Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications, an excellent article and a MUST READ beforehand is here -> http://adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/000385.php
Introduction to Ajax - Netbeans Tutorial with hands on is here -> http://www.netbeans.org/kb/docs/php/ajax-quickstart.html
Ajax Tags - The AJAX Tag Library is a set of JSP tags that simplify the use of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) technology in JavaServer Pages. -> http://ajaxtags.sourceforge.net/

Apache Tomcat

How to set up virtual host in tomcat — http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/virtual-hosting-howto.html
Virtual Hosting with Tomcat —> http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/tomcat-vhost.html
Setting up the Context Root for Tomcat — http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html
Setting the valve value for Tomcat — http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/valve.html

Apache Wicket

http://www.wicketstuff.org/wicket13/ - Examples

Apache Turbine

Apache Turbine - a servlet based J2EE web application framework. (V 2.3.2)

Binary - http://apache.mirrors.hoobly.com/turbine/turbine-2.3.2/binaries/turbine-2.3.2.zip
Source - http://apache.mirrors.hoobly.com/turbine/turbine-2.3.2/source/turbine-2.3.2-src.zip
Just the jar file alone - http://apache.mirrors.hoobly.com/turbine/turbine-2.3.2/binaries/turbine-2.3.2.jar (is present inside the binary zip file itself)

DMZ

A good explanation (a figure) in a blog of DMZ —> http://skrajend.blogspot.com/2007/09/oracle-application-server-internet.html

Java - Unicode

An article about Supplementary Characters in Java Unicode is http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/Supplementary/

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) - a lengthy but good article about Unicode is here http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

Java Unicode from mindprod.com -> http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unicode.html

Java Unicode Conversion CheatSheet for JDK 1.5 from mindprod.com -> http://mindprod.com/jgloss/convert15.html

Java - Articles

Corey McGlone's Strings Literally of JavaRanch Journal is here

Article about Java classes and objects and their memory structure is here

Java Installation Notes from SUN (both JDK and JRE for various platforms) is here

Sample Chapter from Effective Java book, Chapter 3 deals with methods common to all objects is here -> http://java.sun.com/developer/Books/effectivejava/Chapter3.pdf

sizeof for Java, an article from Java World is here -> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javaqa/2003-12/02-qa-1226-sizeof.html

Java tip 130: Do you know your data size? an article from Java world is here -> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javatips/jw-javatip130.html

When Runtime.exec() won't - Navigate yourself around the pitfalls related to Runtime.exec() method - an article of JavaWorld is here -> http://www.javaworld.com/cgi-bin/mailto/x_java.cgi?pagetosend=%2Fexport%2Fhome%2Fhttpd%2Fjavaworld%2Fjavaworld%2Fjw-12-2000%2Fjw-1229-traps.html

Implicit and Explicit type conversions in Java -> http://www.bubble-media.com/cgi-bin/articles/archives/000035.html

Overloading Rules -> http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/showtopic42214.htm

File Upload -> http://faq.javaranch.com/java/FileUpload

String Vs StringBuffer — discussion in Sun Developer Network forum -> http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=772805&messageID=4403588

Is String threadsafe and mutable — an excellent discussion at Sun forum -> http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=360645&start=0&tstart=0

null==obj Vs obj==null - a nice explanation is here -> http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=484511&messageID=2264785

My Favorite JVM Hotspot Flags - a blog entry is here -> http://blog.headius.com/2009/01/my-favorite-hotspot-jvm-flags.html

Java - equals() method

The Wrong code: equals/instanceof pitfall a nice blog article is here http://thewrongcode.blogspot.com/2007/12/equalsinstanceof-pitfall.html

Secrets of equals() - Article Series from Angelika Langer - Training & Consulting
- Part 1 is here http://www.angelikalanger.com/Articles/JavaSolutions/SecretsOfEquals/Equals.html
- Part 2 is here http://www.angelikalanger.com/Articles/JavaSolutions/SecretsOfEquals/Equals-2.html

instanceof versus getClass in equals Methods from Josh Bloch, author of Effective Java is here http://www.artima.com/intv/bloch17.html

Java - Template Engines

Apache Velocity
- Wikipedia says, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Velocity
- Home page -> http://velocity.apache.org/
- A JavaWorld Article entitled Start up the Velocity Template Engine —> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2001/jw-1228-velocity.html

FreeMarker

Home Page -> http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/
Manual -> http://freemarker.org/docs/index.html
What Wikipedia Says, —> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeMarker
A JavaWorld Article entitled FreeMarker: An open alternative to JSP —> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-2001/jw-0119-freemarker.html
A JavaWorld article entitled Velocity or FreeMarker? —> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-11-2007/jw-11-java-template-engines.html?fsrc=rss-index

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Java - RegEx

The Java Regex API Explained -> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/java-regex-api-explained/

Java - Tutorials

A good tutorials on Java programming is learn-programming.za.net here
Java Tutorials from SUN is here
A really big index of all SUN Java Tutorial is here
Download the sun's java tutorials here
- Tutorial for J2SE 5.0 Tiger can be downloaded in this link http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorialNB/download/tutorial-5.0.zip
Java Networking Tutorials from SUN is here
Java Tutorials which is moreorless of Sun's (look and feel) but good one : here
If finding it difficult to proceed, one sample link for Objects and classes is here

Java Tutorials from mydeveloperconnection is here
Java GOF Design patterns tutorials is here
Some Good Java Tutorials/Articles from Deitel's website is here

Java 5
- Introducing Java 5 -> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/introducing-java-5/

Java - String

How long is your string - here

Java - Threads

Maha Anna's collection of discussion about Threads from JavaRanch here

Java - Examples

Java-examples dot com is at here
Easier execution of external Processes in Java - sample application from http://www.codeproject.com is here -> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/java/ProcessHelper.aspx. The file downloaded from the website is added here in the 'Files' section of this page.
A beautiful and simple examples collection is here -> http://leepoint.net/notes-java/index.html

Java Design Patterns

Specific Patterns
- Adapter pattern is described here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapter_pattern
- Proxy Pattern is described here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_pattern

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Java - Plugins

Adding Plugins to a Java Application by Ulf Dittmer is here -> http://www.javaranch.com/journal/200607/Plugins.html

Java - Utilties

Utilties to Read/Write MS Applications
- Java libraries to read and write Word DOC files -> http://schmidt.devlib.org/java/libraries-word.html
- Apache POI - Java API To Access Microsoft Format Files -> http://poi.apache.org/
- Opening Microsoft File Formats to Java -> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/01/22/poi.html

Java-CSS — an utiltity to embed CSS from within Java language itself -> https://javacss.dev.java.net/docs/overview.html

PDF Generator for Java
- Dynamic PDF — http://www.dynamicpdf.com
  - For Windows -> http://www.cete.com/Products/DynamicPDFforJava/DownloadWinPackage.csp
  - For Linux/Unix ->http://www.cete.com/Products/DynamicPDFforJava/DownloadNixPackage.csp
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Apache PDFBox - JavaPDF library -> http://incubator.apache.org/pdfbox/

dbdeploy -> http://dbdeploy.com/ -> Database Change Management tool. It’s for developers or DBAs who want to evolve their database design - or refactor their database - in a simple, controlled, flexible and frequent manner.

Read this article first -> http://dbdeploy.com/documentation/taking-control-of-your-database-development-white-paper/. The page contains the document (pdf) at this location -> http://dbdeploy.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/taking-control-of-your-database-development.pdf. The same is attached in the Files section below.

Object Oriented Patterns, Concepts

Liskov Substitution Principle speaks about subclass-superclass inheritance relationship is described here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle
A good article from ObjectMentor for the LSP is here http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/articles/lsp.pdf
Association, Aggregation and Composition — a good discussion is here -> http://saloon.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=9&t=001852. Yet another link is here http://ootips.org/uml-hasa.html

Open Source Projects

BCEL - Byte Code Engineering Library - similar to Reflection API. Have a look at it here
One Jar - to pack everything into one single jar file. Have a look at it here

Java Portlet Tutorials

Portlet in Netbeans 6.0 -> http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/tools/nb_portlets/
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CSS

Tabbed Navigation Using CSS -> Excellent Tutorial here
CSS Tutorial Forum -> http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/showforum57.htm
A Gentle Introduction to CSS, Adding a touch of style is here from w3.org is here -> http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Style
Good CSS Tutorial -> http://www.hscripts.com/tutorials/css/index.php

CSS Articles
CSS Is Easy! -> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/css-is-easy/
Introduction to CSS Shorthand -> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/introduction-css-shorthand/
CSS Positioning Properties At-A-Glance Guide -> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/properties-glance-guide/
Introduction to Browser-Specific CSS Hacks -> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/browser-specific-css-hacks/
Fancy Form Design Using CSS -> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/fancy-form-design-css/
Terrific Tables with CSS -> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/terrific-tables-css/
CSS and Round Corners: Build Boxes with Curves -> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/css-round-corners-boxes-curves/
CSS and Round Corners: Build Accessible Menu Tabs -> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/accessible-menu-tabs/
Style Web Forms Using CSS -> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/style-web-forms-css/

Version Control - Online

Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere. It is developed for remote access and delivered as a SaaS. You can connect to SourceAnywhere Hosted from anywhere, anytime without need to install server software. The homepage of SourceAnywhere Hosted is here

Nice Utilities

RescueTime - an utility to monitor your time schedules and represent it in a graph online. It is here -> http://www.rescuetime.com/ Got to know through Adarsh R of THBS
AlZip - a nice zipping/unzipping utility available from www.altools.net. The alzip exe is attached herewith in Files section of this page below. Got to know through Amit (Michelin) of THBS

UnxUtils — a nice utility which facilitates the user to run the GNU Unix commands in Windows Enviroment

MakeFAQ - an faq maker utility
- http://www.lodestar2.com/software/makefaq/ —> which is redirected from http://www.makefaq.org site [took from cewolf - sourceforge.net http://cewolf.sourceforge.net/new/index.html — look at the bottom of the page]

Editor - Note Tab -> http://www.notetab.com/ntl.php
- Download
  - Exe (1) -> http://www.fookes.com/ftp/free/NoteTab_Setup.exe [2.8 MB]
  - Exe (2) -> http://www.notetab.ch/ftp/NoteTab_Setup.exe
  - Zip (1) -> http://www.fookes.com/ftp/free/ntfree.zip [2.1MB]
  - Zip (2) -> http://www.notetab.ch/ftp/ntfree.zip [see the files attached here in files section]

Editor — Notepad2 -> http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html [see the files attached here in files section]
- Download
  - Zip (1) -> http://www.flos-freeware.ch/zip/notepad2.zip
  - http://www.download.com/Notepad2/3000-2351_4-10516749.html

Editor — Metapad —> http://liquidninja.com/metapad/
- Download
  - URL -> http://liquidninja.com/metapad/download.html
  - Zip file -> http://liquidninja.com/metapad/metapad351.zip (Attached in the Files section below)
  - Zip (LE - Light Edition) -> http://liquidninja.com/metapad/metapad351LE.zip

Syntax Highligher — Google code project developed in Javascript to highlight the syntax for Java, PHP, CSS, etc., languages. It is here -> http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/

NewsInjector - simple News management for corporate web applications -> http://www.newsinjector.com/demo.html
BIRT - Excel Reporting Tool -> http://www.birt-exchange.com/products/spreadsheet-report-designer/
Pastebin — online source code highlighting editor. Free of use! http://pastebin.com/
Webalizer — http://www.webalizer.org/ —> fast, free web server log file analysis program. Got to know through Sriram Narayanan in BOJUG, Googlegroups
GUI for Webalizer -> http://www.tobias-schwarz.net/programmierung/webalizer_guie.html
Awstats — http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ —> free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. Got to know through SathishKumar T in BOJUG, Googelgroups

JPDFBookMarks
- A Bookmark editor for PDF files -> http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Environment/Tools/JPdfBookmarks-39503.shtml
- Documentation online -> http://jpdfbookmarks.altervista.org/toc.html
- Author's blog -> http://flavianopetrocchi.blogspot.com/

WebDeveloper - a plugin for Mozilla Firefox and the browsers based on it (Flock, CometBird etc.,), SeaMonkey — having a good feature of viewing the CSS file on a website separately etc.,. http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/

Activities and Expense Tracker Plus -> A good desktop utility to keeptrack of your activities, contacts, expenses etc., with the options like password protection, backing up the database etc.,. The Trial version can be obtained from -> http://wareseeker.com/download/activity-and-expense-tracker-plus-1.8.6.rar/7c5c3392d

AnAppADay —> This is an utility which helps masking the entire background and all the other windows opened at the moment leaving the application/window which was on focus just before this app got activated. You can search in Google for the download link. Got the software from Vivek Juneja of THBS. Find it in the Files Section below (AnAppADay.zip).

AllMyBooks - a nice utility to organize the books in your PC. URL to download the trial version -> http://www.bolidesoft.com/software/amb_setup.exe. You can manually add the information about the books, author, ISBN, FrontPage, Synopsis etc., for later retrieval.

WindowBlinds — a beautiful utility to provide a different/virtual desktop experience by providing/loading various themes. You can download the themes from http://wincustomize.com. It is a shareware and you can get the Trial version basically. If possible, grab the crack and execute :). Got to know through Vivek Juneja of THBS.

AvaFind — an excellent Desktop Search Utility. Got to know through Jujahar Singh of THBS. The trial version is attached in the Files section below.

Online Storages (FTP servers, site)

A good collection of links here http://techmagazine.ws/free-online-file-storage/
http://280slides.com/Editor/ —> Online Powerpoint creation site. Its cool as it allows you to even link with pictues, videos from youtube etc., Also to share, save, present online! It is developed on Cappucino, a web app framework.

Forums

One free forum from Nabble is here (Heard thru Jothi Sankar in JavaRanch)

J2EE Web Programming

All Java, No Froth: 6 Easy Steps to MVC Web Apps -> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/java-6-steps-mvc-web-apps/

morewebprogramming notes online is here
MySQL and Netbeans tutorials is at http://www.netbeans.org/kb/60/web/mysql-webapp.html

J2EE Class Loading Demystified, an article from IBM is here http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0112_deboer/deboer.html

All about cookies -> http://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/index.html. Excellent site and worth spending time
Scriptless JSP Pages: The Front Man by Bear Bibeault -> http://www.javaranch.com/journal/200603/Journal200603.jsp#a5
Redirect After Post by //Michael Jouravlev-> http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/content/RedirectAfterPost/article.html

JavaWorld Article entitled, Solve your servlet-based presentation problems ->http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-11-2000/jw-1103-presentation.html

An article from servlets.com, entitled The Problems with JSP —> http://www.servlets.com/soapbox/problems-jsp.html

Ben Souther's sample servlet examples -> http://simple.souther.us/index.html
Ben souther's other sample apps for servlet based (common requirements) -> http://simple.souther.us/not-so-simple.html

Securing Web Applciations, a Netbeans hands on tutorial is here -> http://www.netbeans.org/kb/60/web/security-webapps.html

Adding Charts to Web Applications - through Cewolf is here
- Ulf Dittmer's Reference in his page -> http://www.ulfdittmer.com/code/cewolf.html [through which i got to know]
- Actual SourceForge.net project page is here -> http://cewolf.sourceforge.net/new/index.html

Web Frameworks

Struts
- First Steps with Jakarta Struts - 1 -> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/struts-first-steps/
- First Steps With Jakarta Struts, Part 2 -> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/struts-de-mystified-parts-3-4/
- Complete the MVC Puzzle with Struts -> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/complete-mvc-puzzle-struts/

Spring
Tapestry

Step-by-Step Jakarta Tapestry -> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/jakarta-tapestry/

WebWork
Wicket
Cappucino -> http://cappuccino.org/learn/ based on Objective-J a new languaged which is based on Objective-C
Sproutcore - a Javascript framework -> http://www.sproutcore.com/

zTempalates
- Articles
  - zTemplates, yet another framework? —> http://java.dzone.com/announcements/ztemplates-0992-released
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Google App Engine

* Will Google App Engine support Java? —> http://java.dzone.com/news/will-google-app-engine-ever-su
* What is Google App Engine? —> http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine.html
* Home Page —> http://code.google.com/appengine/
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Yet another!?

SSL

How SSL Works? -> A brief introduction to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Technology -> https://www.securetrust.com/resources/how-ssl-works
How does SSL Work? - Simplified SSL - About Secure Sockets Layer and HTTPS —> http://www.ourshop.com/resources/ssl.html
XADM: How Secure Sockets Layer Works - Microsoft Help and Support -> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/245152
What is Https Protocol?, Know what Https is and how SSL works -> http://www.instantssl.com/ssl-certificate-products/https.html
Transport Layer Security from Wikipedia -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer
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General Computing

An excelleng blog entry with respect to 2,3,n tiers -> http://javaxcross.blogspot.com/2008/03/two-three-n-tier-which-one-should-i.html
About Three Tier, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_tier

JSP

JSP and Excel is discussed here at JavaRanch : http://faq.javaranch.com/java/JspAndExcel
Custom Tags
- Introduction to the Java Standard Tag Library -> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/java-standard-tag-library/
- JSP 2.0 Simple Tags Explained -> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/jsp-2-simple-tags/
- Use Custom Tags to Aggregate RSS Feeds into JSP-Based Web Apps -> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/rss-feeds-jsp-based-web-apps/
- The JSP Files - Parts 1 to 8: Tagged and Bagged -> 8 Articles —> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/parts-1-8-tagged-bagged/

XML

XML Basics from Deitel's website is here
XML Schema ,a good article about XML NameSpaces is here -> http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/srivastava_namespaces.html
Generating XML from Relational Database Tables —> http://xml.sys-con.com/node/46178
XSU — XML-SQL Utility
- From Oracle - XSU Userguide — http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/xml/xdk/doc/production/plsql/doc/plsql/xsu/xsu_userguide.html
- Store and Retrieve XML from Databases with XSU - DevX Article — http://www.devx.com/xml/Article/32046/1954

XSL

DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide is online is here -> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/index.html
A very good tutorial for XSL is here -> http://www.topxml.com/xsl/tutorials/intro/default.asp
XSL Draft is here -> http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-xsl-19980818.html
XSLT - IBM Article is here -> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xslt/?article=xr

XSL With CSS

CSS & XSL from the w3c.org is here -> http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS-vs-XSL
Comparing XSL and CSS is here -> http://www.xml.com/pub/a/1999/01/walsh2.html
Using XSL and CSS together from w3.org is here -> http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-XSL-and-CSS [Excellent one and in detail - as it is from the Originators!:)]

XPath

XPath Evaluator -> http://b-cage.net/code/web/xpath-evaluator.html

Aussie

* http://www.business.nsw.gov.au/migration/
* http://www.migration.wa.gov.au/default.asp
* http://www.liveinvictoria.vic.gov.au/ViewPage.action
* http://immi.com.au [Email Ids: ua.moc.eracimmi|eracimmi#ua.moc.eracimmi|eracimmi, ua.moc.immi|eracimmi#ua.moc.immi|eracimmi]
* Job Link
* Senior JAVA/J2EE Developers —> http://gurus.com.au/23992.aspx
* Senior Java/J2EE Developer - Dynamic Digital Solutions House -> http://gurus.com.au/22520.aspx
* JAVA/J2EE Programmer -> http://gurus.com.au/22027.aspx
* Java / J2EE Development Opportunity -> http://gurus.com.au/23569.aspx
* Cost of Migration in Australia - a discussion in JavaRanch is here -> http://saloon.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=37&t=006975

Apache Http Server

* Apache Desktop Reference ebook is here

Online System Scan (Free PC Scan)

Pending Threads

* JavaRanch -> Initialization Block -> http://saloon.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=24&t=042970
* Find Command -> http://saloon.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=13&t=001839
* SCJP Forum String Concatenation -> http://saloon.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=24&t=042360
* Abstract Class Vs Interfaces, an excellent debate -> http://saloon.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=019331
* Programming Diversions, Online Judge Programming Contest Problems -> http://saloon.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=71&t=000495

IBM WAS Articles & Links

Best Practice for Using Common Application Files is here http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27006159

Avoiding ClassCastExceptions due to Xerces Libraries within Web Modules on WebSphere Application Server is here http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0310_searle/searle.html

Understand classpath and module dependencies is here http://java.boot.by/icad-guide/ch03s03.html

setting websphere studio 5 runtime path a wordpress blog is here http://technobuzz.wordpress.com/2004/11/23/setting-websphere-studio-5-runtime-path/

Developing and Deploying Modular J2EE Applications with WebSphere Studio Application Developer and WebSphere Application Server an article from IBM is here http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0206_robinson/robinson.html

IBM InfoCenter main link -> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ieduasst/v1r1m0/index.jsp

IBM Gathering Information using Collector Tool -> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v6r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.base.doc/info/aes/ae/ttrb_runct.html

WebSphere Application Server V6 Problem Determination for Distributed Platforms is here -> http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246798.html (a collection of pdfs based on several category/nature)

IBM DB2 Articles

DB2 UDB performance tuning scenarios - Series article from IBM
- Part 1 DB2 UDB OLTP tuning illustrated with a Java program is here http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0508chong/
DB2 packages: Concepts, examples, and common problems is here -> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0606chun/

DB2 Articles

DB2 Standards - Database Design - a good article on db design is here http://www.indiana.edu/~dbateam/databases/db2/standards/dbdesign.html
Best practices for tuning DB2 UDB v8.1 and its databases -> IBM article is here

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0404mcarthur/