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Here is a complete listing of previous issues by date and topic:

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1999

October 21, 1999

Creating Image Thumbnails and Capturing Standard Output in a Log

October 5, 1999

Swing Document Locations File and Keymaps

September 23, 1999

Extracting Links from an HTML File and Sorting Arrays

September 7, 1999

Error Checking with JNI and Using JTextPane

August 26

Creating Round Swing Buttons and Formatting BigDecimal Numbers

Release — Java 2

August 9

Using Coordinate Transformations With the Java2D^TM API and Using List Collections Efficiently

Release — Java 2

July 13

Undoing Text Edits and Adding Security Features to Applications

Release — Java 2

June 15

File Choosers and Using the Graphics Environment Class

Release — Java 2

May 11

Custom Carets and Reference Objects

Release — Java 2

April 14

Cut, Copy, and Paste and Package Version Identification

Release — Java 2

March 17

Collators and Big Decimal

Release — Java 2

February 16

Converting Pathnames to URLs and Using Vector in the Collection Framework, and Reading/Writing Unicode Using I/O Stream Encodings

Release — Java 2

January 13

StringBuffer Editing and How Bootstrap Classes are Found, and Interning Strings

Release — Java 2

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1998

December 15

True/False Random Values with NextBoolean, Cross Compilation Using -Target, and Unicode Character Blocks

Release — JDK 1.1 & Java 2

November 17

Setting File Modification Times and Walking across File Systems

Release — Java 2

October 20

Improving I/O Performance and Jar File Manifests

Release — JDK 1.1 & Java 2

September 15

Synchronized Statements and Finally Clauses

Release — JDK 1.1

September 9

Debugging Applications

Release — Java 2

August 11

Filter Streams and Default Constructors

Release — JDK 1.1

July 22

String Tokenizing 2 and Division by Zero

Release — JDK 1.1

June 23

String Tokenizing 1 and Enumeration Interface

Release — JDK 1.1

May 21

Temporary Files and Using Resource Bundles

Release — JDK 1.1 & Java 2

April 21

Collections and Unpacking Zip Files

Release — JDK 1.1

March 16

Javadoc, Hashtable, and Definite Assignment

Release — JDK 1.1

February 17

Program Assertions and Serialization

Release — JDK 1.1

January 20

String and String Buffer, Javap and .class Files, and Followup to Tech Tips for Dec 16, 1997

Release — JDK 1.1

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1997

December 16

Performance and Reflection (Introspection)

Release — JDK 1.1

November 18

ScrollPane, Faster I/O and Class Literals

Release — JDK 1.1

October 21

Menu Shortcuts and Command Dispatching

Release — JDK 1.1

September 24

Printing and Global Variables

Release — JDK 1.1

September 3

JAR Files and Performance: Garbage Collection

Release — JDK 1.1