Erik's Pulse: 2003-09-08

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Erik's Pulse: 2003-09-08 by Erik C. Thauvin
	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.
A little shorter than usual this week since my last column was published only 4 days ago.
Norman: Friends don't let friends use singletons. Sheldon disagrees. Russ is down with Palm and Java. Sam pounders about Singletons and Static Classes. Werner looks at Serial Communications on Red Hat. Simon agrees, getter and setter methods are evil. Niel is disappointed with Enhydra's XML-RPC Implementation. Notable software releases: PircBot 1.2.4, JarBuilder 0.8, FreeBSD JDK 1.4.1, Jess 6.1p5, JRefactory 2.8.01, Jakarta Turbine Web App Framework 2.3, Java Serialization to XML 2 2.1, JXMLPad 1.9.3, Hibernate 2.1 beta 3 and Jakarta Cocoon 2.1.1.
Erik is director of technology at Imacination Software, where he has spent the better part of last year developing the jTalk E-Business Platform. He has close to 20 years of professional experience in software development. Erik also maintains a popular Java blog and can be found lurking in #mobitopia.

This story was published in the September 8, 2003 issue of the Java Developer's Journal Newsletter.