The excellent book, Mastering Enterprise Java Beans, 3rd ed, has just been published and is available for free download as a PDF from www.theserverside.com website.
Sun Java Tutorial updates
Sun’s online Java Tutorial as been updated this month, the first time its been updated for almost a year.
According to the updated histroy, some sections have been updated to bring them in line with J2SE 5.0 changes, although I couldn’t see any tutorial sections specifically on 5.0 new language features.
David Flanagan summarizes Java 6.0 features
David Flanagan (author of the great Java in a Nutshell books), summarizes on his blog the key features from JSR270 which brings together all the new features and changes for Java 6.0 ‘Mustang’.
The main key themes carrying over from 5.0 include ease of development changes, but nothing as major as the language changes in 5.0.
Microsoft reverse decision regarding no more IE releases
Microsoft have reversed their decision to not release any more versions of separate from Windows, and have announced they are planning on releasing beta versions of IE 7.0 this summer.
Previously Microsoft stated that the only future releases of IE would be bundled and presumably integrated into future releases of Windows, such as Longhorn, which may be released next year (2006).
One can only guess that they are feeling pressured to keep up the maintenance and security updates, and are also feeling pressure from the widespread adoption of Mozilla Firefox.