Picks of the Week:

• Stephen — Java 7 - Short declarations.
• Berin — To do a Java ActiveRecord or Not… Decisions.
• Rob — Pick Your Java Poison: XML or Annotations?
• Alex — Removing setters (actually replacing them).
• Alex — My thoughts on the Java 7 property debate.
• Scott — On Look and Feels.
• Lorenzo — Why is javaspaces technology not as successful as it should be?
• Brandon — Scripting makes Java fun again, and maybe relevant again, too.
• Laurent — Annotations suck a lot and I'm switching back to JUnit 3.8.1.
• John — Give me any reason at all to use Mac OS X for Java development.

Tip of the Week:

Singletons and lazy loading

Tutorial of the Week:

SQL Simplicity for Java Value Mapping

Notable Software Releases:

The Truth is Out There…
Erik C. Thauvin
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