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EDITOR'S NOTE
Java Gets Smaller

Dwight Deugo

JAVA BUZZ
Philip J. Gill
C# Strikes at Java; Product Avalanche at JavaOne; mimio Users get Collaboration Tool; Saqqara Offers Java-Based E-Commerce Software; Java and EJB to Drive App Server Market to $9 Billion by 2003; and more.

PRODUCT REVIEW
Top-Notch Help Authoring

RoboHELP Office 2000

Lowell Thomas
Creating a Help feature probably isn't the first thing you think of when you're developing an application, but chances are, you'll have to get to it eventually. RoboHELP is a powerful product and has a comprehensive environment to develop a wide range of Help systems.

REAL WORLD JAVA
Trading With Java
LiveTrade.com to offer turnkey, all-Java trading system to brokers/dealers

Philip J. Gill
The ASP market is one of the hottest markets around. LiveTrade.com has launched an ASP service that provides turnkey online trading applications for brokers/dealers.

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JAVA TO GO!
Use Object Pools to Sidestep Garbage

Jonathan Amsterdam
Most of the time, garbage collection is a wonderful thing. The only problem is that garbage collection takes time. Object pools let you sidestep the garbage collector and take storage management into your own hands.