Erik has his finger on the pulse of the Java community. This column is his take on what is hot, and what the community is buzzing about.

• Bryan and Eric review the Gateway Java Symposium.
• Kevin offers a few Java Unit Testing Tips.
• Brian bares the truth behind Naked Objects.
• Jon is excited about various GUI prototyping tools for Eclipse.
• Matt found an impressive list of Java Server Faces Resources.
• Aaron opts for ResourceBundles.
• Matt wonders if Java is becoming a LanguageForSmartPeople, but Carlos and Oliver disagree.
• Bob looks at printing PDF files from Java on Windows.
• The Core Developers Network has Rickard, Matt, Cameron, Fred, Joey, Steven, Mike, Dominic, Werner, Anthony, Blaine, Jeff, Mike, Calvin and Alan talking up a storm.
• Dion, Carlos, Patrick, Matt and Mike nuke it up.
• Russ and Ara are miffed at MIDP.
• Alan unveils the new Java logo.
• Vincent is keeping a list of the JavaOne 2003 blogs.
• Olivier wants to raise your Checkstyle awareness.
• Notable software releases: JBookmarks, jEdit 4.2pre2, ANTLR plugin for Eclipse 1.0.3, NumericalChameleon 1.5.0, HttpClient 2.0 beta 1, Java+ Preprocessor 2.0, JIRA 2.1, JZlib 1.0.2, Java Weather Library, edit-on JavaBean SDK 1.0.34, textile4j 1.0, Castor 0.9.5, JPatch 0.2.1, OpenEJB 0.9.2. DocBook Doclet 0.43, Commons FileUpload 1.0 RC 1, Tapestry 3.0-beta-1a, Sun's Web Services Developer Pack 1.2, Coffee 1.0.0, and Hibernate 2.0.

Erik C. Thauvin is director of technology at Imacination Software, where he has spent the better part of last year creating and developing the jTalk E-Business Platform. He has close to 20 years of professional experience in hardware and software development, and maintains a lively Java blog.