Erik's Pulse: 2006-11-14

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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:

Rod — Spring Framework: The Origins of a Project and a Name.
Mathew — Java 6 - JavaScript Support.
Paul — Ever wonder why simple byte arithmetic won't compile?
Sacha — FOSS Java, Finally!
C. Enrique — Interpreting Java under GPL — does it force applications to be GPL as well?
Dave — IBM Not So Happy.
David — Yup, GPL.
Danese — The People Who Brought You FOSS Java.

Tip of the Week:

Days.daysBetween(today, christmas);

Tutorial of the Week:

Test Categorization Techniques with TestNG

Notable Software Releases:

Acceleo 1.1.1	Advanced Installer 4.5 For Java	Advanced Java Content Repository API
Allatori Java Obfuscator 1.3	Apache Ant 1.7.0RC1	Arensus 1.1.6
BeanForm 0.6	Clover 2.0.1	Contelligent 9.1.1
DBsight 1.3.4	EJBCA 3.3.2	GeoServer 1.4.0-RC3
Helma 1.5.3	ImageInfo 1.9	Iris Server 2.1
Ivy 1.4.1	Jameleon 3.3-M3	JAMWiki 0.4.3
Java SE 6 Release Candidate	Java SOS 5.10	JCite 1.6
JEC 1.0	Jettison 1.0-alpha-1	JEvaluator 0.6
JIDE 1.9.4	Joda-Time 1.4	JOpt.SDK TourPlanner 1.0.9
Jupe 0.1	MagicDraw UML 12.0 EAP and SysML plugin 1.0 EAP beta	MyEclipse 5.1
OpenClinica 2.0	OVal 0.7	Portecle 1.2
Restlet 1.0 beta 20	Ricebridge CSV Manager 1.2.1	RMBench Relational Modeller 1.0.2
Secure FTP Factory 6.1	Simple persistence for Java 2.0.0	soapUI 1.6
SQLiteJDBC 029	SQuirreL SQL Client 2.3.1	Stripes Web Framework 1.4.2
Substance LAF 3.1	Sundog Database Refactoring Tool 0.6	tichulog-ng 0.1.2-r0028
TripleA 0.8.2.2	XINS 1.5.0-rc1	XMacroJ 0.0.0
XStream 1.2.1	YourKit Java Profiler 6.0-EAP-build1090

The Truth is Out There…
Erik C. Thauvin
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This story was published in the November 14, 2006 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.

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