I'm looking at working with a few Java packages for fun things on the side. I want to develop some small Java Servlets running under Tomcat, preferrably using Velocity as the template engine and Cayenne as the database connectivity/persistence layer. We're looking at using the latter at work, so I'm getting a little experience with it. I found a pretty cool article on building a weblogging tool using much of the above (not Cayenne though) at Oreilly's Onjava.com website in this article Building an Open Source J2EE Weblogger. Cool stuff. friends who write me asking "Are you getting my e-mail?" is alarmingly high (I got one this morning), so I need to take care of this.