Pro Jakarta Commons [Paperback]

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.

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

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 lCÍ