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[+58] [29] John Channing
[2008-09-07 19:23:15]
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[ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/48701] [DELETED]

Please reply with just one blog per answer to allow the voting system to bring the best/most popular to the top.

(6) This, if anything, really should be community wiki. Curious it wasn't already. - Jonik
(2) Look at the date the question was asked, I think the forum norms have changed over time. - John Channing
(1) I'm voting to close this subjective poll question. Make it CW at least. - Pascal Thivent
(2) simpleprogrammer.com - SPD
[+20] [2008-09-07 19:35:39] Rob Oxspring [ACCEPTED]

Even if you don't listen to The Java Posse [1] then reading the blog is great for a regular summary of what's happening in the Java world. But you should listen to the podcast :)

[1] http://javaposse.com/

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[+17] [2008-09-07 19:37:42] bibix

http://www.javaspecialists.eu/


(2) Technically, it's a newsletter rather than a blog, but it's excellent by any name. - Alan Moore
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[+11] [2008-09-07 19:24:39] John Topley

It has to be The BileBlog [1].

[1] http://www.bileblog.org/

(3) Isn't the bileblog "dead"? Even though it was a very great blog, it will not be updated anymore - Mo.
Is it? I didn't realise! :-( - John Topley
(1) Unfortunately it's dead. I wish I knew why. - Uri
(1) Hani went mainstream. Besides, The Bile Blog was more about biting sarcasm than learning technology. - duffymo
Nice blog, sad to see no more update. - fastcodejava
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[+9] [2009-08-19 18:17:22] community_owned

I got a lot of my java dose from http://java.dzone.com (previously Javalobby.org)


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[+7] [2008-09-22 06:14:44] Tony R

In no particular order and I'll try to not repeat any previously mentioned. I've noticed that most blogs have been 'consumed' by news sites. So you will be in good shape if you grab the feed from 3-4 of these aggregators rather than piecing them together one by one.

IBM Developerworks [1]

Java Developer's Journal [2]

On Java [3] (O'Reilly)

The Server Side [4]

Dr Dobb's [5]

Artima Developer [6]

Java Crawl [7] - Java News Aggregator

Developers @ Slashdot [8]

Programming Resources [9]

Spring Source [10] (Rod Johnson)

JBoss Matrix [11]

JRoller [12]

Steve Yegge [13] - has some gems about programming interviews.

Reza Rahman's Blog [14] (EJB3 in Action Author)

[1] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java
[2] http://java.sys-con.com/
[3] http://www.onjava.com/
[4] http://www.theserverside.com/
[5] http://www.ddj.com/java/?cid=vnav
[6] http://www.artima.com/articles?i=lejava
[7] http://www.javacrawl.com/
[8] http://developers.slashdot.org/
[9] http://twit88.com/blog/
[10] http://blog.springsource.com/author/rodj/
[11] http://blogs.jboss.com/blog/
[12] http://www.jroller.com/
[13] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/
[14] http://www.rahmannet.net/blog/

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[+6] [2008-09-17 21:46:56] VonC

Just a quick note to complete the previous answers:

alt text [1] (Planet JDK) allows you pretty much to follow all of them ;) (almost)

[1] http://planetjdk.org/

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[+5] [2008-09-07 19:57:10] Luther Baker

http://www.theserverside.com/ is pretty good for JEE articles.


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[+5] [2008-09-07 20:20:40] Stu Thompson

James Gosling: On a New Road [1] (nighthacks.com/roller/jag)

[1] http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag

The blog has moved, since James Gosling is no longer at Sun/Oracle: nighthacks.com/roller/jag - kg.
@kg: thanks, have udated - Stu Thompson
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[+5] [2008-08-17 20:12:11] community_owned

In addition to the blogs listed in the replies(above), there's also a very good Java podcast that you might want to subscribe to. It's called JavaPosse [1].

They talk about latest developments in all things Java( J2EE, J2ME etc ).

-Anup

[1] http://www.javaposse.com

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[+3] [2008-09-16 12:54:11] Vinny Carpenter

http://www.infoq.com/, http://www.dzone.com/, http://www.javablogs.com/, http://www.jroller.com/ and http://www.theserverside.com/ among many many others. The sites listed above aren't individual blogs but a group of aggregators with user submitted content.


From the question: "Please reply with just one blog per answer to allow the voting system to bring the best/most popular to the top." I'd vote for InfoQ, but these should be split up in separate posts first... (actually all except jroller and infoq have one already) - Jonik
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[+3] [2010-07-23 12:15:57] nanda

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/

I especially loves articles from Brian Goetz


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[+2] [2010-03-06 22:41:41] trashgod

Java Tips Weblog [1] has scores of high quality articles.

[1] http://tips4java.wordpress.com/

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[+2] [2008-09-07 19:25:46] Chris Kimpton

java.net [1]

[1] http://weblogs.java.net/

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[+2] [2008-08-17 16:37:51] Brian Laframboise

These are more news-oriented sites, but may still be what you want:

  • InfoQ [1] - Enterprise software development site. You can get a customized feed just for Java technologies. I really enjoy the presentations and interviews they post.
  • Javalobby [2] - Java developer site. For me it's more hit-and-miss, but worth checking out.
[1] http://www.infoq.com/
[2] http://java.dzone.com/

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[+2] [2008-09-07 20:56:53] tremoloqui

For Java and a few others, anything by Bruce Eckel is going to be worth reading.

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/feeds/bloggers/beckel.rss


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[+1] [2008-08-17 14:43:54] Craig

I took a look at what I am reading for java blogs and came up with this list

Java Weblogs [1] is a great place to start, lots and lots of java specific blogs.

Evan Summers [2] not posting very frequently.

James Gosling [3] Father of Java, but the blog is not technical, he is mostly involved with Real-Time Java now.

John Reynolds [4] more general programming/business type stuff

[1] http://weblogs.java.net/
[2] http://weblogs.java.net/blog/evanx/
[3] http://blogs.sun.com/jag/
[4] http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnreynolds/

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[+1] [2008-09-16 13:01:58] Adrian Mouat

Cafe Au Lait [1], but it tends to be more of a news site.

[1] http://www.cafeaulait.org/

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[+1] [2008-09-16 12:50:48] Dave Cheney

http://javablogs.com


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[+1] [2009-02-16 23:59:27] Jonik

Dan Dyer's New Adventures in Software [1] is a great blog with quite a lot of Java content.

I don't want to duplicate infomation too much (DRY and all :), so see this answer [2] for a few more sentences about the virtues of the blog.

[1] http://blog.uncommons.org/
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/78955/what-are-the-best-programming-and-development-related-blogs/554944#554944

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[+1] [2009-02-22 08:05:54] sarav

Core Java Tech Tips [1] For in depth coverage on Java features (though updated less frequently)

[1] http://blogs.sun.com/CoreJavaTechTips/feed/entries/rss

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[+1] [2009-03-04 04:47:06] community_owned

You may find some Java core concept in http://webmoli.com blog.


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[0] [2010-10-27 15:35:00] Francesco Marchioni

http://www.mastertheboss.com has got plenty of tutorials about JBoss Hibernate Java EE technology.


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[0] [2010-11-10 03:57:30] mohan kumar

http://javabeans.asia/


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[0] [2010-12-08 17:41:37] Krishna

JavaBeat [1]

[1] http://www.javabeat.net

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[0] [2011-04-15 08:20:51] kinshuk4

Have a look at this blog - Java Jazzle [1]
This blog is work around technologies like spring and other java related techs.

[1] http://k2java.blogspot.com

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[0] [2008-12-29 14:23:23] community_owned

If you read french check http://touilleur-express.fr A very good blog in french about java.


Was happy to see a french fellow... but the link is dead. - Antoine Claval
(1) @Antoine: It's working for me ... mais je ne sais pas Francais ... so I do not know what it's saying. - GreenMatt
Use google translator :P ........... - Sayem
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[0] [2008-08-17 20:05:00] david

I can recommend DZone [1], which is basically Digg for Software Development. I subscribed to the Java Ta [2]g and there are a lot of good articles coming through DZone.

[1] http://www.dzone.com
[2] http://www.dzone.com/links/queue/tag/java.html

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[0] [2008-08-17 20:11:16] Walter Rumsby

http://javablogs.com/ is another blog aggregation site.


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[-4] [2008-09-10 17:01:56] Kamikaze Mercenary

www.joelonsoftware.com [1]

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com

(2) Joel doesn't really cover Java (except to rant against "Java Schools"). - Dan Dyer
More of an anti-Java blog IMO - Don
(2) Okay, javadevs, feel free to vote this down but stop flagging it as offensive. It doesn't qualify. - Will
(2) I think it's an important site BECAUSE of Joels rants about it. - Kamikaze Mercenary
not related to java - Krishna
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