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Jan Gray (Microsoft): Writing Faster Managed Code: Know What Things Cost

Tim Bray: Yooster, v0.1: « The design goals are correct Unicode semantics, support for as much of the Java String API as reasonable, and support for the familiar, efficient null-terminated byte array machinery from C. »

IBM developerWorks: Grady Booch polishes his crystal ball

Summary of agile software development methods

The GUI Toolkit, Framework Page “User interfaces occupy an important part of software development. This page provides a comprehensive reference on toolkits for building graphical user interfaces (GUIs), with emphasis on resources for Free Software (Open Source).”

App Dev Trends:
Comparing servlets and EJBs
The Right Java Tool for the Right Job

Amy Wohl: “So far, Sun has never been a smart and persistent seller of software. Scott has, in fact, been their own worst enemy, telling me on many occasions that software exists for the purpose of selling hardware. Maybe he’s now changed his mind. That would be a good first step.”  [Scripting News]

IBM developerWorks: Using JSSE for secure socket communication The JDK 1.4 Java Secure Socket Extension is easy enough to use — once you understand all the steps necessary for the initial setup and configuration. In this tutorial Greg Travis offers cookbook-style instructions for creating and installing JSSE encryption keys in a client/server application environment. Upon completion of this tutorial, you will know how to easily convert any existing client/server application to use encryption, as well as how to create a secure application from scratch.

IBM developerWorks: Data binding with Castor XML data binding for Java is a powerful alternative to XML document models for applications concerned mainly with the data content of documents. In this article, enterprise Java expert Dennis Sosnoski introduces data binding and discusses what makes it so appealing. He then shows readers how to handle increasingly complex documents using the open source Castor framework for Java data binding.

IBM DeveloperWorks: CVS for the developer or amateur : tutorial, can be read online (web) or offline (PDF). About two hours in length.