Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
JavaTools Newsletter is a collection of news and articles on Java projects being developed in by the open source community.
The current edition has a list of news updates for a large number of open source projects, plus in addition a short article on how to use Maven 2.0 to create your project website.
If you’re still coming up to speed on EJB3.0 or at least planning to, InfoQ have a neat glossary of terms that are used in connection with EJB3.0 and related technologies.
Check here for their article.
If you couldn’t make it to JavaOne this year, or even if you did and want to catch up on some of the sessions that you didn’t have time to attend or had schedule conflicts with, Sun now has all the PDFs for the presentation slides available for download. In addition they also have multimedia sessions with slides and audio for the majority of the sessions.
Check the link here for download info.
Microsoft are planning on releasing classic arcade games for the XBox for download via the XBox Live service. They will be releasing 1 game a week each Wednesday, and each game download will be from $5 – $10.
This is a neat idea, but seems like a steep price to pay for games that are already available via arcade game collections (they are on the PS anyway, I’m not sure about XBox).
Meanwhile we’re still waiting for the PSOne backcatalog to become available for download for the PSP, which was announced a few months back