Erik's Pulse: 2007-03-20

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:

Atul — Returning Arrays or Objects - A Security Problem in Java.
Danno — Groovy SwingBuilder and Bindings, a Hole to be Filled.
Robin — Dependency injection is my new best friend.
Clara — jDuchess - Ladies of Java.
Kirill — Spring effects on buttons - now at your nearest look and feel.
Cédric — Designing for Testability.
Kirill — Java on the desktop - trail behind or lead forward?
Alexander — How to build completely dynamic example with Spring 2, Scriptlandia, Beanshell, Groovy and JRuby.
David — Re: A dozen tips for testing free software.
Frank — Java Wish List #1 - Broadcast JDBC data changes.

Tip of the Week:

Reloading a Spring Web Application

Tutorial of the Week:

What is new in Java 6.0 Collections API?

Notable Software Releases:

Analyst4j 1.0.0	Apache Velocity 1.5	Aranea 1.0.6
Big Faceless PDF Library 2.7.8	Bitgate Server Software Environment 0.3.2	Coldtags 3.0
Confluence 2.4(.2)	DbWrench Database Design 1.4.1	eHour 0.4
eXo JCR 1.5 and eXo ECM 1.2	FindBugs 1.2.0-rc3	Hyperic HQ 3.0.2
Jagacy 3270 1.5.3	Jagacy VT 1.1	Jakarta Commons HttpClient 3.1-rc1
Jakarta Commons Transaction 1.2	JAlbum 7.1	Java Pet Store 2.0
Java String Analyzer 1.1-3	jPDF 7.0	JSmooth 0.9.9-2
LMS OLAT 5.1	marauroa 1.91	MiG Calendar Component 6.0
ObjectBox o:XML Compiler 1.1.6	OpenSubsystems 1.0rc3	OVal 0.9
Profanity Platform 1.0	QuipuKit 1.1.1	Ravenous 0.9.5
Scenic 0.12.2	Sketsa SVG Graphics Editor 4.2	Sleep 2.1-b13
soapUI 1.7 beta2	Spket IDE 1.5.5	Subversive 1.1.0
Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 1 Technology Preview	The DJ Project 20070314	UDoc 1.005
WidgetServer 1.4.5	YajHFC 0.3.2

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Erik C. Thauvin
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This story was published in the March 20, 2007 issue of the Javalobby Newsletter.