Best of this Week Summary 03 November - 09 November 2008

• Three reasons why you could switch from Subversion to Git (distributed source code management tool, created by Linux Torvalds). Here's a quite extensive comparison and here you can compare it yourself.
  


• What makes good REST? Roy Fielding lists a couple of criteria.
  


• Tips and Q&A on optimizing and tuning Apache Tomcat.
  


• Yahoo! opened up its open strategy platform: Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP), Yahoo! Social Platform (YSP), and Yahoo! Query Language (YQL). All services are accessed via oAuth.
  


• Is the Sun (pun intended ;-) setting for Swing in favor of JavaFX???