More from the JavaOne 2006 keynotes&#8230; One of the new key features in Java 6 (Mustang), available now in beta and weekly snapshots and slated for release in October, is support for alternative languages running on the JVM. In particular, Java 6 will ship with support for running JavaScript code as a first-class citizen, with complete [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=54e9d48d3738b3ab6271fb30179d8a2b"/> More info

If you're looking to add Ajax functionality to your JSF applications, the AjaxComponent strategy provides the simplicity of a component and the power of a phase listener. More info

These two open source frameworks combine admirably to make one highly flexible reporting solution. Find out how to leverage iBATIS's data-handling capabilities in your Jasper reports. More info

Messaging provides a way for different parts of an enterprise system to collaborate, without the tight coupling of approaches like RMI and CORBA. Java EE defines the Java Messaging Service (JMS) for creating loosely coupled enterprise systems, and in this article, Deepa Sobhana shows off how to build a JMS-driven application atop GlassFish. More info

Shoal is an open source clustering framework used to provide clustering functionality to GlassFish. But you don't have to use GlassFish, or even be developing EE applications, to benefit from Shoal's JXTA-powered clustering capabilities. In this article, Diego Naya and Juan Pedro Danculovic show how to work directly with the Shoal API. More info

The <a href="http://pia.khe.siemens.com/index_aysystem_home-14834.htm">AySystem</a>: connecting you to anyone or anything &#150; from anywhere in the world and all of the time. Monfred Kobe discusses this new end to end Java solution from Seimens. More info

Three top-notch open source Java application servers compared based on features, deployment, and performance. More info

Pagination is a much-needed feature; one that's harder than it looks. For large datasets, reading all results into memory is impractical, if not dangerous, but only fetching small chunks can make it difficult to apply business logic across all results. Binildas C. A. shows how to combine the database's <code>ROWNUM</code> function with Java SE 5's thread pools to create highly effective pagination. More info

This week's podcast features voices from the first ever Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days. We talked to many of the people presenting poster sessions on Sun Microsystems' Santa Clara campus as well as some of the contestants trying to win one of four SunSPOTs. More info