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

An interesting small article about JDK 7. The New IO stuff looks incredibly good. Planetarium: JDK 7: what to expect and when Another good JDK 7 link

The SQE NetBeans plugin seems excellent. It provides Code defect analysis tools such as : FindBugs PMD CheckStyle Lint4J and metrics & dependency analysis tool. It's is easy to add to NetBeans 6.5.1. I just added their link : https://sqe.dev.java.net/updatecenters/sqe/updates.xml to my update centre and then was able to choose the SQE options to download. FindBugs & PMD are both excellent at finding potential issues with your Java code.

This article has a huge collection of links for those interested in Java programming. It mainly lists information for Java programming newcomers, but the links cover all levels from beginner to expert. IBM developerWorks article: New to Java programming

This caught me eye recently: a new release of the interesting java-gnome project : java-gnome 4.0.10 (5 Mar 2009) http://research.operationaldynamics.com/blogs/andrew/software/java-gnome/java-gnome-4.0.10-release.html