Book: Apache Jakarta and Beyond

Book: Apache Jakarta and Beyond - A Java programmer's introduction. By Larne Pekowsky. ISBN 0-321-23771-4 QA76.73.J38P44 2004. 2005.

This book introduces a series of Jakarta tools to be used by Java programmers. Including:

- Ant
- Eclipse
- Testing with JUnit
- Testing web sites with HTTPUnit
- Further web testing with Jakarta Cactus
- Stress Testing with Jakarta JMeter
- Simplifying Bean Development with BeanUtils
- Traversing Hierarchical Data with JXPath
- Database tools: 
  Hsqldb, DBCP, OJB
- Logging
  - Java.util.logging
  - Log4j
- Configuring program options
  - Jakarta CLI (Command-Line Interface)
  - Jakarta Digester (XML-based: object stack, element matching patterns, processing rules)
- Working with Text 1: Regular Expressions
- Working with Text 2: Searching  
- Creating office documents with POI
- Scripting
- Tomcat
- The standard tag library
- Struts: application toolkit/web application framework
- Cocoon: provides a complete XML-based publishing suite, for the generation, manipulation and rendering of XML.