Sun have produced a PDF tutorial doc on the new Generics language feature that will be included in 1.5.
The doc is available here
EJB3.0 spec heated discussion on TheServerSide.com
The EJB spec is obviously a hot topic – asking for feedback and comments for consideration for new features/changes for the EJB3.0 spec has ignited a massive flame war on TheServerSide.com between several key players in Enterprise Java world, especially key developers in various open source projects.
Check out the thread to catch up on the argumements between Gavin King (Hibernate), Marc Fleury (JBoss), Rod Johnson (Spring Framework)… and many more 🙂
EJB3.0 spec developers soliciting industry feedback and suggestions
Richard Monson-Haefel is one of the members of the EJB3.0 JSR220 working group and is currently requesting feedback for sugestions and feedback to be considered for the EJB3.0 spec.
Sun’s letter to Eclipse
On the eve of Eclipse becoming it’s own legal entity and IBM becoming less involved with the development of the tool platform, Sun published a letter to Eclipse on their website offering help and guidance.
The letter reads like a plea to become involved (now that IBM will not be so dominant within the group), but I guess Sun are genuinely concerned that the Eclipse group could splinter the Java platform, escpecially with concepts such as the SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) – a replacement for Swing and AWT components that is deliberately platform dependent (for performance and platform UI reasons) – something that Sun is also deliberately trying to avoid (to keep true the ‘write once run anywhere’ philosophy).