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Current Issue
Issue Title Author
April Google Collections Dan Lewis, Senior Software Engineer

Year 2008 Issues
Issue Title Author
March The Importance of Contextual Design in Reducing Project Costs and Increasing Customer Satisfaction Angella Derington, Software Engineer
February Using Automated Tests to Document Software Architectures Jerry Overton, Senior Software Engineer
January Writing Music in Java: Two Approaches Lance Finney, Senior Software Engineer

Year 2007 Issues
Issue Title Author
December Why Scala? Tim Dalton, Software Engineer
November Generating Parsers with ANTLR 3 Dean Wette, Principal Software Engineer
October Reintroducing Jini: An introduction to Jini 2.1 Ryan Withers, Senior Software Engineer
September Collaborative Fault Tolerance using JGroups Jerry Overton, Senior Software Engineer
August Migrating from JUnit 3 to JUnit 4: Nothing but Good News Charles A. Sharp, Senior Software Engineer
July Intro to JGoodies Validation Lance Finney, Senior Software Engineer
June JSR 181: a Java Simplification Request Michael Easter, Senior Software Engineer
May Dependency Injection with Guice Paul Jensen, Partner
April JRuby Mark Volkmann, Partner
March Introduction To Grails Jeff Brown, Principal Software Engineer
February Emma: After the Green Bar Michael Easter, Senior Software Engineer
January Embedding DSLs in Java using JRuby Mario Aquino, Principal Software Engineer

Year 2006 Issues
Issue Title Author
December Automated Builds Made Easy with Hudson Tom Wheeler, Senior Software Engineer
November Getting To Know Berkeley DB Java Edition Weiqi Gao, Principal Software Engineer
October Introducing the Google Web Toolkit Brad Busch, Software Engineer
September Discover the Elegant Simplicity of JSR 166 Nathan Tippy, Senior Software Engineer
August JSR—168 — The Portlet Specification Enrique Lara, Software Engineer and Consultant
July QuickFix/J Messages Brian Coyner, Senior Software Engineer
June Units and Measures with JScience Lance Finney, Senior Software Engineer
May RTSJ - The Real-Time Specification for Java Don Busch, Partner
April EJB3 Persistence Jumpstart Jeff Brown, Principal Software Engineer
March Introduction to the Java Speech API Nathan Tippy, Senior Software Engineer
February Scripting Support in Mustang Paul Jensen, Partner
January Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (SWIG) Mark Volkmann, Partner

Year 2005 Issues
Issue Title Author
December The Framework for Integrated Tests (Fit) Mario Aquino, Principal Software Engineer
November Create Proxies Dynamically Using CGLIB Library Jason Zhicheng Li, Senior Software Engineer
October Building A Complete NetBeans Platform Application Tom Wheeler, Senior Software Engineer
September Getting Started with the NetBeans Platform Tom Wheeler, Senior Software Engineer
August Mock Objects and Distributed Testing Brian Gilstrap, Principal Software Engineer
July Apache MyFaces Dan Troesser, Principal Software Engineer
June Introduction to JGoodies Binding Rob Smith, Principal Software Engineer
May JDIC Tray Icons Eric Burke, Principal Software Engineer
April Web Services with Java 2 Micro Edition Mark Balbes, Principal Software Engineer
March Intro to JGoodies Forms Lance Finney, Senior Software Engineer
February Monitoring and Management with J2SE 5.0 Weiqi Gao, Principal Software Engineer
January Developing Custom Swing Components With Test Driven Development Santosh Shanbhag, Senior Software Engineer

Year 2004 Issues
Issue Title Author
December Introduction to Apache JAMES Nathan Tippy, Senior Software Engineer
November REST Architectural Style Mark Volkmann, Partner
October Spring MVC Paul Jensen, Partner
September The Mobile Media API Mark Balbes, Principal Software Engineer
August Some Other New Features in Java 2 Standard Edition 1.5 Dean Wette, Principal Software Engineer
July Improve Java Apps on Windows with a Native Launcher Dan Lewis, Senior Software Engineer
June Improving Project Quality with PMD Tom Wheeler, Senior Software Engineer
May Introduction to Jakarta Tapestry Rob Smith, Principal Software Engineer
April RMI over IIOP with JacORB Don Busch, Partner
March Read And Write Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets Using Jakarta POI Santosh Shanbhag, Senior Software Engineer
February Groovy - Scripting for Java Mark Volkmann, Partner
January Introduction to XQuery Weiqi Gao, Principal Software Engineer

Year 2003 Issues
Issue Title Author
December An Introduction to Cryptography and the Java Cryptography Extension Brian R. Gilstrap, Principal Software Engineer
November A Simple Data Access Layer using Hibernate Mario Aquino, Principal Software Engineer
October Java Message Service (JMS) Dean Wette, Principal Software Engineer
September JSP 2.0 Dan Troesser, Principal Software Engineer
August An introduction to Java Server Faces Prithpal S. Bhogill, Senior Software Engineer
July Generics in Java Rob Smith, Principal Software Engineer
June Designing Testability with Mock Objects Mario Aquino, Principal Software Engineer
May Wireless Messaging with J2ME Mark Balbes, Ph.D., Principal Software Engineer
April JAXB: The integration of Java and XML Schema Paul Jensen, Partner
March An Introduction to using Jakarta Struts for Web Application Development Santosh Shanbhag, Senior Software Engineer
February Intercepting Method Invocations on POJOs using jAdvise Bob Lee, Software Engineer
January GCJ - The GNU Compiler for Java Weiqi Gao, Ph.D., Principal Software Engineer

Year 2002 Issues
Issue Title Author
December J2SE 1.4 New IO API Todd Stewart, Principal Software Engineer
November Tools for Java Coding Standards Mark Volkmann, Partner
October Java, XML and Databases Mario Aquino, Principal Software Engineer
September Script-Free Java Server Pages with the Standard Tag Library (JSTL) Dean Wette, Principal Software Engineer
August The Next Generation of Java 2 Micro Edition Mark Balbes, Ph.D., Principal Software Engineer
July Developing an Enterprise Security Model Using JAAS and JBoss Brian Coyner, Software Engineer
June An Introduction To Java Data Objects Jeff Brown, Principal Software Engineer
May Java Connector Architecture Paul Jensen, Partner
April J2SE 1.4 Assertion Facility Rob Smith, Software Engineer
March Object Resource Pooling Paul King, Senior Software Engineer
February Refactoring with IDEA Eric Burke, Principal Software Engineer
January CORBA and Java Don Busch, Partner

Year 2001 Issues
Issue Title Author
December Deploying Applications with Java Web Start Brad Shuler, Sr. Software Engineer
November Enabling the Wireless Enterprise with Java 2 Micro Edition Mark Balbes, Ph.D., Principal Software Engineer
October Regular Expressions in Java Chip Jones, Sr. Software Engineer
September J2SE 1.4 Preferences API Jeff Brown, Principal Software Engineer
August SOAP and Web Services Mark Volkmann, Partner
July Getting Up To Date With The JDBC API Jeff Brown, Principal Software Engineer
June The Java Logging API Brian Gilstrap, Principal Software Engineer
May Filters in the Servlet 2.3 API Dan Troesser, Principal Software Engineer
April Generating EntityBeans with XSL Templates Tim Burns, Sr. Software Engineer
March Scripting Languages for Java Weiqi Gao, Ph.D., Principal Software Engineer
February Java 2 Platform Security Exposed Dean Wette, Principal Software Engineer
January Java 2 Micro Edition - Java for Small and Embedded Systems Mark Balbes, Ph.D., Principal Software Engineer

Year 2000 Issues
Issue Title Author
November Ant - an open source, Java-based build tool Mark Volkmann, Partner
October Building Classes Dynamically with Java2 Jean-Cedric Desroshers, Software Engineer
September A JSP Custom Tag for XML+XSLT Eric Burke, Principal Software Engineer
August Java/XML-based Shopping Cart Mark Volkmann, Partner
July Current Trends in Java Web Development Eric Burke, Principal Software Engineer
June Collaborating with the Java Memory Manager Brian Gilstrap, Principal Software Engineer
May An Integral Part of Exception Handling: finally Paul King, Sr. Software Engineer
April Tips for creating thread-safe code (Avoiding Race Conditions) Eric Burke, Principal Software Engineer
March Remote Method Invocation Jeff Brown, Principal Software Engineer
February Inside the Java Virtual Machine Ernest Rider, Sr. Software Engineer
January Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Paul Jensen, Partner

Year 1999 Issues
Issue Title Author
December Accessing Relation Data with JDBC Weiqi Gao, Ph.D., Principal Software Engineer
November The Java Collections API Dean Wette, Principal Software Engineer
October Building User Interfaces with Swing Mark Balbes, Ph.D., Principal Software Engineer
September What are Java Server Pages? Chris Eddy, Sr. Software Engineer
August What is XML? Mark Volkmann, Partner
July What are Enterprise Java Beans? Brad Warren, Software Engineer
June What is a Servlet? Eric Burke, Principal Software Engineer
May Tooltips in AWT and Swing Mark Volkmann, Partner

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