1. IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal
IBM, as you might imagine, has a lot of very useful WebSphere related information. But one place you should visit without hesitation is the IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal. Not only will you find a number of exceptionally interesting articles by IBM experts, but you'll also find PDF back issues going back at least a year.

2. The Global WebSphere Community
You're not alone, you know. There are a lot of users just like you, and many participate in WebSphere user groups. The Global WebSphere Community, at http://www.websphere.org, lists all of those groups, as well as other resources for business partners and IT professionals. The site is currently being redesigned, and while the current site looks good, the new site is even better. By the way, if you happen to also be using Rational or Tivoli products, the folks who manage WebSphere.org also manage user groups lists for those products as well.

3. WebSphere Professional Magazine
Ah, competitors. Where would life be without healthy, fun competitors? One of WebSpherePower's competitors is the fine WebSphere Professional site, which is part of e-Pro magazine, located at http://www.webspherepro.com. When you're done reading the great articles here at WebSpherePower, take a visit to WebSphere Professional and read some more great articles.

4. WebSphere Advisor Magazine
Another one of our favorite competitors are the folks at Advisor Publications. These guys are awesome, and produce the very well-respected WebSphereAdvisor Magazine, located at http://websphereadvisor.com. In addition to their magazine, they also are running some very pretty hot seminars, their DevCon programs. The next DevCon is in Las Vegas, so go have some fun!

5. WebSphere Central
WebSphere Central, at http://www.webspherecentral.com, is a site that looked like it had some steam for a while, and somewhere along the line lost some of its momentum. It doesn't look like it's seen much updating in the last half of 2003. That said, there are some useful presentations, tutorials, and downloads that can be mined from the site. Hopefully Bill Hahn, the guy who manages the site, will get his mojo back!

6. WSfocus.com
Another site with buried treasure is WSfocus.com, at http://www.wsfocus.com. This site seems to be a links directory, but doesn't seem to have much editorial oversight, so vendors have stuck their links in any category that seemed to make them happy. As a result, if you're going to find anything useful, you're going to have to poke around. A lot. Even though the links directories are poorly managed, there are some interesting resources, so we'd encourage you to take a look.

7. The Eclipse Project
On Feb 2, 2004 the Eclipse Board of Stewards announced Eclipse's reorganization into a not-for-profit corporation. Originally a consortium that formed when IBM released the Eclipse Platform into Open Source, Eclipse became an independent body that will drive the platform's evolution to benefit the providers of software development offerings and end-users.

The Eclipse Project is an open source software development project dedicated to providing a robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, industry platform for the development of highly integrated tools. The mission of the Eclipse Project is to adapt and evolve the eclipse technology to meet the needs of the eclipse tool building community and its users, so that the vision of eclipse as an industry platform is realized.

Since much of WebSphere uses the Eclipse platform, http://www.eclipse.org is a must-visit site for any WebSphere professional.

8. Smart Data Processing's WebSphere FAQ
We've been poking around, looking for that all-encompassing FAQ for WebSphere. Frankly, we haven't found one yet. That said, Smart Data Processing's WebSphere FAQ is small, but basic. What we like about it is that on one page, the FAQ explains in simple terms what WebSphere is, and what the parts are. If you're trying to explain to management just what the heck you're dealing with, point your browser to http://www.smartdataprocessing.com/websphere-faq.html.

9. The IBM.Software.WebSphere newsgroup
One of the most active WebSphere communities we've found has been the ibm.software.websphere newsgroups. Located at news://ibm.software.websphere or (via Google) http://groups.google.com/groups?group=ibm.software.websphere, there are a whole bunch of subsidiary newsgroups, all with very active participants.

10. WebSphere World
Finally, there's WebSphere World, a slashdot-style community and discussion forum site located at http://www.websphere-world.com. Like most community-driven sites, you're going to have to do some digging, but there's some very useful information to be found here.