Weekend links

I haven’t had much time lately, so I’ve put together a few interesting recommendations for the weekend.

• The final version of JSR 244, also known as Enterprise Edition 5, was approved. See TSS: Java EE 5 passes — ready, set, code!
• Could work be starting on an SDK for the Swing framework? JL: Swing Application Framework (JSR 296). By the way, do you know about Sun’s open-source Swing laboratory project, SwingLabs?
• DJ Padák published a short review of the interesting workshop DATESO 2006
• The class-loader problem, or class-loader hell, and a discussion of a possible solution at TSS: Andy Oliver: Versioning and Classloading in Java
• Tomáš Kouba has taken on an interesting comparison: Thick versus thin applications