The guys of JavaRanch.com try to accomplish just that:

Grab your marshmallows and a stick and gather ’round the campfire for some Java stories. The Ranch writers won’t be winnin’ any literary prizes, that’s fer sure. But ya still might learn a thing or two.

I find this approach very refreshing and I’m sure some of you dealing with certain more technical description will enjoy the casual written, funny illustrated yet informing stories.

So hop on your horse, ride on over to the ranch and give it a read @
JavaRanch Campfire – Getting in Touch with your Inner Class.

According to him, Sun will continue the work on Swing and even more try to ease the development and enhance the deployment and runtime performance.

The whole post sounds very convincing that Sun hasn’t given up and that Swing will become more and more useful (again).

Danny also mentioned new components in JDK7 like the DatePicker and CSS styling – both are very attractive to me and I can’t wait to use them in the next project.

Read the whole post at: Swing and JDK 7 : The Planetarium.

It is useable in any servlet container but – as you might already expected – it is built to work tighter with JBoss Application Server.

The features list provided on the front page shows very interesting details about the project. It supports various techniques and connection types. It looks worth checking out for the next java based project.

Do you have any experience with RESTEasy? What’s your favorite for implementing web services? Any comments on the featured project?

Links:

• jboss.org: RESTEasy
• Bill Burke’s blog about REST