Erik's Pulse: 2005-10-11

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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:

Chris — What Is Java's Role in Web 2.0?
Tom — A perfect use for Annotations.
Brian — Extracting the title of an HTML document in Java.
Dan — What happened to Java Pro magazine?
Michael — Swing Tables Done Right.
Dan — Using JNLP/Java Web Start with Java 5.0
Rickard — The JBoss Issue.
Moazam — I'm not sure I understand java.net.
Frank — Java 2 SE 6.0 Aesthetics Preview.
Rick — JSF is second to Struts. The rest are far behind.
Andrew — Switching default JDK on Tiger.
Cameron — Java IDE trivia from JIA.

Tip of the Week:

Simulate @Override in JDK 1.4

Tutorial of the Week:

Java Object Serialization for Ajax

Notable Software Releases:

Advanced Installer 3.3	AjaxAnywhere 1.1	Apache Axis 1.3
Apache Maven 2.0 Beta 3	Apache Maven Continuum 1.0 Beta 1	Apache Tomcat 5.5.12 Stable
AspectJ 5 M4	Axiomatic Multi-Platform C 1.2.8	BlogBridge 2.3
BlueIce Look and Feel 1.0.0	Caché Monitor 0.23	Cayenne 1.2M6
Coldtags Suite 2.40	csvBeans 0.6	doxygen 1.4.5
DRLAssistant 1.1.0	eLaunch 1.0	Excelsior JET 4.0
fetchExc 0.99	FreeMarker 2.3.4	Frinika 0.1.5
Hoople 1.0 RC1	IAB Studio 4.3	IBM Servlet-Based Content Creation Framework 1.0
Jakarta Commons-IO 1.1	JBoss 4.0.3	JFSOM 1.1
JGoodies Binding 1.0.2	JGoodies Looks 1.3.2	JGoodies Validation 1.0.2
JGraph 5.7.3.1	JHylaFAX 1.3.2	JIRA 3.3
JSch 0.1.23	Magic Collection Manager 0.5c	Meditation4All 1.0
MiG Calendar Component 5.5	MindTerm 3.0beta	monq.jfa 0.17
Necessitas 0.4	Oddjob 0.20.0	OOWeb 0.65
opencsv 1.0	Ravenous 0.3.10	Stripes 1.1
Substance look-and-feel 2.0	SuperWaba 5.5	TestNG 4.0
TransfoDocbook 1.5.0	UVC Collaboration Suite 3.7	Wicket 1.1-rc2
XINS 1.3.0-beta3	xnsdoc 1.0	XUI 2.0

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

This story was published in the October 11, 2005 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.

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