At Paypal's first developer conference it was announced that the Java store will be using Paypal for application payments:

Developers can price their offering anywhere from $1.99 to $200.00 (USD) and select the license rights they wish to apply to their application. Developers will receive 70 percent of any for-fee application sold through the Java Store Beta. Utilizing the new Adaptive Payment API from PayPal, consumers can authorize the Java Store Beta to bill against their PayPal account so they can simply click the "Buy" button and never have to leave the store.

There's a link to the new client application for shopping in the Java Store on James Gosling's blog. He's looking for feedback as they're keen to launch to the U.S. market soon.

Joe Darcy has written an interesting blog post on the implementation of strings in switch statements, one of the changes accepted for inclusion in JDK 7 from Project Coin. The post highlights the steps he went through to modify the language.

If you like playing with the early access releases for JDK 7 you'll soon be able to use strings in switch statements in the milestone 5 release.

This week sees the release of Update 17 for JDK 6 which can be downloaded at the normal Java SE downloads page. Looking at the release notes, it's a security and bug fix release.

It's worth noting that this release coincides with the end of service life for JDK 5.

I've just been listening to the This Ain't Your Dad's Java team's latest podcast. This week the episode - Sh*t Happens, We're Sorry can be found online here. Or you can listen to it through iTunes with this link.

The podcast is about an hour long and is worth a listen if you want to hear about the Java Store (about 18 minutes in). The Java Store is due to go live (presumably just for the U.S.) in the next couple of weeks.