When I first heard about Sun's JSTL library, I thought it would be just a rehash of the Struts tag libraries. I was wrong and now that I know what JSTL can do, I will never go back [JSTL]. 5:32:58 PM    comment []  

One of my big complaints about most IDE's has always been the lack of power in the editors. IDE's provide a number of nice features like code completion, integrated debugging, etc., but often lack some of the power that the pure text editors provide. My view on this matter may soon change with the Vi plugin for Eclipse [MJWall]. So far it is not a full implementation of Vi, but it's a start. What would be really nice is to have full Vim implementation in Eclipse. Anyone interested? 11:14:36 AM    comment []  

Eclipse Checkstyle v3.1 was recently launched. The tool will scan Java source and highlight sections that do not conform to certain stylistic standards [Checkstyle].

In addition to using the Eclipse Checkstyle plug-in you can also use Checkstyle from the command line or as part of an Ant build [JSurfer].

This might be useful if you are working with a team of developers and are trying to enforce a common coding style. 11:10:14 AM    comment []  

Jakarta Lucene is a Java library for text indexing and searching [Lucene][via Simon Brown]. 11:06:17 AM    comment []