Erik's Pulse: 2005-12-20

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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:

Bob — Null Placeholders in JDK 1.5.
Brian — Reinventing the enum in Java.
Goldy — Is Java really Dying?
David — Log4j vs Java 1.4 Logging - Is there a difference?
Angsuman — Reverse Hyping Java - Myth and realities.
Brian — New math functions in JDK6.
Harshad — A quick look at EJB 3.0 Stateless Session Beans.
Jonas — Java Killed The Innovation Of Computer Languages.
Matthew — External Sorts in Java.
Bruce — Hey Gosling: This is why we don't use Java 5.0 yet!

Tip of the Week:

A Simple Database Viewer

Tutorial of the Week:

Using AJAX with Java Technology

Notable Software Releases:

AjaxAnywhere 1.1.0.5	Ant Commander 1.0 Beta 2	Apache Geronimo 1.0
Apache Maven 2.0.1	ASM 2.2.1 & 3.0 beta	Big Faceless Graph Library 2.1
Big Faceless PDF Library 2.6.5	Cayenne 1.2M9	CodeSugar Eclipse Plugin 1.3.0
Commons Configuration 1.2	Commons HttpClient 3.0	Database Bean Generator 2.0.6
DataMovil 2.3 beta	EditiX 4.3	Excelsior JET 4.1
Fabric 1.1 – Visual JavaBeans	FuncPlotter 1.2.1	GAJET 20051220
H2 Database Engine 0.9	HelpSetMaker 0.9.6	HyperCare 1.003
IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4 2.7	JAlbum 6.1	Jamit 5.0
Java Checkstyle Tool 4.1	Java VideoLan Client Bindings 0.0.4	Javadocs Plugin 2.0-beta-3 for Maven 2
JavaSVN 1.0.1	JAXP 1.3.1	JDraw 1.1.4
jGnash 1.10.3	JGraph 5.7.4.4	JGroups 2.2.9
JSummer 0.0.4.0	JSwat 3.4	Jubler 3.0.0-rc1
JyConsole 1.0	Kacheck/J 5.0	Koalog Constraint Solver 3.0
lmappletserver 1.0.0-beta1	MagicDraw UML 10.5	MetaBoss 1.4.0001
Parabuild 2.0.3	PlanetaMessenger.org 0.2 Beta 4	POMStrap 1.0.1
Poseidon for UML 4.0	RAR Plugin 2.1 for Maven 2	Ravenous 0.5.5
RIFE 1.3	SAFMQ 0.1	Serving XML 0.3.2
Synthetica 1.3.0	Tapestry 4.0-rc-2	TrueLicense Library Collection (TLC) 1.20
TrueZIP 4.0	VTD-XML 1.0	yFiles 2.4
YourKit Java Profiler 5.0.7	Z-machine Preservation Project 0.75

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

This story was published in the December 20, 2005 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.

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