition 1.4	JGoodies Looks 1.3.1
JOnAS 4.3.4 Stable	JORAM 4.2 Final Release	JPF 0.5
JSwat Java Debugger 2.34	jTagger 0.99.6	JTroll License Key Generator
JXHTMLEDIT 4.0.004	JXInsight 3.1.7	Kasai 1.1.0 beta 1
Khadira beta3	Kodo JDO 3.3.1	MevenIDE for JBuilder 0.2
MikMod for Java 0.4.0	Pebble 1.7.2	Sleep 2.0b3
Sony Ericsson J2ME SDK 2.2.0	Spindle 3.1.21	SVG Eclipse Plugin 4.0.1
Tapestry Palette 0.1.1	The Ng Java Roguelike Engine 0.2.0	VietPad 1.2
viPlugin 1.11.0	VisualStruts 1.1	Wi.Ser 0.6.9
Wicket 1.0.0-rc1	WmUnit 6.3.2	yDoc 2.2

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

This story was published in the April 5, 2005 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.

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