Erik's Pulse: 2006-02-14

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:

Romain — IntelliJ IDEA is Really Cool.
Cédric — Surveying the IDE landscape.
Uri — Java Annotations - We're not quite there yet!
Alexandru — An Eclipse user in IDEA-land.
Ryan — Why bother with SWT over Swing?
Vincent — Street fight: Netbeans 5.0 vs IDEA 5.1: Round 1.
Bob — I was too hard on Spring...
Malcolm — Why are you uninstalling NetBeans IDE?

Tip of the Week:

Five Habits of Highly Effective Builds

Tutorial of the Week:

Introduction: Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform

Notable Software Releases:

AMP 0.9.1 Beta	BlogBridge 2.13 Stable	CACAO 0.95
Carbide.j 1.0	Cayenne 1.1.4	Cayenne ORM 1.2M11
Clover framework 1.8.0	Datamixer 0.1.87 beta	DaVinci 1.0 alpha
DBsight 1.2.2	DisplayTag 1.1	E-Gantt 0.4.9
EclipseXSLT 1.0.5	EclipseXUL 0.0.2	EMF 2.2.0 I200602090000
Flamingo 1.0	Fuse 0.1	ganttproject 2.0
GCViewer 1.24	GPSMap 0.5.1	holodeck10-image-print 1.0
IAB Studio RIA Server 4.5	IBM Reflexive User Interface Builder 1.0.1	IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4 1.2.8
j2Wallet 1.0 Beta #4	JADC 1.0.007	Jaggregate 2.0 beta 2
Jajuk 1.1	JAPI 0_6-alpha-1	Java Print Dialog Framework 1.4
JavaSVN 1.0.3	JBoss Mail Server 1.0M4-final	JBoss Remoting 1.4.0
JDDM 2.1.003	JFtp 1.48	jGetFile 0.76-beta
Jofti 1.2-beta1	JPartialDownloader 1.5	jrawio 1.0.RC3
JRelaxTimer 1.0.001	JWTM 1.1.003	JXHTMLEDIT 4.0.005
KnightFight 1/10/06	MindRaider 0.512 EAP	One$DB 4.1
OpenSign 1.4.1	RabbIT 3.0-pre-release	Seam 1.0 beta 2
Shipwreck 1.0 beta 4	SkinLF 6.2	SmallSQL 0.10
SmallSQL 0.11	SmoothMetal 1.1	StelsCSV 2.4
Substance LAF 2.2	Synthetica 1.4.0	TestNG 4.5
Tomcat Probe 1.0.9b	TrackIt 1.0.0	UnicodeConverter 1.3
UniMailer 2.0	UPNPLib 1.0.3	VietIME 1.2
WSDL and Eclipse 3.1	XINS 1.4.0-alpha3	ZoneLayout 1.0

The Truth is Out There...
Erik C. Thauvin
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This story was published in the February 14, 2006 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.