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Posted by daniel on February 9, 2005 at 8:27 AM EST

The best things in life are (now) free

In Also in Java Today , the folks at JetBrains have announced the IntelliJ IDEA Open Source License . They are offering a " new initiative to the Open Source community: FREE license keys for our industry leading Java IDE, IntelliJ IDEA for developers of qualifying Open Source projects." You need to show that you are legitimate and active once a year to qualify.

IDEA continues to be my favorite IDE. It has kept up with Java and with various programming methodologies and continues to work with me and many times work ahead of me. I've worried that with NetBeans and Eclipse being free that IDEA would be pressured out, but they continue to innovate and developers buy enough copies to keep their development team busy. If you are working on a legit Open Source project and can benefit from IDEA, take a look at their offer. I do, however, urge you if your company can afford it, to pay for your copy so that we continue to support this product. Cool idea JetBrains. Thanks for supporting open source.

You don't want to put SQL queries directly in your Java code, because it's bad style and will be hard to maintain. But your DBA doesn't want you to run automatically-generated queries with Hibernate (or equivalent) because that forfeits the ability to create and use optimized queries. What do you do? Sunil Patil suggests that one alternative is to look to SQLMaps. In Object-Relational Mapping with SQLMaps, he shows how SQLMaps lets you set up queries in an separate XML file, where they can be hand-optimized to your liking, but remain isolated from your code.

Tim Boudreau shows you how to How to start writing apps for TiVO in NetBeans, in 5 minutes or less in today's Weblogs . " Ever since I moved back to the U.S., friends have been raving to me about the wonders of TiVO. I've seen it, but I'm not quite sold yet. But they have a Java API for writing applications to run on a TiVO. So I just had to download it and figure out how to use it in NetBeans. This blog is a quick tutorial. I might just have to get one after all."

Graham Hamilton reports on JavaOne Review Madness. " The JavaOne call for papers ended last week. Here are a few thoughts as we work through the review and talk selection process."

John Reynolds offers A cautionary LGPL tale. He reports, " Open Source software isn't 'cancer', but you must be cautious to prevent infections."

In Projects and Communities, the Java Tools community project SomnifugiJMS describes itself as Java Messaging Service (JMS) within a single JVM, useful (among other things) for isolating the AWT event-dispatch thread so GUI's stay lively instead of blocking on long-running tasks.

The Mac Java Community points out the article Using Oracle JDeveloper 10g on Mac OS X, which shows you how to use the latest version of the popular IDE, with a tutorial that displays database info in both a web application and Swing GUI.

YGuy returns with a follow up on his posting on render speed in today's Forums. "I must really say that I am impressed - it seems that a lot of annoying java2d bugs (some of them have been there since 1.2) have been fixed! I could identify 4 fixed issues just by playing with our application!"

Chet reminds you "The Call For Papers has ended, but now we need to select the best talks from the large list of great entries. Help us determine what you want to see this year! We've posted a survey here: http://jdl.sun.com/webapps/survey/display?survey_id=4745"

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