Useful tools/links

• Forums/BBs in Java
• JPOX -> DataNucleus
• New innovative Eclipse plugin for code exploration
• Track Java web application logs in Firefox
• Stripes 1.5 a presentation framework for building web applications using the latest Java technologies
  
• Loom 1.0 an open source Java web framework that handles user input validation and HTML generation for enterprise applications of any size
• Jerry Huxtable labs
• Exjali : EXpressiveness JAva LIbrary - Inspired by the buzz around Java 7 and "new" JVM language (Groovy, JRuby, Scala, ...), Exjali is a small Java library, allowing more expressive statements without altering the language. Exjali includes some attempts for ranges of integers, SQL-like functions, IO facilities, functors and named parameters.
• Ilog's blog
• Jetbrains Teamcity
• Multi-Thread Run-time Analysis Tool for Java
• uDig, a GIS framework for eclipse
• Tapestry, a framework for developing java web applications
• SOAsocial is a social networking site where you can track socially relevant activities in the SOA community and also participate in polls and other applications.
• Application Integration Through Mail Servers from the book Open Source ESBs.
• JBoss RestEasy helps you to build REST WS applications
• Web4J
• Apache Tiles a templating framework to simplify web application user interfaces development
• Spring WebFlow and Spring Workflow. Some other workflow engines in Java.
  
• Selenium is a testing framework for your web application independent of the programming language you are using.
• Openfire an XMPP Real Time Collaboration (RTC) server. 
• DocWeb a community Javadoc.
• Alice an education software that teaches students computer programming in a 3D environment
• Java API for KML (JAK) - can be found here or here.
• Play Web Application Framework
• Vaadin Java Framework for building web applications
• JWt a Java web toolkit for web applications that can be deployed within standard Servlet containers
• Javolution a library for real time applications
• JfcUnit a swing unit test framework. A list of unit test frameworks can be found here.
• OpenFaces
• FreeBase an entity-based database for the MetaWeb or Semantic Web. Watch the video.
• For those who work on SOA, there are two new standars, Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Objects (SDO). Project Apache Tuscany is an open source implementation of these standards from Open Service Oriented Architecture (OSOA).
• Google O3D a (deprecated) API for creating rich interactive applications for the browser.