Java 2D Trickery   29 Sep 2006 13:16 GMT
Chris Campbell, a Java 2D engineer at Sun Microsystems, shares his tips and tricks for creating soft clip, light, and shadow effects using 2D APIs.
Source: Sun

Meet Shannon Hickey, Technical Lead for the Swing Toolkit Team at Sun Microsystems   29 Sep 2006 13:16 GMT
Shannon Hickey, technical lead for the Swing toolkit team at Sun Microsystems, explores his passion for drag and drop, his hopes for a compatibility API, and his creative process as a developer.
Source: Sun

Getting Started With the NetBeans IDE 5.0 BlueJ Edition   29 Sep 2006 13:16 GMT
This article gets you started using the NetBeans IDE 5.0 BlueJ Edition. You'll learn how to load and edit existing projects, and then you'll create a new project and use drag-and-drop features to create a graphical user interface (GUI).
Source: Sun

Writing Performant EJB Beans in the Java EE 5 Platform (EJB 3.0) Using Annotations   29 Sep 2006 13:16 GMT
The Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0 specification vastly improves the simplicity of programming EJB beans and increases your productivity as a developer. This article shows you how to get the best performance out of the new EJB 3.0 programming model.
Source: Sun

U.S. Daylight Saving Time Changes in 2007   29 Sep 2006 13:16 GMT
Daylight Savings Time changes in 2007 will affect Java applications in the United States. Updated Java Runtime Environments contain updated rules to report correct time.
Source: Sun

JUnit Testing Using Java ME JUnit Frameworks   28 Sep 2006 21:02 GMT
Just because Java Micro Edition lacks reflective capabilities doesn't mean Java Micro Edition developers miss out on the advantages of JUnit styled testing. JUnit-styled frameworks and tools can still improve ME application quality.
Source: DevX

Jini Beyond the Choir   28 Sep 2006 04:00 GMT
In a video recreation of his presentation from the 10th Jini Community Meeting, Daniel Steinberg looks at the current state of Jini adoption and asks the questions of what the technology does that is of interest to developers and end users, and how to get that message out more successfully.
Source: Java.net

Tapestry: A Component-Centric Framework   27 Sep 2006 04:00 GMT
Tapestry offers an open source framework for rapid development of web applications using Java. It offers high performance, good code re-use, line-precise error reporting, and more. Hemangini Kappla offers an introduction to this widely used framework.
Source: O'Reilly

Eclipse Callisto Project Profile: Web Tools Platform   27 Sep 2006 02:40 GMT
The Web Tools Platform (WTP) is a powerful set of Eclipse add-ons that make Web application development with Eclipse easier and faster. Take a look under the hood and see how it can help you.
Source: DevX

Using the Logger to Trace JDBC Driver Managers and Drivers   26 Sep 2006 22:31 GMT
Using java.util.Logger as your logging/tracing tool allows you to take advantage of the Logging framework.
Source: DevX