Erik's Pulse: 2006-01-17

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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:

Aviad — First Blood on the IDE Wars.
Tim — Giving Classpath Problems the Strap.
Rick — Java's Achilles Heel?
Jesper — Java generics quirks.
Aviad — Some thoughts about Java EE 5.
Chris — Most Java Framework are NOT designed for Scalability.
Colin — Spring is Most Certainly Designed for Scalability.
Will — Hibernate vs. Spring.
John — Java can be as productive as Ruby.
Cameron — XML Spy no longer the Best Enterprise Database?

Tip of the Week:

Be careful about using Java RegEx's for simple patterns

Tutorial of the Week:

Manage your JMX-enabled applications with jManage 1.0

Notable Software Releases:

AgileTrack 0.5b	AjaxAnywhere 1.1.0.6	amoeba 0.3.5-pre-5
Asbru WYSIWYG HTML Editor 6.0.13	Axis2 0.94	BongoSurfer 1.7.1-1
Coldtags Suite 2.55	Crispy 0.7	DbWrench Database Design 1.3.0
dinamica 2.1.0	Drools 2.5 BETA 2	EasyCollage 1.5
Eclipse Shaders 1.0.1	FuncPlotter 1.3	ganttproject 2.0-pre3
GNU Classpath 0.20	H2 Database Engine 0.9.1	Information Currency Web Services 0.1.9.2
install4j 3.2.3	J51 0.4	Java XTools 1.5
JavaDesktopEngine 0.8	JBlogEditor 0.6.0	JDataGrid Spreadsheet Edition 1.7
JGoodies Binding 1.0.3 and 1.1 Preview	JGoodies Validation 1.0.3 and 1.1 Beta	jGuard 0.70
JiBX 1.1beta1	jLibrary 1.0beta4	JNIWrapper 3.0
JTRunner 3.0	JXInsight 4.1	launch4j 2.1.0
Liquid Look & Feel 2.9-beta	Mantaray 1.9	Mr. Persister ORM 3.0.15-beta
NetBeans 5.0 Release Candidate	ocl4java 1.2.5	Osmose 0.2.0
oXygen 7.0	Ravenous 0.5.8	Registry-CDC 1.3.0
Registry-J2EE 0.1.0	Registry-J2SE 1.1.0	Restlet 0.19 beta
Ricebridge XML Manager 1.1.1	Simple Framework 2.8.1	SIOX4Java 1.50
SmartInspect 1.3	Spindle 3.2.11	SwingUI 1.0.0
Tapestry JSCookMenu 1.0	TrueMusic 2006.1.15	Tunnel4J 1.0
x10 0.3.0	xmlBlaster 1.1.1	XPlanner 0.7b4
YourKit Java Profiler 5.0.9

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

This story was published in the January 17, 2006 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.

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