A Dynamic MVC Development Approach Using Java 6 Scripting, Groovy, and WebLEAF by Daniel López -- You've probably heard the benefits of scripting languages in Java SE 6, but have you thought about how to put them to use? In this article, Daniel López shows how to use Groovy for the business logic of a fully MVC web app, swapping around view frameworks to prove its flexibility.

JAX-WS Web Services Without Java EE Containers by Young Yang -- Web services seem like they should be an enterprise topic, yet JAX-WS 2.0 is part of Java SE, not EE. One of the upshots of this is that you can create web services without needing a full-blown Java EE container. Young Yang shows how this works in practice.