Erik's Pulse: 2006-08-15

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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.

I'm taking a few weeks off to recharge the batteries. The Pulse will be back on the week of September 18.

Picks of the Week:

Rob — Auto-toString() Trace Aspect.
Morten — Do's and Dont's for exception handling.
Brian — Replace simulated Java lists with Iterable.
Shay — Hibernate Vs. Spring - Hibernate Template.
Mark — Yes, we really are going to open-source the JDK.
Brian — Read-only enhanced for loops in Java.
Adam — Some useful tools for the (ancient) J2EE.
Ben — Idiots guide to installing Java 5 and Tomcat 5 on Linux Red Hat.

Tip of the Week:

Some Notes on Dynamic Class Loading

Tutorial of the Week:

Using XTags to Add XSLT Transformations to Your JSP Web Applications

Notable Software Releases:

Ajax4jsf 1.0	Ant Commander 1.0	Axiomatic Multi-Platform C 1.4.5
Backbase AJAX Java Edition 1.2	Big Faceless Graph Library 2.2.4	Bitgate Server Software Environment 0.2.2
Cibyl 1	Clover framework 1.9.0	Cobra 0.95.3
DiffJ 1.1.0	Domino Javadoc Generator 0.4	EBookME 1.1 b3
Eclipse 3.3 M1	EclipseME 1.5.5	EZMorph 0.8
EZMorph 0.8	Ganttproject 2.0.2	Glazed Lists 1.7.0
GNU Classpath 0.92	GWT 1.1.0	H2 Database Engine 0.9/2006-08-14
Helma 1.5.1	Java Application Monitor API 2.2	Java Outlook Connector 2.0.0
Java Preferences Tool 0.7	jBixbe 1.0-Beta	JBossESB 4.0 Beta1
JGoodies Binding 1.1.2	JGoodies Swing Suite 1.6.1	JNIWrapper 3.3
JOnAS 4.8.1 RC1	JOOReports 2.0rc2	JPedal 2.8
Just Journal 1.0 Alpha 2	Light Portal 1.0.0 Beta	Pax Logging 0.9.2
Rats! 1.8.2	RMI Plug-in for Eclipse 2.0	SCAP-Java 0.9
Simpy-Java API 1.2	SISC 1.15.2	SmartCVS 5.1
SmartSWT 3.1 beta	SmsDumper 0.8.2	Stripes 1.4 Beta 1
Sun JDK 5.0_08	Surface 1.5	TDA 1.1
Thread Dump Analyzer 1.1	Uncrustify 0.0.24	VRaptor 2.1
XINS 1.5.0-alpha4	xulfaces 0.7	YourKit Java Profiler 6.0-EAP-build1048

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

This story was published in the August 16, 2006 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.

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