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Here's a list of things that I would like to look into, when I have time:

OSGi

Brian Coyner is playing with it. Andrew Binstock claims it is Java's client side container.

C-JDBC

Mentioned by Patrick Niemeyer at the JUG last Thursday when Patrick Linskey presented about JDO and EJB (BTW, the slides are posted).

java.lang.instrument

You've got to look into it when a new package shows up in java.lang!

Boost.Python

Scripting C++ in python.

SWIG

Scripting C/C++ in multiple languages, including Java and C#. I have know it for a long time, but never seriously learned it.

Here's how I did on my last list 496 days ago:

JOnAS

I took a cursory look and found that it has good documentation. Deployment seems less developer friendly. I stuck with JBoss.

nXML

I liked it and am still using it. I learned RELAX NG (pronounced relaxing according to Mark Volkmann) because of it.

Jena

Interesting academic exercise, couldn't really find a place to use it. I know the inside of Mozilla is full of RDFs, but boy was it hard to learn.

xmln and xmlv

Fun stuff. Meant to be used with sed and awk to manipulate XML. Jonathan would loved it. I still have them in my /usr/local/bin and use them occasionally.

XUL

I liked the idea of writing a web app that has tree controls and table controls. But do Mozilla XUL apps count as web apps?