(P)Reviewing Jakarta Commons in Action

An article by Glen    No Comments

I’m doing a review of a new Manning Book called “Jakarta Commons in Action” and it is one sensational piece of work. This is the ultimate missing manual to the Commons suite, and there is stacks to learn here, even if you’ve used a few of the commons suite in your projects.

What I *love* about this book is not just the content but also the writing style. All of the examples I’ve seen are first class – the way they deal with JMX and Commons-Modeller would be worth the price of the book for me. I finally have some sense of how Dynamic MBeans work!

There’s plenty of reference tables in there, but the book’s not about that. It really is an “In Action” title, with a style that tells you about the concepts, then how it’s implemented, and then here’s some ways you can use it.

I’ve only reviewed about five chapters so far, but if the rest of this title is the same standard (and so far it’s been remarkably consistent across the board), then this will be title you’ll want to add to your collection when it eventually hits the shelves. Great stuff!