Erik's Pulse: 2005-07-26

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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:

Marc — Whats wrong with myString.split().
Rick — JSF is still good.
Behrang — Java/Swing very slow on brand new Athlon64 system.
Bruce — My Take On Generics.
Hani — IDEA's open omgwtfbbqAPI.
Kris — Trusting the JVM Timezone Data.
Nathan — Is your Java offensive or defensive?
Shay — A free event profiler for Java.
Fabien — Java is more productive than Ruby/Rails.
James — Setting up a JNDI context using Spring.

Tip of the Week:

ReverseList for Java

Tutorial of the Week:

LCD Text: Anti-Aliasing on the Fringe

Notable Software Releases:

AltioLive Studio 3.2.6	Antmod 1.2	Apache Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.10-alpha
Big Faceless PDF Library 2.4.3	CACAO 0.92	Cayenne 1.2M5
CRISPY 0.4.0	DB Visual Architect for IntelliJ IDEA 2.0	DB Visual Architect for WebLogic Workshop 2.0
Faces for Laszlo 1.0	FnCharts Pro 4.0	ganttproject 2.0-pre1
Ganymed SSH2 for Java Build 207	Genesis 2.2	GeoServer 1.3.0-RC2
GeoTools 2.1.0	Glazed Lists 0.9.7	GUI Commands 1.1.38
HardCore Web Content Management 5.6	HTTP File Upload Applet 1.0	ICEpdf 2.0
Information Currency Web Services 0.1.3	install4j 3.2	JAG 5.0 RC1
JasperReports 1.0.0	JBoss Server plugin for NetBeans 4.1	JDOInstruments Beta2
JFCML 0.9.7	JHylaFAX 1.2.2	jlo 1.1
JSAP 2.0a	JSwiff 0.9	jSyncManager 1.1 final
JURPE 0.3.5	JXCSS 1.0	JXInsight 3.2.8
JXMLPad 3.5	Magnolia 2.1 RC3	oXygen XML editor 6.1
Ravenous 0.3.0	RSS Notifier 1.0	SDE for IntelliJ IDEA 3.0
SDE for WebLogic Workshop 3.0	ServiceMix 1.0-M1	Sleep 2.0-stable
SmartSVN 1.0 RC1	SpectrumSCM 2.2.3	Synthetica 0.9.9
TestNG-J 0.1.0	Unified I/O 2.5	VLDocking Framework 1.1.2
xFunction 2.16	XINS 1.2.4	xmlenc 0.48
XpoLog Center 2.7	XyVue 1.5.2	YourKit Java Profiler 4.5-EAP13

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

This story was published in the July 26, 2005 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.

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