- picocli, a command-line parser. Apache-licensed; seems similar to JCommander with fewer dependencies.
- 9 Logging Sins in your Java Applications details, well, nine possible logging problems. It’s stuff worth thinking about.
- Five Things You Didn’t Know About… Java Database Connectivity, from IBM developerworks, walks through some things about JDBC that you might not have known. I learned about at least two things that were added since the last time I took a good look at JDBC. (I’m offering no hints about which things they were.)