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An excellent Java troubleshooting article from Sun Chuk-Munn Lee of Sun Microsystems Troubleshoots Java SE 6 Deployment

It seems that the font rendering engine has changed. It looks very good and apparently uses the native ClearType on Windows now instead of it's own rendering (which was excellent). The only bad thing for me, is that it looks blurred now. When running jedit or NetBeans with Windows Look and Feel, the font is the same as native apps but it's subtly different. They look as good as native Windows fonts, but on my LCD they look almost like Bold has been turned on. Windows apps font seem thin compared to the heavier Java rendered font.

It looks like the eagerly anticipated Java 6 Update N has been released JDK 6 Update 10 Sun Java Java SE 6 notes Updates include: Next Generation Java Plug-in New Direct3D Accelerated Rendering Pipeline Update to JavaDB Lots of bug fixes Update: more news coverage ThePlanetarium: Update 10 special event Sun Press Room Update: http://cld.blog-city.com/java_se_6_update_10_is_here.htm

Brilliant Swing links update again. The GUIs shown here are wonderful. Swing links of the Week: September 28 Previous wonderful GUI : SWT, Eclipse 4 and custom skinning

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.