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.
Eclipse 3.1 M5 released
Milestone 5 of the 3.1 development has been released, and includes improved support for Java 1.5 and includes improvements to SWT.
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.