RSS and Java: During his keynote at O'Reilly's Mac OS X conference, Andy Ihnatko described how he had written his own blogging software. Then it occurred to him that as new standards appeared that he wanted to take advantage of - he was the one that would have to implement these improvements. » Read more

Perspectives on Software Applications and their User Interfaces: A discussion on the Merits of user interfaces reflecting their underlying object model, and more.. — Eitan Suez

Defrosting Java GUI's: Discussion after my session at the Mac OS X conference sounds like a wish list for J2SE GUI development — Chris Adamson

Hunter on J2SE I/O
Jason Hunter is writing a series of articles on J2SE 1.4 for Enterprise Developers for the Oracle Technology Network. The first article is Reaching to the Core and shows "you the new channel metaphor introduced with New I/O. You've seen streams, you've seen writers ? now it's time to learn about channels."

Ask Tog: Security D'ohLTs
Bruce Tognazzi has the D'ohLT awards for "a person who screws up some product or service so badly that, when you attempt to use it, you end up slapping your head and yelling that famous homersimpsonian cry, 'D'oh!'" The latest Ask Tog is the Security D'ohLTs issue. As security measures increase, ordinary users can not remember all of their passwords and so they store the information in a variety of places. The result is that the increased security leaves your system less secure.