[ajug-members] Best Java mailing lists?

[Joe Sam Shirah]

    Hi Parna,

> Is there a defacto Java list? Defacto Java EE list?

    No.  It used to be the case that the Advanced Java list and the Sun
lists on various topics pretty much met the billing, but that's long past.
For me, I've ended up subscribing to lots ( around 40 ) of JUG lists, but
that's due to both my own inclinations and my feeling that my clients
deserve the broadest base of knowledge possible.

    I noticed that other responders included forums.  As with my previous
response, it used to be the case that the Sun forums were pretty much THE
place.  I was the first Duke Dollars leader there ( for 18 months, and that
was when it meant something ) and it was the mechanism for most of my Java
background.  Unfortunately, it has too often degenerated into petty groups.
Still, it's often a good source, but not what it used to be.

    JavaRanch, as mentioned, is often a good resource for forum type
questions.  JavaWorld can be a good source of articles, but, again, not what
it used to be.

    I'll probably get beaten up as spam for this one, but I'll explain.  To
my mind, IBM's developerWorks site is one of the lesser known Java jewels.
To back me up possibly more objectively, it won a Jolt 2007 award.

    The reason to beat me up is that I'm the moderator of the Java Filter
forum at the devWorks Java zone.  But that's the same reason I know about
its workings.  The editor's mission at the Java zone ( and I believe for
the other zones ) is one or two new articles per week, two new tutorials per
month.  And it focuses on standard Java, not just IBM's version.  The forum
moderators are ( apart from myself ) extremely knowledgeable in the field,
like John Zukowski, Brett McLaughlin and Dennis Sosnoski.  They are also
paid to ensure a response when and if forum readers don't come up with an
answer. .

    I won't go on any further about the site, but I believe it is vastly
underused.  If anyone knows of another one consistently similar, I'd like to
know about it.

    I should also mention TheServerSide, a good resource for book and
excerpt downloads, news and occasional articles.  I am sometimes annoyed at
the load time for a site that focuses on the server side.

    I hope some of that helps.


                                                         Joe Sam

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Parna Hiram" <parna.hiram at gmail.com>
To: "General AJUG membership forum (100-200 messages/month)"
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Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 4:44 PM
Subject: [ajug-members] Best Java mailing lists?


> Hello again all.
>
> Historically, I've been a very avid user of mailing lists in the
> technologies I use, *except* for Java. PHP and Ruby for example have very
> good mailing lists for general discussions and for the types of questions
I
> ask on AJUG. Is there a defacto Java list? Defacto Java EE list? I can't
> seem to find it.
>
> Many thanks.
> Parna
>