Pro Jakarta Commons

"The author does a great job of surveying the Jakarta Commons components and showing how each solves real problems. An enjoyable read with lots of easy to understand examples."
--Floyd Marinescu, creator of TheServerSide.com and author of EJB Design Patterns

This book takes the most stable, popular, and useful sub-projects that form Jakarta Commons and provides much needed documentation and usage information on how best to incorporate them into Java applications.

Jakarta Commons are easily reusable components that can be quickly put to good use in any server-side Java development undertaken. The components are not big applications but sleek little bits of code that do a definite task very well. They might extend the core functionality of the Java language (the Lang sub-project), they might provide a Validation framework (Validator), a database connection pool (Pool) or even the means to easily manipulate XML and JavaBeans in a more intuitive and pragmatic fashion.

"From Lang to Net, BeanUtils to Collections, this book provides a real way in to the breadth and depth of Jakarta Commons. The many examples and step-by-step guides should help everyone get the best from these libraries."
--Stephen Colebourne, committer at Jakarta Commons and creator of Joda open-source libraries

"This book is by far the best resource available on Jakarta Commons and covers the subject matter clearly."
--James McGovern, coauthor of the best-selling book A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture

Contents：

Chapter 1 Introducing Jakarta Commons: The Uncommon Commons
Chapter 2 Using the Lang Component
Chapter 3 Using the Logging Component
Chapter 4 Using the Validator Component
Chapter 5 Using the BeanUtils Component
Chapter 6 Implementing Pooling
Chapter 7 Using the Digester Component
Chapter 8 Using Collections and Primitives
Chapter 9 Using HttpClient and FileUpload
Chapter 10 Using the Net Component
Chapter 11 Using Other Commons Components