Description: September 2002 Issue O ne of the really enjoyable things about participating in the Java community is that many talented individuals come up with clever ways to do new things and then make those ways available to the community as a whole, often providing source code gratis. Just scanning the array of efforts in Apache and the Jakarta project demonstrates what a rich set of tools are available to ease specific software development tasks. Such is the case with Jato, an open source library.
