Best of this Week Summary 16 August - 22 August 2010

• Great performance analysis (PDF) between Java IO and Java NIO by Google engineer Paul Tyma. Java IO is performing about 25% better.
  


• Of course I have to mention Oracle's Java lawsuit against Google. Several viewpoints can be found here (more on the profit/free markets) and here (more elaborate and technical details) and here (Android == Java?).
  


• A short comparison between Spring Web Services and Apache CXF.
  


• Several short HTML5 tutorials by Bob Leah from IBM collected at one place.
  


• Five things you might not know about .jar files.