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http://www.drjava.org/ Dr.Java is an interesting little IDE that helps newcomers develop Java code. Although aimed at newcomers, it seems to have lots of advanced features. It could be a useful alternative to the larger IDEs like Eclipse and NetBeans. I found it useful to create small projects and play around with compiling and easily interacting with Java code, without the hassle of creating a large project in a full featured IDE.

Some great articles here : artima: Java going bigger, bigger, bigger dzone: Sun's Open Source Java Right Around the Corner... doh! artima: next generation Applets artima: Oracle Releases Berkeley DB Java 3.3 Eclipse: Memory Analyzer News ZDNet UK: Sun: Java to be 100 percent open by year's end

LWJGL 2.0 "Almost there! - LWJGL 2.0 Release Candidate 1 is ready for consumption!" Lightweight Java Gaming Library v2.0 release candidate LWJGL Release Candidate

HP have recently updated their JDK to : JDK/JRE 5.0.x Downloads: » Version 5.0.12 – April 2008 HP Java

It seems that the PDFs and some videos are now online, that's excellent, especially to those of us would love to attend one day but have never been, i.e. me :-) JavaOne 2008 online JavaLobby: My top 5 sessions of JavaONE 2008