I was disappointed that I was not able to attend JavaOne 2013, but was happy to see numerous useful posts covering this annual conference.

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The idea for my last blog post (my ten favorite online resources for advanced Java developers), was inspired by the Xiaoran Wang post Top 10 Websites for Advanced Level Java Developers.

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The ProgramCreek.com blog has recently featured two interesting posts targeted at "advanced" Java developers: Top 10 Books For Advanced Level Java Developers and Top 10 Websites for Advanced Level Java Developers. These posts highlight resources that are especially beneficial to more experienced Java developers.

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With JavaOne 2013 less than two weeks away, it's not surprising that there have been some announcements in recent days regarding JDK 8. In this post, I briefly look at these JDK 8 announcements.

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JBoss Weld CDI for Java Platform is a relatively short book (approximately 100 "main" pages) that introduces JBoss Weld, which it describes as "the open source reference implementation" of Java Contexts and Dependency Injection.

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In my last post, I wrote about hints provided in NetBeans 7.4 beta that improve a developer's ability to avoid nasty runtime issues with Java exception handling.

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There are numerous examples of how Java exception handling can be more difficult than it might first appear and Josh Bloch devoted an entire chapter of Effective Java (both editions) to exception handling.

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I was happy to accept Packt Publishing's invitation to review the recently released (July 2013) book TestNG Beginner's Guide because I welcomed the opportunity to learn more about TestNG. I have read about and played a little bit with TestNG before, but the vast majority of my Java unit testing experience has been with JUnit.

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The following is a contributed article from Jon Jarboe of Coverity

Is Java Riskier than C?
Jon Jarboe
Senior Technical Manager, Coverity

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Every once in a while, I'm reminded of a few subtle nuances of Ant properties that can, when forgotten, lead to confusion when dealing with Ant.

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I recently thought about writing a Groovy script to search JARs for a specific string, but decided to first look for an alternative rather than writing a script. The alternative needed to be easy to use, freely available, and not bogged down with a load of dependencies. I was glad I looked first, because the Linux-based approach provided by "jan61" satisfied my need nicely.

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There are some minor potential dangers associated with Groovy's def keyword. The Groovy style and language feature guidelines for Java developers provides some warnings about use of def.

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When posting source code to my blog, I often need to convert less than signs (<), and greater than signs (>) to their respective entity references so that they are not confused as HTML tags when the browser renders the output. I have often done this using quick search-and-replace syntax like %s/</</>/>/g with vim or Perl.

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This brief blog post provides another Groovy script that provides simple differencing of two JAR (or WAR or EAR) files and their MANIFEST.MF files.

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My last post discussed comparing the high-level contents of two JAR files using a Groovy script and a 2011 post covered displaying a particular JAR file's manifest file. This post illustrates the combination of those two ideas with an example of comparing the Manifest files of two different JAR files.

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