Erik's Pulse: 2004-01-26
by Erik C. Thauvin |
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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. |
- Juan pins Ant vs. Maven.
- Matt reviews Java Open Source Programming.
- Phillipe comes to the defense of DbUnit.
- Keith compares LinkedList vs. ArrayList and then clarifies.
- Bill says farewell and thanks to JavaWorld.
- Cédric and Cameron delve into Trace wizardry.
- Brian wonders if IDEA 4.0 is worth the money.
- Bob makes Mock Objects easy. Simon concurs. Matt shmocks Mocks.
- Tutorial of the week: Migrate your Swing applications to SWT.
- Notable software releases: JCache Open Source 1.0a5, Eclipse RSS Reader 1.1.0, JSOS 3.65, Faces Console 1.0 Beta 2, jZonic-cache 1.1, JSch 0.1.13, SnipSnap 0.5.1, WebProxyBOT 1.1, DbUnit 2.0, Groovy 1.0 beta 3, JIRA Plugin 0.1.3 for IntelliJ IDEA, JAD decompiler plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, JavaDOCHelper 1.5, Useful Java Application Components 0.9.5, JGoodies Forms 1.0.3, Quartz 1.3.1, OSCore 2.2.2, JSwat 2.20, Blojsom 2.09, jTDS 0.6 and Jarkarta's Commons Collections 3.0.
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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. |