XML Made Easy with XOM

It's amazing how easy it is to create a complex XML document with XOM! This tutorial will lead you through reproducing a sample XML Doc through the XOM API.

Book Excerpt: JavaFX in Action (Early Access Edition)

This hands-on tutorial introduces and explores JavaFX through numerous bite-sized projects. Get a solid grounding in the JavaFX syntax and related APIs by learning how to apply the key features of the JavaFX platform.

The Anatomy Of A Groovy Builder

Find out how this new JVM language improves developer productivity and makes code easier to read.

Identity Management Made Easy with OpenSSO

Sun's open-source identity services initiative aims to provide an extensible foundation for an identity services infrastructure in the public domain, facilitating single sign-on (SSO) and cross-domain single sign-on (CDSSO) for web applications, federation capabilities, and secure Web services. Find out how it measures up.

Roving Eyes

Roving Eyes are superimposed on an image specified in an applet param. The eyes follow the mouse around the page, even beyond the borders of the applet (thanks to some simple JavaScript included in the example).

NEW: GPS/J

GPS/J is a console for all Bluetooth-enabled GPS receivers. Now with 20000 European towns and cities.

NEW: ClockApplet

This simple component allows you to show the correct local time in a specified time zone for your Web page. The applet is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v1.0.

UPDATED: Moving Fractal Tree

The latest version of this mathematical fractal tree corrects a bug that made it disappear from screen when it was dragged it with certain mouses.

Good Old Starfield

A retro, 3D animation with a little rotation. Supported by Java 1.3.

Apple Issues Java Updates
September 29, 2008 --
Apple has issued updates for the Java components of its two most recent OS X releases. (iTNews Australia)

Yakov Fain's Java Blog: "Cultural Differences in Outsourcing"
September 19, 2008 --
This is not about which country has better programmers. What cultural issues did you experience with the offshore country you've dealt with? (Java Developer's Journal)

Interview: The Making Of Griffon
September 29, 2008 --
Griffon, the Groovy framework for Swing developers, was released a few weeks ago. Promising a consistent source structure for Swing applications, as Grails has done for the web, it also potentially provides an alternative application framework to those provided by Spring RCP, Eclipse RCP, and the NetBeans Platform. (Javalobby)

The Great GWT Roundup
September 26, 2008 --
Over the past two months the web builder zone, thanks to Manning Publishing, has been publishing a comprehensive series on GWT. (Javalobby)

Oracle Focuses on Grid, Developer Tools
September 23, 2008 --
At OpenWorld, the database giant debuts updates and new offerings described as making deployment and development easier and more efficient. (internetnews.com)

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