SOLR is a ready-to-use Enterprise Search Server implemented in Java and based on Apache Lucene. SOLR runs as stand-alone HTTP server or web application using HTTP & XML for remote communication. This makes embedding a fulltext search in your application straightforward and is independent from your favourite programming language.
An introduction to Continuous Integration using CruiseControl. The slides are taken from Joe Schmetzer of Exubero (see www.exubero.com) with a little bit of polishing. Having said that a lot of the polishing was already done by S5, the Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System (see http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/).
An introduction to JAmon 2.x and how to embed it into various applications, e.g. servlet filters, manual code, dynamic proxies or using a service framework. The examples are created with fulcrum-yaafi-1.0.5 using the JAMonInterceptorService.
An introduction to Canoo WebTest - an ANT based functional web testing tool.
An introduction to XML-RPC and how to interact with Java and TCL.
An introduction to Maven1 and a good overview of available plugins.
An overview of Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool, a very simple load test tool for web applications.