You know how you’ve never heard of something and then over a short period of time you see or hear references to that thing you’ve never heard of and you start to get the feeling that it’s something you should look at? I’m having that feeling about two things right now. One is Maven from the great folks at the Apache Jakarta project. The other is WebWork from OpenSymphony. I know that Maven is some sort of build tool, they refer to it as a “Java project management and project comprehension tool” whatever that means. WebWork is an MVC-ish framework for building websites, similar to Struts from what I can tell.

Over the past several weeks, both of these keep coming up. I need to spend some time investigating.