Oracle passes its first test and proves it is up to the task of making sense of Sun's developer products and widens their developer universe.

If you are interested in Groovy (Java.Next in many minds) or Grails then you might be interested in two resources - GroovyMag and Grails Podcast. More.

If you are interested in embedded systems, smartcard technologies and solutions around them, then you should be interested in a new article which describes Java Card 3.0 and its new capabilities. More...

JDK and JRE 6 Update 18 is here. More...

I've taken on a new book, RESTful Java Web Services.

Here are eight changes in the conversation that I expect to see in 2010. These conversation changers will alter what we talked about in 2009. More...

The newest releases of Groovy and Grails are here. Check it out.

All the talks from the Java EE 6 & GlassFish v3 Virtual Conference are now available. More details ....

Great alternative to the usual Powerpoint/OpenOffice fare. This actually shows off what an RIA can do ... presentationwise. More...

Four big announcements - Java EE 6, GlassFish v3 Final, GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse and NetBeans 6.8 Final. More....

NetBeans 6.8 Final is now available. No more beta...no more release candidates. This is the released version and is available with support for Java EE 6. More....

NetBeans IDE 6.8 RC1 is now available.

If you missed it - there is a nice new NetBeans tutorial, Generating A JavaServer Faces 2.0 CRUD Application From A Database. In this tutorial, you use the NetBeans IDE to create a web application that is generated from and interacts with a back-en

Excellent video session on how to build visually compelling platform applications using NetBeans, NB Visual Library, Swing and wealth of graphics APIs. More...

Check out the latest NetBeans platform application - a SQLBrowser for Sybase Transact-SQL. More...

Why do companies like Northrop Grumman and Boeing build on the NetBeans Platform ? It's a good question and there are many aspects to the answer. One is that it is 100% pure Java RCP. Second is quality. So where does this leave JDeveloper. More...

Two very cool tutorials - one allowing you to create NetBeans (Platform) Wizards and the second showing you how to quickly create a 3D application based on NASA's WorldWind project. More...

Check out the interview with Danny Coward, Chief Architect for Client Software at Sun on JDK 7. Video link.

What if NetBeans could run Eclipse modules in addition to NetBeans modules ? There is a new video showing just how to do that and demonstrating Eclipse OSGI modules running within a NetBeans app. There is bi-directional information sharing. More....

Nice new webinar on Java EE 6 you may be interested. Also, another webinar is available if you are a Tomcat user - the GlassFish team have an introductory for you. Two more - Overview and Migration centered around GlassFish. More...