Since IBM puchased the company Gluecode, they now have a vested interest in seeing Geronimo succeed. Gluecode is a pacakger and promoter of Geronimo, and develop a set of management tools that make administration of a Geronimo server easier.
Are Linux LAMP developers moving to Java?
Evans Data research company has a report from a survey in Europe and Middle East and shows that the number of developers currently using development tools such as PHP and Perl on a Linux platform is slowing declining. The research company is speculating that these developer are moving to Java instead.
Luke – Lucene Index Toolbox
Luke is a development and debugging tool that helps you work with Lucene generated indexes. The tool gives you a GUI frontend to allow you to browse indexes generated by Lucene and run queries against the index.
The site has a Java Web Start enabled version that you can easily downloads and install automatically including all necessary jars.
Getting started with JDO
Despite the ongoing development and momentum building with EJB3.0 and it’s radically simplified persistence approach (similar to Hibernate), the JDO spec is also still alive and kicking as another alternative.
Sun have an article on their site giving an overview and quick introduction to JDO along with code examples.