Sue Spielman looks at JSP and XSP to help you decide which is right for your development needs.

By Simon Whiteside. XML is increasingly used to store data in Java programs. Article shows how XML can be extended to incorporate behavior, via author's open source scripting language. [O'Reilly ONJava.com]

Bruce Tate's Beyond Java suggests Ruby as a top contender to displace Java. Tate, James Duncan Davidson, Robert Cooper and Bill Venners opine on Ruby and its challenge to Java. O'Reilly Media.

Article by Craig Pfeifer in ONJava.com. Purpose of TRaX (Java API for specifying and executing XML transformations), code example, links.

Mark Petrovic shows how to use a development-time SecurityManager that logs applications' calls and builds a suitable Java security policy file.

Article that examines various Java security services, including Java Security Manager, Security Provider Architecture, and Authentication components.

Andrew Newton reviews an alternative to Property files.

Interesting visionary article on Jini, JavaSpaces for collaborative workplaces.[O'Reilly]

Open source framework for rapid development of web applications using Java with a coarse-grained pooling strategy, high code-reuse, and line-precise error reporting.

The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) lets you create Ajax applications by writing Java code and generating JavaScript automatically. Robert Cooper shows how to get up and running with a GWT example.