Help with Software and Concepts

[edit] Software

Packages, Libraries, Tools, Frameworks

Alfresco Enterprise Content Manager
Ant Configuration Manager
Bouncy Castle cryptography API and implementations for Java
Clover ETL extract/transformation/load for J2EE projects
CTL a transformation scripting language
Cygwin package distributions system of Unix like Open Source utilities for Windows
git a distributed version control system
GnuPG open source implementation of OpenPG
DbVisualizer universal JDBC database tool
Eclipse Development Platform and popular IDE including lot's for Java programmers
Eclipse Plugins you can't do without
Emacs Text Editor
Fink opensource package installer for MacOSX
Hibernate object-relational mapping framework for Java
IntelliJ another popular Java and Ruby IDE
Luntbuild tool for setting up an automated nightly build
Maven a software project management tool
Maven Q plug-in for management of Maven projects from Eclipse
Mercurial another distributed revision control system
Oxygen XML Editor
Rubygems package manager for Ruby
RubyOnRails a popular Ruby based web application framework
SpringFramework to assist in many different aspects of Java enterprise development
Spring Web Services web services framework
Subclipse a Subversion client plug-in for Eclipse
Subversion version control system
XMLBeans for binding XML to Java objects
yum distributed package management system for Linux

Including information about open standards and those annoying 3-4 letter acronyms.