Java Champion and Rock Star Adam Bien, author of "Real World Java EE Patterns," shared his views on JavaFX with Janice J. Heiss in interview published in January 2010. Getting right to the heart of the subject, he identified the inclusion of "good skinnable components" in version JavaFX 1.2 as a welcome improvement. "JavaFX requires writing less code while it integrates very well with existing business logic written in Java. A reason to go the JavaFX route is better maintainability, and faster development with less code," he said.

Specifics about performance tuning and cloud computing figure importantly in the work of Java Champion Kirk Pepperdine, who told Janice J. Heiss that generic advice is useful but only if it is evaluated in terms of particular situations. "Performance tuning," Pepperdine contends, "is still an art where limits are stretched and one goes to places never gone to before. It's an experimental and creative realm with no one-size-fits-all answers to performance problems. It's highly localized."

Part 3 of "The Developer Insight Series: The Process of Writing Code" by Janice J. Heiss considers (in her own words), developers reflecting "...on the actual process of writing code, how it happens, what it feels like, and how they do it." Parts 1 and 2, covered in System News as "Dumb Code Has a Place in the Developers' World," concerned practiced developers offering their advice on writing good code.