Useful Java links
Java Generic Library (extend the Collections API; commercial but cheap and seemingly stable and fast);
Prevayler (in-memory object database, see
article);
Abstract Data Types library (overlaps with Collections API, but...);
Jaxor (another O/R mapper);
Playing with J2EE Building Blocks (overview of Fowler/Rice session at JavaCon 2001 on good J2EE practices).