Erik's Pulse: 2005-05-17

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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:

Weiqi — There Is No Such Thing As A "Java Architect"…
Nick — Why Apache Harmony is important.
Eugene — Why IBM would need a second open-source JVM.
Davanum — Why do we need an open source Java?
Kirk — Creating a jars with IntelliJ.
Glen — Annoying Java system properties.
David — Generics can force uncomfortable design choices.
Cédric — Ant profiling.

Tip of the Week:

Neat Hidden Java 5 Feature

Tutorial of the Week:

Programming the BlackBerry With J2ME

Notable Software Releases:

1060 NetKernel 2.0.6	AltioLive Studio 4.0 Beta	Apache Maven 2.0 Alpha 2
ApacheDS 0.9	ASM 2.0	ComponentSet 1.3.0
ConceptualTesting 1.0	DbWrench 1.1.0	delicious-java API 1.6
doxygen 1.4.3	Drools 2.0-rc2	EclipseME 0.9.2
EditiX 4.0	edtFTPj 1.4.9	Excelsior JET 3.7 MP1
Fjavac 0.1	ganttproject 1.11.1	GooglME 4.0.2
HL7 Comm 0.5	HttpUpload 0.2	Indus 0.6
InstallAnywhere 7	J2ME OGC WMS Client 1.1.0	JasperReports 0.6.7
Java Calendar Component 2.1	Javolution 3.3	JDataGrid Database Edition 1.5.0
JDataGrid Spreadsheet Edition 1.5.0	JDirectoryChooser Java Bean 1.0.0	JHttpTunnel 0.0.4
Jimm 0.4.0	JPOX 1.1.0-beta-3	jsXe 0.4 pre1
JTR (Java Test Runner) 2.0	JURPE 0.3.4	Jurtle 1.8
JWordPress.v.1.1	JZlib 1.0.6	Kasai 1.1.0 beta 2
launch4j 2.0.beta1	Lint4j 0.8.1	MetaBoss 1.2.0001
MyEclipse 4.0 m1	NetBeans Mobility Pack 4.1	NV2D 0.5
Orangevolt XSLT Feature 1.0	Payload 0.5	SDE 2.1 for NetBeans 4.1
Simple Log 1.6	Simple Logging Facade for Java 1.0beta3	Spring Framework 1.2
The Frink Language 2005-05-11	TrackStudio Enterprise 3.1.5	Visual Paradigm for UML 4.1 20050517a
Visual Rules 3.0.2	Xito Dialog Framework 0.9.0	YourKit Java Profiler 4.0.11

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

This story was published in the May 17, 2005 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.

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