If you want exposure to the new open source lightweight SOA-driven Apache Beehive framework project, then pick up Pro Apache Beehive, the first book on this MVC Web framework, which is increasingly gaining interest in the Eclipse community through Eclipse Pollinate. Author Kunal Mittal addresses specific Beehive topics such as page flows, controls, JSR 181 web services, XMLBeans and more.

This book proceeds to describe how these technologies are used in WebLogic Workshop, and how other IDEs are extending support for these technologies. Mittal also compares PageFlows in Workshop to the Standard.

Srini Kanchanavally is a software architect with Coreobjects Software Inc. in Los Angeles. He has in-depth understanding of Java and J2EE. He also has vast experience designing large-scale J2EE application architectures. Srini has worked with Java, J2EE, Struts, WebLogic, and WebLogic Portal on client projects. And he has several years of experience working with various open source frameworks and tools like JBoss/Tomcat, MYSQL, JUnit, and HTTPUnit.