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Under the hood with Garbage First Deep Dive JDK 7 JDK 7 Shaped and translucent sun.com : JDK 7 Release Key Features java.net: JDK 7 Coin Final List

Update: it looks like Update 16 has now quickly been released. Java SE 6 Update 15 has been released Release note mentions 34 fixes. Release Notes H online news about Java 6 Update 15 Also Java 5.0 Update 20: Java 5 downloads

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

Just a reminder that the excellent Devoxx 2008 material is online. Includes videos from the Java genius Joshua Bloch: Devoxx home page currently has Joshua Bloch talk linked Parleys: all the videos/talks Lots of slides Lots more slides This conference looks excellent.

Java SE 6 Update 13 released Java 5.0 Update 18 released Planetarium: JDK and JRE watch

An interesting small article about JDK 7. The New IO stuff looks incredibly good. Planetarium: JDK 7: what to expect and when Another good JDK 7 link

The SQE NetBeans plugin seems excellent. It provides Code defect analysis tools such as : FindBugs PMD CheckStyle Lint4J and metrics & dependency analysis tool. It's is easy to add to NetBeans 6.5.1. I just added their link : https://sqe.dev.java.net/updatecenters/sqe/updates.xml to my update centre and then was able to choose the SQE options to download. FindBugs & PMD are both excellent at finding potential issues with your Java code.