Building Software with Apache Jakarta Commons

New Guide to Building Software with Apache and other Open Source Tools!

Hingham, MA, December 21, 2003: Charles River Media announces Applied 
Software Engineering Using Apache Jakarta Commons, a software 
engineering-based guide to the Apache Jakarta Commons components (e.g., 
Betwixt, Digester, Discovery, Collections), other Apache projects such as 
Ant, the Axis Web Service toolkit, and the popular JUnit framework. The 
book focuses on solutions to complex problems using a simple task-driven 
approach. In this task-driven approach, the idea is to define a generic 
problem, for example Java class instantiation, and then provide solutions 
in multiple contexts, such as Collections-based factories, the Discovery 
package, or even the Launcher package. The book includes a companion CD-ROM 
with samples and source code.

KEY FEATURES
·       Utilizes Apache Jakarta Commons technologies and open source 
technologies to create commercial-quality business applications
·       Source code is available using a liberal license, meaning that 
components can be tweaked and integrated into other projects
·       Features introductory material to Java Generics, which are 
currently being proposed by the Java Standards committee

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Christian Gross (Zurich, Switzerland) has over a decade of experience as a 
software engineer and consultant in the software development industry. His 
specialty is in the development of applications that are network dependent 
(e.g., client/server, distributed processing, Web services, Internet 
technologies). He is a regular conference speaker at Software Development 
and ApacheCon, and has co-authored books for Wrox and APress.


Book Information
ISBN:           1-58450-246-0
MSRP:           $49.95 U.S.   $74.95 Canada
PUB DATE:       November 21, 2003

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