Professional Jakarta Struts

"When I first started with struts, I read several pieces on the subject, but none of it "jelled" for me...that is up until I read this book."
- Reviewer from Amazon.

Nov 19, 2003 (5 out of 5 stars) - A review from Boston, USA
"It's a great book for beginners and others
This book is really amazing and I have referenced 2,3 other books for struts, but this one is the best. The concept of 'struts' is beautifully explained in a very simple way. I surely recommend this book!"
Reviewer from BookPool.

Java Tools for eXtreme Programming

This book was the #1 best selling Java Book for three months on Amazon.

Review from Dr. Dobb's Journal (April 2002)
"It is ... a pleasure to review ... books that are both original and useful. The first is Richard Hightower and Nicholas Lesiecki's Java Tools for Extreme Programming, which describes five new Open-Source Java programming tools... Java Tools is readable and well organized... As a bonus, the authors show how to use these tools together; for example, how to automate reexecution of JUnit tests using Ant."
-Gregory V. Wilson

Check out the full review at http://www.ercb.com/ddj/2002/ddj.0205.html

Professional Java Tools for Extreme Programming : Ant, XDoclet, JUnit, Cactus, and Maven

June 7, 2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "Seriously, I can't find any other book right now that lays Maven out in such an easy to approach way. All the material online is reference based entirely and my fingers are practically bleeding from digging through google every five seconds. If you've never setup Maven before, buy this book while you still have your hair. "
- Reviewer from Miami

Mastering Resin

"Mastering Resin is a comprehensive guide to Resin 3.x. Particularly valuable is its coverage of advanced capabilities including XTP, Resin’s XSL and JSP formatting system, and Hessian, Resin’s simplified binary Web service protocol."
—Scott Ferguson, Resin Architect, Caucho Technology

Resin 3.x is a leading Java and XML application server with native support for servlets, JSP, EJB, CMP, XML, and Web services.

Mastering Tomcat Development

"Most important, this book recognizes that Tomcat is not used in a vacuum. There are way too many examples to list here, but overall the book does a great job of showing you how to work Tomcat into your complete Java web app development process, and how other Apache tools work in union with Tomcat to give you a complete open source solution. ...

Kudos to the authors! I have faith in computer books again."  Reviewers from Amazon. One of our team members wrote 1/5 of this book.

Python Programming with the Java Class Libraries: A Tutorial for Building Web and Enterprise Applications

"Straightforward, reader accessible text, September 6, 2002

"Python Programming With The Java Class Libraries: A Tutorial For Building Web And Enterprise Applications With Python by Richard Hightower is a practical and completely user-friendly guide to teaching yourself to combine Python programming language with the more widely-used Java. This 'user friendly' tutorial covers everything from Java and Python basics to advanced topics such as using Python and Java Swing to create GUI's, working with SQL and JDBC, applets for Python and Java, and much more. Step-by-step instructions, countless examples, and straightforward, reader accessible text makes (this book) a superb and highly recommended resource for Python and Java programmers from all experience levels and backgrounds. "

"... I'd say that this book demonstrates the absolute basics of a wide range of Jython areas better than anything else I've read so far. It's the sort of book you can pick up, open to the middle of, and start coding quickly ..."

- Reviewers from Amazon