There are some common things that are useful to know in many day-to-day Java development activities. It is especially helpful for someone new to Java development to know where to find this information, but I have found bookmarking these sources to be useful even as I have gained experience developing Java applications. Because one of the primary purposes for me writing a blog is to provide myself with an easy way to find things I am looking for, I am using this blog posting to collect some of these sources of information that I frequently use for Java development in one place.

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UPDATE (9 March 2009): This posting has been referenced and quoted in the CNN Entertainment article You Talkin' to Me? Film Quotes Stir Passion.

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As the Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group (RMOUG) Training Days 2009 was wrapping up, I couldn’t help but think about this event that the RMOUG volunteers pull off each year. That thought naturally led to thoughts of other users groups that I have benefited from and to a renewed appreciation for the volunteers that make these user groups successful.

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My article Java EE and Flex: A compelling combination, Part 2 was published on JavaWorld last week. In that article, I briefly discussed some of the extra features that BlazeDS adds to HTTPService beyond what is support with Flex's HTTPService out of the box without BlazeDS.

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One of the advantages of writing a blog post or an article is that the author has an opportunity to think about what he or she writes before publishing it. Presenting at a conference is always more risky because one might have a momentary memory lapse or gap in judgment and say something he or she will later regret. While this can happen in writing, there are usually a few more guards (such as a in a blog posting) to many guards (such as in peer-reviewed writing).

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I have written and blogged previously about some of my favorite Java SE 6 features such as the Deque, [Sun's] inclusion of VisualVM, [Sun's] Java HTTP Server,

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Gavin Parish's current blog posting Maude, the developers are infighting again... made me smile for two reasons. First, what he said about developers and what is discussed about developers in the referenced link (Brian 'Bex' Huff's Why Do So Many Developers Love Bafflingly Complex Code?) is often true.

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Java properties have been a staple of Java development for many years. Even today, Java properties are used in popular frameworks and tools such as the Spring Framework and Ant.

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Java 1.4 introduced so many highly useful features that many projects were slow to migrate to J2SE 5 or Java SE 6.

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When it comes to comparing software development communities, it turns out that size does matter. When comparing two programming languages, most of us focus on things like syntactical differences, supported paradigms (such as object-oriented programming), deployment issues, performance, and many other factors.

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My last blog post of 2008 covered Useful Online Java Developer Resources. That posting focused on resources for both learning new things and for finding solutions to specific problems.

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A relatively infrequently encountered nuance of Flex 3's MXML/ActionScript's HTTPService that one may run into occurs when the HTTPService.method public property is set to "

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I previously blogged about using RESTClient with the Sun JVM-provided HTTP Server.

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In my first blog post of 2009, I covered a simple example of applying BlazeDS's object remoting capabilities to associate a Flex client with a Java EE server.

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With the current economic slowdown affecting the software development industry, it is likely that developers' interest in technical certifications may increase. Many of us in the software development industry have probably wondered at one time or another about the value of earning a technical certification and if the benefits of such a certification would be worth the effort and cost involved.

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