Java General

• Automate your build process using Java and Ant
  Michael Cymerman; Javaworld
  Ant is a powerful scripting tool that lets you craft build processes around your code requirements using predefined tasks and provides expansion capability to handle even more difficult tasks. This article is an introduction to the powerful XML-based scripting tool that can automate your mundane tasks and allow you to concentrate on your business rules and code development.

Building Web-Application

• Developing XML Solutions with JavaServer Pages Technology
  java.sun.com
  This paper highlights how JSP pages can consume XML data and generate XML-based markup languages for various types of Web-based clients.
• OnJava.com
  O'Reilly
  Java and XML is essential for business-to-business information interchange, synchronous data messaging, and business service objects as well as content generation using the following: JAXP API, Servlets, DOM, XSL/XSLT and Schemas.
• Processing XML with Java
  Elliotte Rusty Harold (NEW 23. January)
  Excellent Online Chapter.
• Solve your servlet-based presentation problems
  Kevin Unger; Javaworld
  Should you use raw servlets, JSP pages, servlets with a templating engine, an automatic HTML-to-Java compiler, or XSL stylesheets to implement content presentation in your next thin-client application? This article surveys the various techniques and helps you make the best decision for your project.
• Surveying the Landscape
  Christian Cryder; Enhydra
  The purpose of this document is to briefly survey the server-side presentation layer landscape to identify other frameworks that share similar problem domains to those addressed by the Rocks MVC and Component frameworks. Additional documents will provide more detailed analysis of the specific projects mentioned here.
• XML, Java, databases and the Web
  Nazmul Idris, developerlife.com
  In this article I will talk about certain strategies that make it easier to design systems where you have to use these APIs (DOM, SAX, Servlet API, JDBC, RMI etc.) and integrate your solution with pre existing software solutions (RDBMS, OODBMS, File systens, Webservers). I will show you how I "think" about all the pieces of our rather large puzzle and also how some of these pieces "fit" to create the big picture view of how all this stuff might one day work.