Best of this Week Summary 26 July - 1 August 2010

• Pretty nasty, some application apparently depend on the the company name in the JDK! Including Eclipse, causing OutOfMemoryErrors since Oracle changed the name from 'Sun Microsystems, Inc' to 'Oracle'. Sounds like a magic constant somewhere... Though as it says here it had to be put in to work around another bug. Oracle rolled it back until JDK 7.
  


• Evolutionary architecture and emergent design: Leveraging reusable code, Part 1 and Part 2.
  


• A Spring MVC 3 Showcase, which should give you have a good idea of what the technology can do.It includes a sample project, along with a supporting slide presentation and screencast. After digging in, you should have a good understanding of what Spring MVC can do and get a feel for how easy it is to use.
  


• Some random Android tips/lessons learned.
  


• Java Iterator Quiz time!