Resources for Apache Commons

Articles

Articles are listed on the ArticlesAndTutorials page.

Books

There are currently 7 known books on Apache Commons. In order of publication:

• Applied Software Engineering Using Apache Jakarta Commons by Christian Gross (2003-11), Charles River Media.
• Pro Jakarta Commons by Harshad Oak (2004-03), Apress.
• Jakarta Commons Cookbook by Tim O'Brien (2004-11 est), O'Reilly.
• Jakarta Commons by Torsten Curdt, Stefan Edlich, Henrik Hörning, Reidar Hörning, Software & Support Verlag, in German
• Apache Jakarta Commons: Reusable Java™ Components by Will Iversen, Prentice Hall. The code for this book (and links to reviews) can be found at Will's site for the book.
• Jakarta Commons Live by Jonathan Lehr (coming soon), SourceBeat.
• Jakarta Commons in Action by Vikram Goyal, Manning.
  
  

Third Party Resources

• Morph - alpha framework based on ideas from BeanUtils (read comparison to Morph), CommonsConvert and CommonsChain. Also will support functionality in read comparison to Morph] ([http://morph.sourceforge.net/alternatives/jexl.html).
• Mailing list archive - Nabble hosts a combined user/dev archive of the commons' lists. The archvie has a clean UI for cross browsing and also a fast search. Users can search here before posting questions to the mailing lists.