Java developers

Probably not due to compilation issues, but...

I would *love* to be able to specify a snippet of code dynamically, sort of like the eval() function in JavaScript.

Is this possible?

Also - I thought I remembered there being tools to translate XML directly into Java classes. Does anyone remember where that is?

I hope this isn't too broad a question....does anyone know about the help files in Visual Age for Java 3.5? I know this version is no longer supported but I am still using it at work. Suddenly whenever I click on anything under help in the menu, I get nothing. Has anyone else ever had this problem or know how to fix?

Thanks!
Kathy

Thanks for all the great replies on the last topic. As I said, moving to a modular-page-design (portal) type technology is a very management-driven goal...

To get there, we'd pretty much have to move more fully to a MVC model, I think. The currently implemented solution uses a proprietary template system similar to JSP; it predates JSP by a bit, however, and probably needs to go. There's no real separation between the Model and Controller, unfortunately. Struts/JSP comes to mind, mainly because that's what I'm vaguely familiar with. It seems that there's a few technologies to replace both Struts and JSP, but none seem to point out any reasons that they're *better*. I'm using Tomcat 4.x, if that matters at all.

Any technologies I should look at besides JSP when moving more towards MVC? Besides Struts?