with hmod using mysql, it was fairly simple to make a php form that would automatically add people to the whitelist. Is there any way we could get a similar result in bukkit? Seems bukkit won't be using mysql...
mysql can be used in plugins, but I'm not sure about this because I've never used it, never had a purpose to.
The built-in whitelist is a plaintext file of one name per line, so this would be almost trivial to create; all it would have to do is read the file, check that the name is not already in there, add it, write back out again, and if the server is running send a /whitelist reload command to it.