Erik's Pulse: 2005-04-12

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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:

Joseph — JMeter Quickstart for Load Testing Web Applications.
Geert — Myth: Java can't scale down.
Evan — Getting Started with Cocoa Java.
Matthew — Setting up eclipse for painless upgrades.
Eric — Immutable classes.
Charles — Why Eclipse Developers Are Moving To NetBeans.
Cyrille — What Java developers have to know about databases?
Dion — Caller context and list.add(..).add(..).add(..).
Wolf — It is not all good with J2ME on the Mac.
Bill — Why Java on the Desktop Just Doesn't Matter.

Tip of the Week:

Debugging Any Application with Eclipse

Tutorial of the Week:

Building smart J2ME mobile applications, Part 1

Notable Software Releases:

Apache Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.9 Stable	Apache MyFaces 1.09	AspectJ 5 M2
Blitz JavaSpaces 1.08	Blitz JavaSpaces 2.1.20 (Server Edition)	BlogBridge 1.0 Final
Clustered JDBC 1.2.1	DDE for Java 3.0	FireStorm/DAO 2.4
Fit 1.1	Generic Algorithms for Java 0.7	HippoLF 0.7.1
IDEtalk 0.5.3	Ivy 1.0-rc1	Jackcess 1.0
Jakarta Commons HttpClient 3.0rc2	JamVM 1.3.0	JasperReports 0.6.6
Java checkstyle Tool 4.0 beta 1	Java Date Picker 4.0	Java Log analyzer 1.1.1
JavaSpaces Starter Kit for Jini 2.1	JavaSVN 0.8.7	jaxen 1.1-beta-4
jGnash 1.9.0	JGraph 5.4.5	JGraph Layout Pro 1.1
JGraphpad 5.4.4	jMemorize 0.9	jperfmeter 0.9
JRegexpTester 0.3	Jude 0.99	Jxp 1.3.0
MagicDraw UML 9.5	Maven 2.0 Technology Preview	ObjectVisualizer 1.0.1
OpenWFE 1.5.1	PDFBox 0.7.1	Pebble 1.7.2
Profiler That Doesn't Suck 0.0.4	ROME 0.6	Sleep 2.0b4
sqlDESKTOP 2.00	SVG Plugin for Eclipse 3.1	TestNG 2.3
Wi.Ser 0.6.9	XFire 1.0-M4	XTT 5.0

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

This story was published in the April 12, 2005 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.

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