A new java.sun.com article, "FareCompare Ready to Soar With Migration to Java SE 6," by yours truly, imho is interesting in a couple of ways. First, it provides some inside dope on airline pricing and, of greater interest, gives details on how to use a new site, FareCompare.com, FareCompare.com – Discount Air Fare, Airline Tickets & Cheap Flights to get the cheapest tickets available. FareCompare claims to provide information on airline ticket deals 2 to 6 hours ahead of anyone else. And second, the article describes how a small team of developers makes use of Java technology -- and has taken advantage of Java SE 6 -- to process 300,000 to 400,000 city pairs, each with anywhere from 30 to 100 air fares, every day of the year, 8 times a day, while maintaining historical databases, in an effort to please consumers who can buy tickets up to 330 days ahead of their departure date. The article covers their use of generics, annotations for caching behavior, memory management, MBeans and JConsole and gives a picture of the complete architecture.