Reflections in Tiger: There's been a lot of attention for Tiger's support for Generics, metadata, and other changes to the Java language. Other changes include a reworked Reflections API. » Read more

Colorado Software Summit: Software Summit Calls for Papers — Bill Dudney

TDD: Tension, Release, and Generalization: Test-driven development uses tension as one of its tools. — William C. Wake

Cooking with Java Servlets & JSP, Part 2
Bruce Perry adds two more tips in Cooking with Java Servlets & JSP, Part 2 . In this second set of excerpts from his book "Java Servlets & JSP Cookbook", he covers Accessing an EJB Using the WebLogic JNDI Tree and Getting Set Up with Amazon's Web Services API.

C++ vs. Java: Mutability
In his discussion of C++ vs. Java: Mutability , Manish Jethani writes that "one of C++'s features that I haven't yet learnt to live without in Java is the ability to have const references to objects, rendering the objects immutable through those references. In Java, either all instances of a class are immutable (e.g. java.lang.String), or none of them are immutable. Mutability of an object is determined by the design of its class and is in no way influenced by the way it is being referenced in the system. So all String objects in Java are immutable, whereas all ArrayLists are mutable."