The Jakarta project consists of many powerful open source tools for the Java platform, but most lack tutorials or clear online help documentation. Apache Jakarta and Beyond is the definitive guide to using Jakarta and other Java open source tools to develop Web applications more efficiently and effectively.

In this example-packed book, readers will find

   - An introduction to the philosophy behind the Jakarta project
   - Details on many ready-to-use Java toolkits, including Ant,
      JUnit, Cactus, Log4J, POI, Tomcat, James, Struts, and more
   - In-depth guidelines on how to develop with multiple
      toolkits
   - A guide to splitting work along lines of "what is available" 
      and "what must be written" 
   - Best practices for development, such as the
      model/view/controller paradigm
   - Numerous examples that can serve as templates for
      readers' own projects

    The accompanying CD-ROM contains templates and complete code examples from the book.

    Whether you are developing client applications, Web applications, or Web services, Apache Jakarta and Beyond
will help you use existing code to simplify the task at hand.

1 Introduction
2 Ant
3 Eclipse
4 Testing with JUnit
5 Testing Web sites with HTTPUnit
6 Further Web testing with Jakarta Cactus
7 Stress testing with Jakarta JMeter
8 Simplifying bean development with BeanUtils
9 Traversing hierarchical data with JXPath
10 Database tools

etc.