TS-4817 The Java™ Platform Portlet Specification 2.0 (JSR 286) An excellent session on the features and uses cases for the new portlet spec. Well worth a look.
TS-6623 More Effective Java The slides highlight some of the new topics covered in the best selling book at JavaOne. No Java developer should be without it. Get yours today!
TS-6169 Spring Framework 2.5: New and Notable What is new and why we care. A must see for anyone using Springframework. Note: JDK 1.3 support is being dropped.
TS-5509 Java™ Persistence API 2.0 An overview of the upcoming features of the new JPA. Worth a look.
TS-5859 Unit-Testing Database Operations with DBUnit A great look at a data base unit test tool. If your project uses a database, this presentation will be worth a look. Good for those of us already using DBUnit.
TS-6590 Using FindBugs in Anger If you have 100,00+ lines of code and 2 hours, this presentation will help you make the best use of your time. Helps sort out the different warning levels and where to get the best return on your investment of time.
This areticle may prove interesting to getting portletUnit packaged with maven.
Embedding Apache Pluto: "Apache Pluto, the reference implementation of the Java Portlet Specification, implements a portlet container that can be embedded easily within a portal or Web application. This article provides a comprehensive tutorial that explains how to embed the Pluto Portlet Container (version 1.1) into a Web application. It investigates the basic architecture of Portal Systems, provides an overview of Pluto's public API, and discusses two different integration techniques."
This page has a really nice example of HTML date input using Springframework form tags.
Occasional Java Coder: Spring 2.0 form tags: "I like the Spring's form tags. It just does what it what I wanted. Registered a custom date editor in the controller and used Spring's select tag for the date selection instead of input to a text box."
I did not even know about the DateFormatSymbols class.
Code Beach: Get the Names of the Months in Java: "This tutorial shows how to get the month names for the current locale or for a specific locale. Java provides an easy mechanism for getting localized month names. To get the month names, you will use the DateFormatSymbols in the java.text package. By default, the constructor will create a DateFormatSymbols object based on the current locale.
DateFormatSymbols symbols = new DateFormatSymbols();"