Picks of the Week:

• Alex — Java 7 Roundup (Apr 4th).
• Luanne — Hello World with standalone Java Persistence, Hibernate and HSQLDB.
• Dave — The Death of Apache Harmony.
• Tim — April Fool's Joke? Pure Servlets.
• Joe — Where Java EE goes horribly wrong.
• Michael — Sun Needs to Stop Ignoring KDE.
• Joe — Java 7 Idea: Extensible Strings.
• Rich — Do we Need Java EE in an OpenSource World?

Tip of the Week:

Cloning Java objects using serialization

Interviews of the Week:

The Java Compiler API

Notable Software Releases:

The Truth is Out There...
Erik C. Thauvin
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