 In looking back at my JavaFX… does it have a future? posting, my views have been changed by some of the comments made, in particular about JavaFX vs. Flash/Flex and Java Web Start.
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 Earlier this month, Oracle released a new version of Java, 1.6.0_21 (also called 6u21). Unfortunately as Eclipse users quickly discovered, it was incompatible with Eclipse and Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) programs. Bug 319514 in the Eclipse bug database has all the gory details, but in a nutshell, Oracle changed the company name property on java.exe from “Sun Microsystems, Inc” to “Oracle”.
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 This tutorial shows you how to create a Data Provider to access and paginate a comma delimited text file. We will then use the same provider to page through the data in a Console, Swing and JSF application using the DataValve client/provider interface components.
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 Ed Burnette published an informative article on ZDNet about the recent incompatibility problem with Eclipse and Java 6 update 21. Unfortunately the comments contain a lot of nasty accusations and finger-pointing, with people variously blaming Oracle or Eclipse or both for the mess… and even Ed’s article title seems a trifle unfair on Oracle.
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 Today is a very exciting and important day for the Eclipse community. The Eclipse Platform project has released Eclipse SDK 4.0, the next generation of the Eclipse platform. For technical perspective on the release I point you to Mike Wilson’s excellentt blog post ‘Growing the future’.
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 Programmers will learn to develop and deploy impressive Java applications using BlackBerry SDK 4.5 that helps them get the most out of BlackBerry smartphones. Readers will be shown how to install the Java SDK as well as install Eclipse with the BlackBerry Component Package. They will learn about UI programming, data storage, programming network, and internet API apps along with being introduced to BlackBerry's device features, such as messaging, GPS, multimedia, contacts and calendar.
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 This article gives an overview about the Eclipse 4.0 application platform which was created by the Eclipse e4 project. This tutorial is based on Eclipse 4.0 SDK.
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