Erik's Pulse: 2006-10-10

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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:

Andres — Spring 2.0 gotchas.
Andy — TestNG is so Groovy.
Brian — Wrap Strings in Classes to Increase Security.
Andy — JDJ in need of peer review.
Andres — Testing JavaScript with Groovy.
Fabrizo — Cool Apps Developer Challenge: the winners.
Jon — Session-scoped Beans in Spring 2.0.
Darren — Why you need to worry about parallelism.

Tip of the Week:

Neat Java Initializer Trick

Tutorial of the Week:

Instant Messaging in Java Made Easy: The Smack API

Notable Software Releases:

Acegi Security 1.0.2	Advanced Installer 4.4 For Java	AgileTrack 0.7d
AgileWiki 3.5.0.5	Antmod 1.3.2	Aranea 1.0 RC4
Beobachter 1.3	BZByte Ajax 1.2.344	Carrot2
Cayenne 2.0.1-incubating	CCAPI 2.0.0.0	Cell Electrophysiology Simulation Environment 1.4.5
Coldtags 2.80	Commons Lang 2.2	CSV Manager 1.1.11
DBSight 1.3.2	dotCMS 1.2	Eclipse Wikipedia Editor plugin 2.0.5
Excelsior JET 4.5 MP3	fetchExc 1.15	FindBugs 1.1.1-rc3
GFP 0.6.1	GUIdancer 1.1	install4j 4.0
Ivy 1.4 and IvyDE 1.1.0	J2EE Pattern Oriented Framework 1.3	Jagacy VT 1.0 Release Candidate 2
Jakarta BSF 2.4.0	Java.Inquisition 0.1	JBidwatcher 1.0
jbum 1.12	Jess 7.0RC2	JEvaluator 0.5
JewelCLI 0.4	jgnuplot 0.2	JIDE 1.9.3
JNode 0.2.4	JOLIE 0.2	JScience 3.2.0
JSOS 5.05	MagicDraw 11.6	OCEAN GenRap 2006 Milestone 8
Password Recovery for MS Access 1.0	PMD 3.8	Powermanja alpha_3d
RMI Plug-in 2.0.2-beta	SchemaSpy 3.1.0	Sparklines for Java 1.0
Spring Web Flow 1.0 RC4	SQLiteJDBC 025	StelsCSV 3.0
SubEthaSMTP 1.1	Subversive 1.1.0 M5	Tangosol Coherence 3.1.2
TeeChart for Java 1	TOM programming language 2.4	TrackStudio Enterprise 3.5.7
VRaptor 2.2.1	XFire 1.2.2	YALE 3.4
YourKit Java Profiler 6.0-EAP-build1076

The Truth is Out There…
Erik C. Thauvin
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This story was published in the October 10, 2006 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.

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