FindBugs

The use of FindBugs is good advice though - as I detailed here on RegDeveloper a while ago: http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/06/15/findbugs_pan/

Broken...

The Other Steve -

Unfortunately this is an area where things are changing pretty fast. The tutorial uses what's in the current pre-packaged releases of NetBeans 6.0 and the Ruby Pack - in other words this is still version 1.0.x of JRuby and 1.2.3 of RoR. As of now this is still the latest pre-packaged version of the software that comes with NetBeans.

But point taken, in general we try and keep as up to date as possible given time constraints and deadlines...

Pan

Last time I looked...

...Flex 3 was still in beta. So, strictly speaking I should have said that Flex 2 was latest officially released version.

Pan

Life imitates art...

Reminds me of an old episode of 'Meet Joe Bloggs':

http://www.techbookreport.com/joebloggs06.html

And what about...

And let's not forget Java DB (aka Apache Derby and IBM Cloudscape)...

JAXB coverage

Deepak, it doesn't appear on the table of contents as a separate item, but the book does indeed cover JAXB 2.0 in chapter 6.