Erik's Pulse: 2006-05-02

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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:

Daniel — Java Source File Encoding.
Vincent — Simple Thread Profiling.
Bill — How Useful Are Code Metrics?
Calvin — Java: What's in a name.
Russ — Three Languages For Java Programmers.
Charles — Help Spread The Java Platform To Visual Basic and C# Developers.
Geertjan — Matisse: Even Better Than I Thought.

Tip of the Week:

Five Truths About Code Optimization

Tutorial of the Week:

The Mustang Meets the Rhino: Scripting in Java 6

Notable Software Releases:

Apache Tomcat 5.5.17	BasicQuery 01.01.04	Big Faceless Graph Library 2.2
Big Faceless PDF Library 2.6.9	Big Faceless Report Generator 1.1.30	BlueJ 2.1.3
Capivara 0.7.5.1	Coherence 3.2 Pre-Release (build 351)	DBSight 1.2.7
DocBook Doclet 1.0.2	Eclipse 3.2 RC2	Enhydra JaWE 2.0-3
eXo Portal 1.1.1	Explicit Table Builder 0.1.25	FindBugs 0.9.7
FreeMarker 2.3.7rc1	FreeWebPieChart4J 1.0	HBCI4Java 2.5.0rc-7
Indus 0.8	iReport Designer for JasperReports 1.2.2	iScreen 0.9.0
JasperReports 1.2.2	Java CoG Kit 4.1.4	Java Interactive Profiler 1.0.5
Java Parallel Processing Framework 0.16.0	JAXX 0.95	jDTAUS 2.0.3
JGraph 5.8.1	Jitterbit 0.9.10	jMock 1.1.0RC1
jNetStream 0.2.4	JOnAS 4.7.3 RC	JRun Cheetah Beta
jsXe 0.4 beta	JUnit 4.1	Kaveri 0.8
Klementine 0.18B002	MagicBus 0.7.2	Overactive Logistics Pre Alpha 1.1
Parabuild 2.1 EA	Pulse Automated Build Server 1.0.1 (beta)	Ravenous 0.7.5
Restlet 1.0 beta 10	RSF 0.6.1	SmartInspect 1.4
SmartInspect 1.4	Substance LAF 2.3 RC	TOM 2.3rc3
TrackStudio Enterprise 3.5 beta 1	TypeKey4J 1.1	World Of Java 1.0
XFIRe 1.1 RC	XINS 1.4.0	Xj3D 1.0

The Truth is Out There…
Erik C. Thauvin
[email protected]

This story was published in the May 2, 2006 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.

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