Erik's Pulse: 2006-04-18

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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:

Ben — Why is Tomcat called Tomcat.
Jason — Your IDE is too smart for your own good.
Cameron — Why RedHat bought JBoss.
Andreas — Hashing a file in 3 lines.
Howard — Java isn't Open-Sourcey Enough for O'Reilly.
Erik — So long NumberFormatException.
Todd — Why nobody is web testing in Java.
Hani — WebWork doesn't Get AJAX.

Tip of the Week:

Swing Pointers

Tutorial of the Week:

Scripting for the Java Platform

Notable Software Releases:

Advanced Installer 3.9	Apache Tomcat 5.5.17-beta	Aranea Web Framework 1.0 M2
ASM 2.2.2	Cassatt Cross Virtualization Manager (XVM) 1.0	Cayenne 1.2B2
Cleaner 0.1	Click 0.19	DWR 2.0 milestone 1
Eclipse 3.2 RC1	EMF 2.2.0 I200604130000	eXo Platform 2
ExtremePlanner 2.1	GigaSpaces 5	Global Javadoc Viewer 1.8.2
guglhupf 0.3	H2 Database Engine 0.9	iReport Designer for JasperReports 1.2.1
JA-SIG uPortal 2.5.1	Jameleon 3.2	JAPI 0.9.0
JavaAmp 0.0.5	Jaxen 1.1 beta 9	JDBCImporter 0.70
jDTAUS 2.0.1	Jiplet Container 0.0.7a	Jitterbit 0.9.9
jMimetypeLib 0.1	jSh3ll 2.0	JSOS 4.80
JSP Prize Tags 2.6.3	Klementine 0.17B003	LambdaProbe for Tomcat 1.3.0.3
Makagiga 0.9.3 Beta	Migrate-Data 1.0	mvnForum 1.0 GA
Rad Upload 2.22	Ricebridge CSV Manager 1.1.9	Service Integration Bus Explorer 1.0
SimpleCenter 4.0 Beta	ToscanaJ 1.6	Unimaginatively-named Calendar 3.7.0
Wicket 1.2-rc1	YaHP Converter 0.91	YourKit Java Profiler 6.0-EAP3

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Erik C. Thauvin
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