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.
  

An important part of the books and articles from the community's point of view, is which versions of the components they cover. Hopefully we can outline these here.

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.