Valgrind 2.2.0: Memory Debugging and Profiling
For tracking down memory leaks and other performance issues, the ease and flexibility of Valgrind may make up for slow runtimes.

Review: Gluecode JOE
Gluecode's JOE is a set of open source projects tied together to make a coherent platform for developing Java applications. It promises all the benefits of open source with less of the headaches. In this month's review, Drew Falkman finds out whether JOE delivers.

SubArtic

SubArtic
SubArctic is not yet another AWT widget set. It is a complete, full- functioned, industrial strength toolkit designed to be used for all your user interface needs. SubArctic is based on 10 years oftoolkit research and is designed to offer the advanced interface techniques needed to go beyond static interfaces and simple collections of widgets.

A nice blast to the past of the pre Swing days...

Connecting Disparate Dots
Get your EJB's testable

JDBC RowSet Implementations Tutorial (PDF)
This tutorial explains how to use the standard JDBC RowSet implementations that are provided as part of J2SE 5.0. Get up to speed with each RowSet definition and benefit from improved scalability and robustness.

From the Editor: January 2005 - Security on the Go
Now that work is just a verb, not a place, are all your security assumptions wrong?

New Year's Resolution
Unleash Java's secret weapon

Project Looking Glass: Its Architecture and Sneak Preview of the API
Bring a richer user experience to the desktop and to applications, through 3D windowing and visualization capabilities. This article covers Project Looking Glass' main features and API, its basic organization, and the functionality of important classes.

JFace tip: How to add column headers to a TableViewer

Related to this post, anyone that feels they know the whole SWT Table, Tableviewer, Label/Content provider architecture backwards and forwards please email me or leave me a comment. I've been working with it for a few weeks now. I can't for the life of me see how anyone cooked this design up and said "this thing is great". I really don't think I'm Swing bias here as far as how the table architecture is constructed. I'd like someone experienced on the other side to debate with. Maybe they can make me see the light.

Eclipse JFace tip: How to add column headers to a TableViewer
So you've created a JFace TableViewer, via:

TableViewer tableViewer = new TableViewer(parent);

The scenario: You have already set up the label provider, the content provider and the (model) input. The label provider, which extends ITableLabelProvider returns values for two columns. The data is showing up nicely, but you don't see any APIs in TableViewer to set column headers.