JPackage Project has two primary goals: * To provide a coherent set of Java software packages for Linux, satisfying all quality requirements of other applications. * To establish an efficient and robust policy for Java software installation.
MG4J (Managing Gigabytes for Java) is a free full-text indexing system for large document collections written in Java. As a by-product, it offers several general-purpose optimised classes, including fast & compact mutable strings, bit-level I/O, fast unsy
Those were the days... I bought the printed book, for 1.0 or 1.1. Now there's an update for Tiger, and there's still some interesting stuff in it (e.g. self defined Collection classes etc.).