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yEd - Java™ Graph Editor yEd is a very powerful graph editor that is written entirely in the Java programming language BlueJ BlueJ: About BlueJ is an integrated Java environment specifically designed for introductory teaching. ImageJ Features An excellent Java image application : ImageJ

Learning Java 3rd Edition Amazon.com: Learning Java Amazon.co.uk: Learning Java Amazon.com: Effective Java Amazon.co.uk: Effective Java Joshua Bloch is a Java genius. A 2nd edition is out soon according to Amazon.com Recommendations (Updated for Java 5): Thinking in Java (4th Edition) Amazon.com: Java Puzzlers Amazon.com: Java Precisely, 2nd Edition Java Cookbook , Second Edition I have the first edition which is excellent, but the 2nd edition is updated for Java 5 so that's on the list to purchase. Head First Java , Second Edition Java Network Programming , Third Edition Head First Design Patterns Java 5.0 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook Filthy Rich Clients: Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop Java™ Applications Amazon.com: Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit Amazon.com: Java How to Program (7th Edition) Amazon.com: Java Concurrency in Practice

IBM developerworks Java section has a lot of good Java articles, here is a new one about JavaSE 6 performance monitoring. It's detailed and informative. IBM: Monitor and diagnose performance in Java SE 6

I keep listening to this wonderful podcast : Java News, Interviews and more about the Java programming language. I'm catching up with past episodes and listening to the past Java events that I missed the first time around. I'm up to episode #057 so far, it's wonderful. Very interesting and enlightening. JavaPosse About JavaPosse

The NetBeans 6.0 beta has been released. I gave it a quick test on Ubuntu and it seems wonderful so far. I loved the local history addition which was a feature I wanted from Eclipse. It seems to have a revamped editor and profiler is now included by default and improved. On Windows I have Eclipse Europa and NetBeans 5.5.1 installed. For non-GUI Java coding I think that Eclipse is better, the compiler warnings are superb and really helpful. But think about doing GUI work I think NetBeans has the edge, and now that 6.0 is going to have more Eclipse features that will help me switch. I very much look forward to the 6.0 final release. JavaLobby: NetBeans 6.0 Beta NetBeans roadmap

The excellent "Developing Games in Java" written by David Brackeen is covered here : Developing Games in Java book This page details the excellent book, plus has updates and details changes made in Java 5 and 6 and how they could affect Java gaming. He has written an extremely good Java applet game toolkit called PulpCore : http://www.interactivepulp.com/pulpcore/ http://www.pulpgames.net/ The games are fast & great to look at.

Here are some excellent Java related RSS feeds that I found recently : http://developers.sun.com/rss/java.xml http://www.cafeaulait.org/today.rss http://www.eclipse.org/eclipsenews.rss http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/news/dw_dwtp.rss http://www.javaworld.com/podcasts/jtech/index.xml http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/feed/7?format=rss2 http://feeds.feedburner.com/javaposse http://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/tjsn.rss

jDiskReport is an excellent disk utility. Visual very well designed and works very well also. jGoodies jEdit is an excellent Java text editor. jEdit jEdit - features SQuirreL SQL Client - a universal SQL client SQuirreL SQL client SQuirreL SQL client - screenshots FreeMind - free mind mapping in Java FreeMind FreeMind - screenshots

Filthy Rich Clients: An Interview With Chet Haase Java.sun.com writer Ed Ort interviews Sun client architect Chet Haase about what's new and cool for developing compelling desktop applications.

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.

It seems like the modern ones are really great & feature rich. I remember seeing people use VisualCafe, JBuilder and my favourite IDE VisualAge for Java. It seems like the most popular choices today are : IntelliJ from JetBrains - really popular with Java pros Eclipse - quite fast and uses native GUI toolkit SWT NetBeans - I'm trying this one out, version 5.5.1 seems great. I would still really like a VAJ return, it was a wonderful IDE, the built in version control system was excellent.

Java Precisely looks excellent. The link above has more details about the book and downloadable code. There is also a free PDF - Java Performance tips Java Precisely Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk