Asynchronous and Synchronous: Much of the perceived performance problems with Swing can be addressed by working better with the Swing single threading model. Jonathan Simon writes that you need to "execute code in the appropriate thread" and take advantage of "asynchronous execution using SwingUtilities.invokeLater()." » Read more

JXTA:03Q4 [aka Timpani]: "The JXTA J2SE release team has committed to a quarterly release schedule. Releases are named after exotic and exciting cuisine." Do you smell what Project JXTA is cooking?!? — James Todd

A taste of Java: Everybody know java is a slang for coffe. But is it coffe the only JBeverage? Not really... — Felipe Leme

Converting between old and new collections
In John Zukowski's latest Core Java Tech tip he addresses Converting between old and new collections . A Vector is now treated as a List and a Hashtable as a Map. To convert an Array to a List you need to use the asList() method. John also shows you how to convert in the other direction from new to legacy collections.

Creating an Online Help System with javaHelp and DocBook
Austin King shows you how to use DocBook, XSL, and Saxon to transform XML into PDF, HTML, or JavaHelp. In the ONJava article Creating an Online Help System with javaHelp and DocBook King uses the "book" subset of DocBook to create the XML version of the help file. He then uses Saxon together with XSL Stylesheets to generate the JavaHelpfiles. The jhindexer application is called to create the data files for the default search engine.