Erik's Pulse: 2007-04-03

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:

Adam — How to be Java Guru without knowing Java (at least in meetings)
Simon — Do you need a Java architect?
Debasish — Making Classes Unit-Testable.
Geertjan — How Cool is Swing in Groovy?
Alex — Java inheritance question.
Andy — Sketching complexity with Groovy.
Stephen — Closures - Outside Java.
Pat — IDEA Really is That Good.

Tip of the Week:

Retrieving .class Files from a Running App

Tutorial of the Week:

Pure Servlets: Rethink the View

Notable Software Releases:

Apache Batik 1.7 beta1	Batik 1.7beta1	Bean-Properties 1.0
beaTunes 1.1.4	BlogBridge 5.0	Cobra 0.96.1
CSS4J 0.6	Database Bean Generator 2.1.1	DB Solo 2.1
DBsight 1.3.9	EJOE 0.3.9.2	EJOE 0.3.9.2
eXo Portlet COntainer 2.0 beta	fetchExc 2.0	FilterList 1.0.2 released
FindBugs 1.2.0-rc4	HandyTapestry 1.0	HtmlRipper 2.1.5
Imagero 1.9.6_16	IntelliJ IDEA 6.0.5	iReport Designer for JasperReports 1.3.2
IzPack 3.10.1	Jakarta HttpComponents HttpCore 4.0 alpha4	JasperReports 1.3.2
JetBrains TeamCity 2.0 Beta	JGame 1.3	JRegexpTester 0.37
Json-lib 1.1	JxBrowser EAP2	JXInsight 5.1
Mars Simulation Project 2.80	Maven 2.0.6	PDFTextStream 2.0.5
QuipuKit 1.1.2	Ravenous 0.9.7	Remuco 0.5.0
RestfulBeans 0.2.0	Roma Framework 1.0 rc 1	Scriptella ETL 0.8
Seam 1.2.1	Simple XML Framework 1.1.3	SOHT 0.6.1
SVNKit 1.1.2	VRaptor 2.3.2	Xholon runtime framework 0.5
Xload 1.2_14	YourKit Java Profiler 6.0.14	Z-machine Preservation Project 0.92_02

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Erik C. Thauvin
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