Book Description Anyone who is writing Java code should be interested in the Jakarta Commons and anyone who is interested in Jakarta Commons should have a copy of this book — Thomas Paul, JavaRanch Sheriff The author does a great job of surveying the Jakarta Commons components and showing how each solves real problems An enjoyable read with lots овънд of easy to understand examples — Floyd Marinescu, creator of TheServerSide com and author of EJB Design Patterns Jakarta Commons are easily reusable components that can quickly be put to good use in any server-side Java development undertaking In fact, components are not big applications, but sleek code bits that perform specific tasks very well This book provides much-needed documentation and usage information about the popular sub-projects forming Jakarta Commons&emdash;so that you can efficiently incorporate them into Java applications Jakarta Commons have potential to extend the core functionality of the Java language (the Lang sub-project), and they can provide a Validation framework (Validator) and a database connection pool (Pool) Jakarta Commons can even 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 ArchitectureDownload Description 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.  Blanche2004 г 304 стр ISBN 1590592832.