Erik's Pulse: 2006-08-01

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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:

Chris — Middle of the Code.
Dan — You can say "Java EE is Dead"… just make sure the advertisements don't contradict you.
Gavin — Using Abstraction frameworks to maintain control? Wrong bet.
Paul — Java Brain Teaser.
Darren — Log4j with xml configuration.
Michael — Java Character Encoding Conversion.
A. Sundararajan — Thou shall know the .class file version!
Don — Handy SQL Scripting Tool.
Brian — Remove Duplicates from a List.
Brian — A Java trick with varargs to enforce argument count.
Jason — Let's have a Java Web Frameworks amnesty.
Miles — Why do we still have Arrays?

Tip of the Week:

An Evil Trick with Ant

Tutorial of the Week:

The Java XPath API

Notable Software Releases:

Ammentos 1.1.0	Apache XMLRPC 3.0rc1	Aranea Web Framework 1.0 M4
Big Faceless Graph Library 2.2.3	Big Faceless Report Generator 1.1.31	BlogBridge 3.0 Final
Caliph & Emir 0.9.23	CC-Config 1.5 build 1	Commons Modeler 2.0
Communiqué 4.1	CRX 1.2	CSS Designer 1.2.2
DataBrowser 3.3.3	DiffJ 1.0.7	Domino Javadoc Generator 0.3
DPML SDK 1.0.0	edtFTPj 1.5.3	Esper 1.0
eXo JCR 1.0 and ECM 1.0	HermesJMS 1.10	HSE 2.0b1
Hudson 1.35	Imagero 1.9.1_6	IntelliJ 6 beta
iText 1.4.3	Jackcess 1.1.5	Jahia 5.0 Community Edition
Jakarta Commons SCXML 0.5	Java SOS 4.95	Java VideoLan Client Bindings 0.0.8
JDBC Driver for SQLite 1	JEvaluator 0.2	JExpress Professional 7.0.1
JGraph 5.10 Beta 1	JOOConverter 2.1rc1	JsTester 1.1
JSwat Java Debugger 3.12	LambdaProbe 1.6	Launch4j 3.0.0-pre1
mod_jk 1.2.18	Mr. Persister ORM 3.2.9-beta	Mutator 0.5 beta
MySQL Connection/J 5.0.3	MySQL2JSP 0.2	NetBeans 5.5 Beta 2
Odyssi Certificate Server 0.1	QuipuKit JSF Library EAP	RabbIT 3.3
RadRails 0.7 for Eclipse 3.2	RIFE Java Web Framework 1.5	Roma Framework 0.9.7
Secure FTP Factory 5.8	Subversive 1.0.0	Surface 1.4
TWaver 1.4	VLDocking 2.1	Whoosh! mobile email 3.9

The Truth is Out There…
Erik C. Thauvin
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This story was published in the August 1, 2006 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.

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