There's still time to get the Early Bird discount of $400 for JavaOne 2012 but you'll have to be quick. The end date is 11.00pm Friday 13th July (Pacific Time). You can find out more information about registering for JavaOne 2012 at the registration page.

If you want to find out what sessions are going to be on at JavaOne 2012 have a look at the content catalog. It outlines the 283 conference sessions as well as hands-on labs, birds-of-a-feather and more.

JavaOne 2012 is being held in San Francisco from September 30th to October 4th, 2012. Have a look at the official JavaOne website for more info or follow the news on Twitter: @javaoneconf and Facebook.

Following on from last month's Handling Events post here's some more examples on event handling:

• Learn about handling mouse events in this step-by-step guide How to Handle Mouse Events which looks at the MouseListener, MouseMotionListener and MouseWheelListener interfaces.
• See How to Handle Item Events using the ItemListener interface with a JComboBox.

Related Articles:

• Capturing Mouse Events Example Program
• ItemListener Example Code Program
• JLabel Overview
• Creating Labels Example Program
• JTextArea Glossary

Java 7 Update 5 (and the corresponding Java 6 Update 33) are available to download from Oracle's Java download page. Looking at the release notes this is a bug fix release including 14 security fixes - see the Oracle Java SE Critical Patch Update Advisory for details.

This release also contains the JavaFX 2.1.1 SDK for Windows and Mac OS X (the developer preview for Linux can be found in the JavaFX section). The JavaFX SDK release notes just point to the security fixes.

Apple have released Java for OS X Lion 2012-004 (along with the corresponding Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 9).

This update includes security fixes to align it with Oracle’s Java SE 6 Update 33.

The update will come through the software updater or can be downloaded from the Apple downloads page.