Six Seconds, the EQ organization
"Six Seconds is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing emotional intelligence into practice in schools, families, organizations, and communities."

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Programming

Agile Modeling
"Agile Modeling (AM) is a practice-based methodology for effective modeling and documentation of software-based systems."

Apache Jakarta Project
"The Jakarta Project creates and maintains open source solutions on the Java platform for distribution to the public at no charge."  A couple of the most well-known projects are the Ant build tool, the Struts M-V-C framework, and the Tomcat servlet/web application container.

Apache XML Project
"xml.apache.org is a collaborative software development project dedicated to providing robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely available XML support on a wide variety of platforms."

ArgoUML
A Java-based, open source, cognitive UML modeling tool.

Artima.com - a resource for Java, J2EE, and Jini developers
A community site created and maintained by Bill Venners.

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) for Java
An open source project that adds aspect-oriented programming features to the Java language - maintained by the Eclipse project.

The Castor Project
"Castor is an open source data binding framework for Java. It's basically the shortest path between Java objects, XML documents, SQL tables and LDAP directories."

Eclipse Universal Tool Platform
An open source "universal" IDE with original contributions from IBM.

IBM alphaWorks
Very useful site that focuses on research into emerging technologies.  Many alphaWorks projects have graduated to open source projects.

IBM developerWorks
Resource with several "technology zones".

JavaWorld's Jiniology Column
Periodic JavaWorld column focusing on Sun's distributed systems programming framework.

JEOPS - The Java Embedded Object Production System
A powerful, open source, Java-based rule engine.

Jini.org
"The community resource for Jini technology."

Jini.org - Rio Project
"The Rio architecture provides a component model that removes the complexity surrounding Jini service development and deployment."

JUnit
"JUnit is a regression testing framework written by Erich Gamma and Kent Beck."

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Web Services

Amazon.com Web Services
"To help stimulate Web service innovation, we now offer software developers the opportunity to integrate Amazon.com features and content directly into other Web sites using either SOAP or XML over HTTP."

Google Web APIs
"With the Google Web APIs service, software developers can query more than 2 billion web documents directly from their own computer programs."

UDDI.org
"The project creates a platform-independent, open framework for describing services, discovering businesses, and integrating business services using the Internet, as well as an operational registry that is available today."  Maintained by OASIS.

UDDI4J at IBM
"UDDI4J is a [open source] Java class library that provides an API to interact with a UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) registry."

UDDI4J.org
The community site for the Java class library originally developed by IBM.

WebServices.Org
The community site for all things related to web services.

WSDL4J at IBM
The Java reference implementation for WSDL.

XMethods utility services
"This site is a 'virtual laboratory' for developers, listing  publicly available web services and showcasing new ways this technology can be applied."

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