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Oracle finally targets Java non-payers – six years after plucking Sun http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/16/oracle_targets_java_users_non_compliance/

It's amazing to hear that Java is 20 years old already. If you used it and took a break and now want to get back into Java again, the following link could help as a learning refresher: JavaWorld: Learn Java from the ground up Java 20th anniversary #Java20 Update Your Skills for the 20 Years of Java

An interesting round up of JavaOne 2013, lots of interesting links included: JavaOne 2013 Vicariously

Java 5 Update 21 released - update independently of Java 6 - now that Java 5 has entered its End of Life Service, will we see any more updates? - 17 fixes in Update 21 - 26 fixes in Update 20 java.sun.com: Java 5 "Star Dust" demo for Trident A very nice looking demo for the Trident animation library. "Star Dust" demo for Trident library Recommended book : SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide (CX-310-065) I've been refocusing on Java 6 and started reading this book, it is excellent so far. Amazon UK link

Java.sun.com has some great articles and news stories at the moment. These include : NIO.2 JDK 7 info. NIO.2 does look great, it has some wonderful new features. A Java Developer's Quiz, Part 2 Developers insight series, part 3: The Process of Writing Code An interesting series of insights and interviews with brilliant Java developers. NetBeans 6.7 beta released

OpenJDK passes Java TCK Java is finally open and free On the evolution of the Java plugin Excellent article on Java 7 nio The Open Road: java.nio.file

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

Robocode 1.5.3 Game programming tool that teaches Java by letting you create Robots in Java code 5 Minutes: Putting a Memory Monitor in NetBeans IDE Ben Galbraith's Blog: Of Fonts and Java2D NetBeans 6.1 Milestone 1 available Pushing Pixels: Swing buzz: flying above the radar

NetBeans 6.0 making me a keyboard junkie Pushing Pixels: Swing links of the week Starting Java SE on (almost) raw iron - the Java OS IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 Adds Spring/Hibernate Support, Eclipse Interoperability, and Maven Integration JetBrains Releases IntelliJ IDEA 7

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

Java Podcast : News, Interviews and more about the Java programming language. I found this excellent podcast the other day. It's excellent and really detailed. I would have preferred OGG rather than the MP3 format it uses. JavaPosse Another interesting podcast I found recently is : Software Engineering Radio : podcast for professional software developers