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5. Merging and branching in Subversion 1.5
6. Understanding the Java Persistence API
7. Four harmful Java idioms, and how to fix them
8. Asynchronous HTTP and Comet architectures
9. Introducing Hibernate Search
10. Open source Java projects: Java Native Access

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