Some tutorials (in ffrench only... sorry folks...) mostly upon the Java world :
Two tutorials that cover Castor (a XML/Object mapping API) :
- Zi Youltimayte Castor gaïde ! : How-to use castor to get a personalized perfect Java <-> XML mapping
- Zi Youltimayte Castor gaïde 2, Zi automatizaïcheun ! : How-to let castor do everything for you !
A tutorial upon Torque (a concurrent for Hibernate) :
- Zi Youltimayte Torque gaïde !
: How-to use torque for JDBC database. Torque is simplier than hibernate and is enough for most project.
One day I'll publish my step by step Java tutorial... One day...