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Unfinished business: Java is a 20-year-old grown-up with bright prospects ahead

InfoWorld has a great article reflecting on the importance of Java: InfoWorld: Java at 20: How it changed programming forever

An interesting survey about Java development tools and technologies... Java Tools and Technologies Landscape for 2014

http://semiaccurate.com/2013/11/11/amd-charts-path-java-gpu/

infoq presentation:  Building Your Own Java, Part 2 Apache Wicket 6 Released With Integrated jQuery Support infoq presentation: Transforming a 15 Year Old Model-driven Application from C++ to Java infoq: Innovation: What Every Developer Absolutely Needs to Know IBM developerWorks A Java actor library for parallel execution Deploying into the cloud with the IBM Application Pattern for Java Functional thinking: Tons of transformations

Garbage Collectors Available In JDK 1.7.0_04 http://www.fasterj.com/articles/oraclecollectors1.shtml

Here is an excellent article about Java memory usage From Java code to Java heap: Understanding and optimizing your application's memory usage ibm developerworks article

Java SE 6 Update 13 released Java 5.0 Update 18 released Planetarium: JDK and JRE watch

Brilliant Swing links update again. The GUIs shown here are wonderful. Swing links of the Week: September 28 Previous wonderful GUI : SWT, Eclipse 4 and custom skinning

Swing Links of the week September 7 NetBeans - World Tour Joshua Marinacci's Blog - A Better Applet Experience, Part 2: Poster Frames VisualVM 1.0.1

RegDeveloper has an article about Java misconceptions : RegDeveloper: Java Performance Myths

An old article from 2004, but another look at the Java 5.0 language features and comments about them. TheServerSide.com: JDK 5 in Practice by Cedric Beust

Bruce Eckel writes about Java possibly being a dead end? Java: Evolutionary Dead End I don't agree, but he makes some interesting observations about the recent complexity of Java since the changes made at 5.0. His comment : If Java is to be saved at all, it needs to become like C; a workhorse that you can rely upon. In fact, any future changes to the language need to be things that simplify and clarify the language and its use (say, fixing the classpath problem), and flesh out (for example) incomplete libraries that have languished (like JMF). It would be great to simplify, and flesh out the libraries but I don't believe Java is in any danger of dying. Another article : On Closures mentions that generics were a disaster as it made Java much harder to learn.

Building a Java applet-based game -- why don't we see more of them? Chet Haase's Blog : Move It ! - Java Timing Framework Dummy’s guide to drawing raw images in Java 2D Playing nice with the GNOME desktop Pushing Pixels Blog

Try the new Direct3D 9-based Java2D pipeline in 6uN EA "This build contains the new Direct3D 9-based Java2D pipeline, which is enabled by default on Windows platform. It is very similar to the OpenGL pipeline (in fact they share a lot of code)" Very exciting, Java2D performance is going to get another boost.

Becoming a Better Programmer: A Conversation With Java Champion Heinz Kabutz A very interesting interview with a Java Champion Heinz Kabutz.

1. Improve Application Performance With SwingWorker in Java SE 6 2. New and Updated Desktop Features in Java SE 6, Part 1 3. New and Updated Desktop Features in Java SE 6, Part 2 All 3 are excellent and very detailed. I've bookmarked them and will study them soon. I'm still reacquainting myself with Java and Java 5 specifically, it added a lot of new features.