Regarding Java

Reasons to like Java

• The Java Community Process
• Many open source projects
• Many platforms for execution
• Many vendors

Reasons to dislike Java

• Qualified developers can be difficult to find
• Potential complexity of development environment

Concerning Enterprise Software Development

• Effective Validation Frameworks
• Web Development
• Struts
• Unit Testing with StrutsTestCase and EasyMock
• Spring Time Savers
• Using Spring JDBC Templates
• Understanding Spring Transactions

Open Source Juggernauts

Group	URL
JBoss	http://www.jboss.org
Eclipse	http://www.eclipse.org
Spring	http://www.springframework.org
Hibernate	http://www.hibernate.org
Apache	http://www.apache.org
Sourceforge	http://www.sourceforge.net

Java and Cryptography

• Using the JCE

Java and Performance

• Know and love your RAM
• Java Garbage Collection References

Common Java Exceptions

• Fateful static initializers

Useful Java Tidbits

• toHexString() - convert a byte array to its hexadecimal string representation