Erik's Pulse: 2006-10-24

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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:

Cédric — Annotation transformers in Java.
Adam — Non Java Programmers, are often the best Java EE developers (Sad But True) :-)
Debasish — Why OOP Alone in Java is Not Enough.
Don — SUN Questions Eclipse Download Metrics.
Elliotth — Using HTML in Swing Components.
Kirill — Checkers Easter egg for Swing applications.
Luigi — Trimming JDBC.
Dana — Will open source Java matter?

Tip of the Week:

Why Do Pointless if Statements Even Compile?

Tutorial of the Week:

Invoking Assembly Language Programs from Java

Notable Software Releases:

AgileWiki 3.5.0.11	AppFuse 1.9.4	Barbecue 1.5-alpha2
BZByte Ajax 1.3.387	Compass 1.0.1	DBsight 1.3.3
DocBook 1.71.1	doxygen 1.5.0	Eclipse Google Code Search Plugin 1.0.1
edtFTPj/PRO 1.3.0	Equinox 1.7	Faster Java Serialization 0.22
FastTrack 1.0	Gant 0.2.0	GeoServer 1.4.0-RC1
GFP 0.6.2	Google Web Toolkit 1.2	HelpSetMaker 1.0.2
Hibero 2.0	HSE 2.0b2	Jameleon 3.3-M2
Java 3D 1.5.0-beta (build6)	Java Embedded Python 2.0	Java Print Dialog Framework 1.5.1
Java Service Wrapper 3.2.3	Java Unified Expression Language 2.1.0-rc3	Jawflow 1.0.0
JAX-WS 2.1 EA2	JGame 1.2	jGCS 0.5
Jimm 0.5	JOLIE 0.2.2	JOpt Simple 2.2
JOpt.SDK Tour Solver 1.0.7	JRuby 0.9.1	JSP Prize Tags 3.1.9-beta
Juxy 0.8	jxcell 1.5	LMS OLAT 5.0.1
Marathon 1.0	Mr. Persister 3.5.9-beta	MyJSQLView 2.5
NetKernel 3.1	Nuxeo Runtime 1.0.1	ObjectWeb Lomboz 3.2
Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.3.1	PaperClips 0.6.1	Restlet 1.0 beta 19
RMI Plug-in for Eclipse 2.0.2	Sequoia 2.10.1	StatCVS 0.2.3
Subversive 1.1.0 M7	Synthetica 2.1.0: Extended Synth Look and Feel	SysUpTime Network Monitor 3.11
Tapestry JSCookMenu 2.11	TrackStudio Enterprise 3.5.8	VRaptor 2.2.2
Xholon runtime framework 0.4	YourKit Java Profiler 6.0-EAP-build1080	ZDT 0.6.0

The Truth is Out There…
Erik C. Thauvin
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This story was published in the October 24, 2006 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.

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