Erik's Pulse: 2006-01-10

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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:

Cesar — Flash Lite or J2ME?
David — Start Internet Explorer, Mailer and other programs.
Ivan — Java 5.0 annotations.
Jason — Should We Use DynaActionForms In Struts?
Filippo — Talking about Servlet 2.5.
Girish — When to synchronize at method level and when not to?
Romain — Meet the Swing Team, Part 2.
Rick — another reason I love Facelets…
Diego — the bogus Java-vs-everything argument.
Marc — List.subList() enhancement - a List chunker.
Russ — Is Java Dead?
Angsuman — Java, JSP, Servlet, JDBC - Back To The Basics Part 2.
Tom — Even faster StringBuffer.append().
Brandon — Why This MacWorld Means More To Java Developers Than Anyone Else.
Neil — Baselining in Swing.

Tip of the Week:

SwingWorker: Throttling and Monitoring?

Tutorial of the Week:

Use a Profiler to Make Your Java Apps JVM-Friendly

Notable Software Releases:

Advanced Installer 3.6 For Java	amoeba 0.3.4	Antmod 1.3.1
Apache Tomcat 5.5.15-beta	args4j 2.0.2	BlueJ 2.1.1
Cayenne 1.2M10	CC-Config Version 1.3 Build 2	Checkpoint Commander 5.7.0
Coldtags Suite 2.5	Compass Framework 0.8.0	Connect Daily Web Calendar 3.2.7
DesignGridLayout 0.1	EasyCollage 1.4	eXo ECM 1.0 RC1
eXo JCR 1.0 RC2	Fabric 1.2	FunctionalJ 0.7
GenAndRun 0.1.1	Geronimo Version 1.0	Gettext Commons 0.9
GoGrinder 1.14	HBCI4Java 0.8	Hecl Programming Language 20060105
Imagero Reader 1.80	iReport Designer for JasperReports 0.5.3	Itzam/Java 1.2.0
IzPack 3.8.1	Jars Browser 3.0	Java Print Dialog Framework 1.4.1
Java.net Commons 1.0 RC1	Javolution 3.7	JaxMe 0.5.1
JBoss Eclipse IDE 1.5	Jess 7.0b5	JFormula 3.3
jGnash 1.10.4	JGraph 5.7.4.5	JHylaFAX 1.3.5
JIRA 3.4.3	Jnex 3.7	JURPE 0.3.6
JXTA P2P 2.3.6	Maven SourceForge Plugin 1.3	Mevenide Netbeans 2.0
Mp3dings 1.0b1	NativeCall 0.4.0	Parabuild 2.0.4
Qwicap 1.4a4 and 1.3.3	Ravenous 0.5.7	Registry-CDC 1.2.0
Regular Statement String 1.6.6	Ricebridge CSV Manager 1.1.8	Secure FTP Factory 5.3
Sequoia 2.5	SimpleJTA 1.04	Smilehouse Workspace 1.5.1
Smokescreen 3.43	Spindle 3.2.8	Spindle 3.2.9
Tangosol Coherence 3.1 pre-release b327	Tapestry 4.0	Technical Analysis Library 0.1.5
The Frink Language 2006-01-10	TjMSNLib 0.38	TripleA 0.7.3
Tudu Lists 1.1 beta 1	WiseUpload 1.0	WoW Companion 0.2.8
x10 0.2.0	XINS 1.4.0-alpha2	XNap Commons 0.9.4
Z-machine Preservation Project 0.78	Zeus Java Swing Components Library 1.50

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

This story was published in the January 10, 2006 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.

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