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PHP - (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor)

• Official Site - http://www.php.net

Python

• Official Site - http://www.python.org
• Jython - http://www.jython.org - Python for Java

Tcl

• Official Site - http://www.scriptics.com
• Jacl - Tcl for Java
• Tcl Blend

Ruby

• Official Site http://www.ruby-lang.org
• JRuby - http://jruby.sourceforge.net - Ruby for Java

JavaScript

• Rhino - http://www.mozilla.org/rhino - JavaScript for Java

Perl

Rexx

• NetRexx - http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/netrexx

Quotes from IBM's NetRexx Site:

NetRexx is a human-oriented programming language which makes writing and using Java classes quicker and easier than writing in Java.

NetRexx is a programming and scripting language which has been designed to be a simple, effective, and complete alternative to the Java language.

NetRexx is inspired by two very different programming languages, Rexx and Java. It blends the clean easy-to-learn syntax of Rexx with the robustness and portability of the Java environment. The result is a language which is tuned for both scripting and application development, and is designed for both interpretation and compilation. It is therefore truly general-purpose.

Misc

• Beanshell (BSH) - http://www.beanshell.org
• IBM's Bean Scripting Framework (BSF) - http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/bsf
• Pnuts - http://javacenter.sun.co.jp/pnuts/ - a scripting language which can access Java APIs interactively; it can be embeded in a Java program and called easily from Java.

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JavaOne 2002 Talk: Dana Moore, Bill Wright (BBN) - Scripting Languages For Java (50 slides) - http://servlet.java.sun.com/javaone/sf2002/conf/sessions/display-2609.en.jsp - covers Python, Tcl, Ruby, JavaScript

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ActiveState - http://www.activestate.com - Source for Perl, Python, PHP, Tcl

Velocity - http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/ - Apache Jakarta open-source, embeddable, general-purpose template engine with a purposeful simple yet powerful template language (no Java knowledge required)

• You make the decision (YMTD) - http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/ymtd/ymtd.html - Comparing Velocity to JSP

WebMacro - http://www.webmacro.org - the granddaddy of Velocity

XSL/T

• W3C's XSL/T Spec - http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
• Xalan - http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/ - Apache XML Project Open-Source XSL/T Engine

Tea - http://opensource.go.com/Tea/ - Walt Disney's Internet Group's Open Source Template Engine - unlikely to florish under control of media colossus

PHP, see scripting section

JSP (Java Server Pages) - http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/

Apache Jakarta Struts - http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/

Apache Jakarta Turbine - http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/

Enhydra's Barracuda - http://barracuda.enhydra.org

JCorporate's Expresso - http://www.jcorporate.com/html/products/expresso.html

Crionics's HMVC - http://www.crionics.com/projects/hmvc/hmvc.html

HyperQBS - http://www.hyperqbs.com/

Scope - http://scope.sourceforge.net/

Javelin Software's Swinglets - http://www.swinglets.com/swinglets/

Tapestry - http://sourceforge.net/projects/tapestry/ - (GNU Lesser GPL)

WebWork - http://sourceforge.net/projects/webwork

Mercatis's WingS - http://wings.mercatis.de WingS - Next Generation Swing - open-source remote swing toolkit (GNU Lesser GPL)

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Sun's Java Server Faces

• Java Specification Request (JSR) #127 - http://jcp.org/jsr/detail/127.jsp - Status: Community Draft for Spring '02, Public draft for Summer '02, and Final draft for Fall '02
• JavaOne 2002 Talk: Amy Fowler, Ed Burns, Hans Muller (Sun) - About Faces: Simplifying Java Web App Development with Java Server Faces - http://servlet.java.sun.com/javaone/sf2002/conf/sessions/display-1697.en.jsp

Oracle's User Interface XML (UIX) , code-named Cabo, includes UIX Markup Language, UIX Controller (code-named Baja), UIX Styles (code-named Ocelot), UIX Components (code-named Marlin), UIX Shared Components and UIX Dynamic Images (code-named Tecate).

Oracle's UIX Developer's Guide ships with Oracle9i JDeveloper and is not available online.

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Mark H. Butler's tech report (Hewlett Packard Labs Bristol, HPL-2001-83) Current Technologies For Device Independence (March 2001) online at http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/marbut/currTechDevInd.htm

• Form Languages: BigWig/PowerForms, Mozquito Form Markup Language (FML), W3C XForms
• User Interface Languages: Harmonia UIML, OOP Hammock (dead), Mozilla XPToolkit/XUL

Christian Cryder's tech report Surveying the Landscape: Web app toolkits competing with Barracuda online at http://barracuda.enhydra.org/cvs_source/Barracuda/docs/landscape.html

• Leading Contenders: Struts, Turbine
• Component Frameworks: Hammock (OOP, Dead), Wings
• Other: WebWork, Expresso, Tapestry
• Scriptable Template Engines: Freemarker, WebMacro, Velocity
• Document Transformation: Cocoon, Sitemesh, Maverick
• Misc: Element Construction Set - ECS (Apache Jakarta), Sash Weblications (IBM)
• Newcomers: PowerForms, Bishop

Jason Hunter's Servlet Engine Directory - http://servlets.com/engines/

Mozilla Gecko

• Project Blackwood - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/blackwood/ - Mozilla-to-Java bridge (includes BlackConnect XPCOM, WebClient, pluglets, JavaDOM)
• Web Client - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/blackwood/webclient/ - Java API for web browser; embed Gecko in Java apps
• Browser G! - http://browserg.mozdev.org - Java example app using embedded Gecko browser widget

XBrowser - http://xbrowser.sourceforge.net - Java HTML browser; includes JavaScript support; dead or neglected since August 2001

Eclipse's Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT)

• SWT FAQ @ Eclipse.org
• SWT Component Development Resources @ Eclipse.org
• Kirk Vogen's Create native, cross-platform GUI applications: How GCJ, Linux, and the SWT come together to solve the Java UI conundrum, April 2002 - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-nativegui/

Gnome Gtk+ - http://www.gtk.org - The Gimp Toolkit

Gtk# - http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net - C# language binding for the Gtk+ toolkit

Trolltech Qt - http://doc.trolltech.com/3.0/

Tk

wxWindows - http://www.wxwindows.org/

anygui - http://anygui.sourceforge.net - unified Python API for various GUI toolkits (Tk, wxWindows, Swing, etc.)

• David Mertz's Charming Python Column: Preview of the anygui project: Anygui will wrap up the best toolkits for Python, October 2001 - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-anygui/

Phex - http://sourceforge.net/projects/phex - open-source gnutella peer to peer file sharing app

Limewire - http://www.limewire.org - open-source GPL'ed gnutella peer to peer file sharing engine

Elliote Rusty Harold's Cafe Au Lait - http://www.cafeaulait.org - Daily Java News

Elliote Rusty Harold's Cafe Con Leche - http://www.cafeconleche.org - Daily XML News

Apache XML Projects - http://xml.apache.org

Apache Jakarta - http://jakarta.apache.org - Apache Open-Souce Java Projects

Freshmeat - http://freshmeat.net - Daily Product Announcements; Search It To Undig Gems

• New Java Projects
• Updated Java Projects

Sourceforge - http://sourceforge.net - Open-Source Java Project Hub; Search It To Discover Nuggets

• Java Projects (more than 5000 projects and counting)

Javalobby - http://www.javalobby.org - Daily Product Announcements; Watercooler Gossip

ON Java - http://www.onjava.com - O'Reilly Network's Java Site

JavaWorld - http://www.javaworld.com - Weekly Online Magazine (Includes Searchable Archive)

IBM's DeveloperWorks Java Zone - http://www.ibm.com/developer/java/

Sun's Java Developer Connection (JDC) - http://developer.java.sun.com

Google - http://www.google.com

Teoma - http://www.teoma.com - Upcoming Google Clone (Not Even Close)

Java Channel - http://pharos.inria.fr/Java/ - review database for Java products, articles, sites and more.

Free Software Foundation - http://www.gnu.org - GNU's Not Unix, GNU General Public License (GPL) Sheppard

• The GNU GPL Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

Open Source Initiative (OSI) - http://www.opensource.org - certifies open-source licenses to uncover fake open-source licenses like Micro$oft's phony "Sharded" license

• Open-Source Definition - http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.html - open-source license criteria - right to read, redistribute, modify, and use the software freely.
• Approved Open-Source Licenses - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/

David Wheeler's Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers - http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html - monumental fact-packed research report - key finding: open-source fuels the Internet (for example, Apache ran eleven million web servers in April 2002; Google runs Linux; Yahoo runs FreeBSD, and on and on and on)

GNU eforms - http://www.gnuenterprise.org - Enterprise Forms in XML a la W3C XForms - part of GNU Enterprise (GNUe)

Epicentric's Web Services User Interface (WS-UI) Consortium - http://www.wsui.org - folded into OASIS WSCM (Web Services Component Model)

Red Whale's Extensible Interface Markup Language (XIML) - http://www.ximl.org

Antoine Quint's Extending SVG for XForms, May 2002 - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/05/22/svg.html

Extensible User Interface Protocol (XUP) - http://www.w3.org/TR/xup/