Juggle Your Java with JDistro (O'Reilly)
Howard Wen
examines the JDistro project on O'Reilly.
"
Appropriately enough, running multiple Java applications at once can be akin to drinking too much coffee in one sitting: You get erratic results and ultimately crash hard. But having more than one Java program running can be helpful for development. Java programmer Guillaume Desnoix wanted such a robust environment, so he created his own: JDistro."