Erik's Pulse: 2005-08-16

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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:

Justin — EJB 3 Annotations cheat sheet.
Ryan — Web Development Done Right.
David — Shrinking Java in a Nutshell.
Marc — some more on the IDEA vs. Eclipse topic.
Scott — Java Class Joke.
Kirill — How to use "undocumented secret" Swing properties.
Antonio — SwingWorker: for SWT too!
Berin — TestNG, What's the big deal?

Tip of the Week:

Hacking Swing with Undocumented Classes and Properties

Tutorial of the Week:

Multi-Threading in a Java Environment

Notable Software Releases:

Advanced Installer 3.1	Ant Explorer 1.0	Apache AXIS2-0.91
Apache Muse 1.0	BtFree 1.0	DB Visual Architect 2.0 for NetBeans (20050624e)
DbWrench Database Design 1.2.1	Deskzilla 1.0 b2	Directory Poller 1.5
DWR 1.0RC3	Eclipse 1.0.4	Eclipse 3.2M1
Elastic Path 4.0	Facelets 0.8	Hibernate Annotator (H8A8) 0.2-preview
hloader 0.7	Jackcess 1.1	Java 1.3.1 & 1.4.2 Release 2 DP4 for Mac OS X
Java 2 SDK 1.4.2_09	Java Wireless Toolkit 2.3 Beta	Java Xcripted Page 1.4.0
JaxMe 0.5	JBoss Mail Server 1.0 Milestone 3RC1	JDOInstruments Beta 2.5
Jess 7.0b2	JGlide 1.0	JIDE 1.8.3
Joda-Time 1.1	JOnAS 4.5.3 RC	jTokeniser 1.2.1
JTreeFileBrowser 1.1	Juxy 0.6.7	JVending Registry 0.12
Kitikat 5.08	launch4j 2.0.RC3	LibSudoku 1.0
Magnolia 2.1 RC4	mod_gcj 0.5	ObjectBridge (OB) 1.1
ocl4java 0.5	Oddjob 0.18.0	Orangevolt XSLT Plugin for Eclipse 1.0.4
Parabuild 2.0 EAP Build 570	PgsBindings 0.4	Redstone Prevalent Storage 1.0
SDE 3.0 for IntelliJ (20050624e)	SDE for JBuilder 3.0 (20050624e)	Secure FTP Bean 2.5
Simple Log 1.7	SwingWeb 1.0.0-RC1	Tapestry 4.0 Beta 4
TrackIt 1.0 Beta 2	TrackStudio Enterprise 3.1.9	WebSphere Extended Deployment 6.0
YourKit Java Profiler 4.5-EAP18

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

This story was published in the August 16, 2005 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.

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