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John Rose: The Golden Spike
Sun's John Rose summarizes JavaOne 2008 developments in his wide-ranging blog The Golden Spike: "In the Java cosmos we can reckon time in terms of JavaOne conferences. For programming languages on the JVM, the just-finished epoch has seen much progress, and the next epoch looks even better. Here is some of the progress that I am excited about, after bouncing around at JavaOne."

JavaOne: Taking mobile application development out of the niche
In the interview JavaOne: Taking mobile application development out of the niche, Java and mobility enthusiast and visionary C. Enrique Ortiz gives his thoughts on why mobile application development is still a niche activity for developers, and discusses the hot topics about mobility at JavaOne.

Demo of New JavaScript Editor in NetBeans IDE 6.1
NetBeans IDE 6.1 contains a completely new JavaScript editor which provides many advanced editing capabilities such as intelligent code completion, mark occurences, instant rename, on-fly analysis of JavaScript libraries, support for many Ajax frameworks and more. Watch the screencast Guided Video Tour of NetBeans IDE 6.0 and 6.1 to discover the new and exciting JavaScript-related features.

Weblogs

Too much fun...
I don't know how some people manage to blog so much. Yesterday was another huge blur. A big chunk was rehearsing for my keynote this morning. It's kinda easy for me because it's mostly demos, and they're all wickedly cool. — James Gosling

JavaOne - Hits and misses
This year's JavaOne was a not to be missed event. Here are my views on how the conference has changed. — Calvin Austin

Java One Day 4
Day 4 of Java One is over. Even without huge announcements or great surprises, it was a great conference. Here are my impressions from the cool stuff keynote and my takeaway what it all means. — Cay Horstmann

Forums

Re: Java -server
Also, there's work being done to merge the server and client jvms for Java7, to have a single vm which would benefit both client and server apps and hopefully won't cost as much as having two dlls combined and having user to choose. —

Re: "Must work with all J2ME phones and networks"
There's a really good podcast in the Mobile and Embedded community that discusses issues to do with developing 'off deck' applications and how to go about testing your apps as an independent developer. I can't remember exactly which episode it was, but it featured a panel discussion from the Mobile and Embedded Developer Days earlier in the year. Try have a look back in the http://mobileandembedded.org/ news entries for it. —

Hiding java exceptions from clients. (JAX-WS/SOAP)
I have a simple web service using jax-ws 2.1 on top of tomcat-6. When I have some kind of java exceptions (like database connection error, missing file, IO error) java throws an exception and pass it to the SOAP client. I'd like to hide my internal errors from the SOAP client and provide other generic exception that would just say something like "internal error" and nothing more. (but still have that exception details in my log files). I can wrap each web method I have with try/catch but I'm looking for a generic solution that would catch exceptions in all of the web methods I've got and also catch all kinds of exceptions. —