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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 Commonsso 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.
About the author
Harshad Oak has been involved with J2EE projects for several years. He holds a master's degree in computer management and is both a Sun Certified Java Programmer and a Sun Certified Web Component Developer. Harshad has worked primarily with JSP, Servlet, EJB, and web publishing frameworks, while using a range of modeling and middleware tools along the way. The projects he has worked with have been in the payment solutions and insurance industries.
Summary
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.
