Java Extreme Programming Cookbook Review

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Book:		Java Extreme Programming Cookbook
Subject:		Java Extreme Programming Cookbook Review
Date:		2003-06-30 14:38:51
From:		Mitch Lowry from the Columbia Java Users Group

Rating: Instead of digging through the documentation of your open-source tool, take a look at this book. The first two chapters give an overview of extreme programming (XP), but the rest of the chapters are focused on the tools of XP. Each of the chapters on the tools begin with a brief description of the tool (and I mean brief). The rest of the chapter is sub divided into sections. Within each section, a problem that one might encounter with the tool is introduced, then a solution is proposed and discussion of the solutions follows (with an example). The tools covered are Ant, Junit, HttpUnit, Mock Objects, Cactus, JunitPerf and Xdoclet. Tomcat and JBoss are addressed in a chapter together. Because of the brevity and focus of the book, probably not everything that you want to know about a tool is mentioned. After you already know why and when to use a tool, this book can help with the how. The book is a good reference tool and could save someone a lot of time, but look elsewhere for more in-depth explanations.