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Cay Horstmann's Blog: Java One Day 4 "The keynote ended with some big science: JMars and the use of Java at CERN. When Gosling visited a control room at CERN that was filled with monitors, he asked whether they had any Swing apps. Well, all of them were Swing apps. "

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

Unit testing is extremely useful. I'm working through this excellent guide : Pragmatic Programmer: Unit Testing in Java with junit I have yet to find any good websites for junit, but the book is great. I've had a lot of success in some small projects, using NetBeans 6.1 to generate empty tests for each class member. Then you go and fill them in. It's helping me to refresh my memory about the code and great to think of new ways to test the code and new ways to write the code.

I've found these so far, I'd like to find more. It's always so useful to read and follow an interesting thread on Java programming, you learn from the discussion and the examples given. Java.net forums Sun Forums TheServerSide discussions BrainJava JavaRanch: Big Moose Saloon JavaLobby.org Update: Artima: Java Answers Forum JavaGaming.org

The amazing looking VisualVM is released. Artima: Sun Releases JDK 6 Update 7 with VisualVM VisualVM site inquirer: A look at Java's new VisualVM

Sun Java downloads * JDK and JRE 6 Update 7 * JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 16 * SDK and JRE 1.4.2_18

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