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Top 10 in 2008

1. Hello, OSGi: Bundles for beginners
2. Eclipse or NetBeans? IDEs compared
3. Is Tomcat enterprise ready?
4. IBATIS, Hibernate, and JPA: Which is right for you?
5. Merging and branching in Subversion 1.5
6. Understanding the Java Persistence API
7. Four harmful Java idioms, and how to fix them
8. Asynchronous HTTP and Comet architectures
9. Introducing Hibernate Search
10. Open source Java projects: Java Native Access

5 popular archives:

1. Introduction to Java threads (1996)
2. Put JSF to work (2004)
3. The Maven 2 POM demystified (2006)
4. Get started with Hibernate (2004)
5. Acegi security in one hour (2007)

All selections are based on page views.

Best of 2008: A developer's list

JW blogger Dustin Marx names his top 10 technology events of 2008. Highlights include updates to Java SE 6, runtime support in OpenLaszlo 4.2, and the clash of the titans that occurred early in the year, when Sun acquired MySQL on the same day that Oracle announced its acquisition of BEA. No two lists are alike and it's not too late: What were your top 10 for 2008?

Also see:

• 2008: Year of the Java Persistence API (JW Blogs)
• Dumb and dumber: Tech's big goofs (CIO.com)
• Here comes 2009: Bold prophesies from IT prognosticators (Network World)

public Cursor createCustomCursor(Image cursor, Point hotSpot, String name)
            throws IndexOutOfBoundsException

        Toolkit tk = panel.getToolkit();

    Cursor cursor = tk.createCustomCursor(img, hotSpot, name);

     panel.setCursor(cursor);

import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
public class CursorApplet extends Applet {
    public void init() {
        //load the image with the Media Tracker
        MediaTracker tracker = new MediaTracker(this);
        Image cursor = getImage(getCodeBase(), "music_note.gif");
        tracker.addImage(cursor, 0);
        try {
            tracker.waitForID(0);
        } catch (InterruptedException ie) {
            ie.printStackTrace();
        }
        Cursor cr = null;
        //get the toolkit for this environment
        Toolkit tk = getToolkit();
        try
            //this is the x,y coordinates of the image which
            //will actually do the "clicking"
            Point hotSpot = new Point(1, 1);
            //create the custom cursor
            cr = tk.createCustomCursor(cursor, hotSpot, "music_note");
        } catch (IndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        //set the cursor for this applet component
        setCursor(cr);
    }
}