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Even a section on complex numbers.

Awesome piece of work - congratulations!

Should be named 'Apache Java Cookbook'.

The content is a bit dated, the original book was focused on Jakarta Commons (now Apache Commons). I wrote it back when I was convinced that Apache was "The One True Way". Since then I think that it is too limiting to focus the book just on projects withing Apache, but I agree it is currently very biased.

What I want to do with this content (and I hope people will help), it create an open source book that captures more than just commons components.

nice, but can quickly get out of date

Agreed, some of the content in this book is a bit dated. It needs a refresh. If anyone is interested in helping out, here's the source: http://github.com/tobrien/common-java-cookbook/tree/master

Great! Thank you. (A cheatsheet would also be great).

Hello, I wrote this years ago it was called the "Jakarta Commons Cookbook". Instead of writing a Second Edition behind closed doors, I've decided to open up the content and the source. I just opened up the source on GitHub about an hour ago, and I'm starting out with a Creative Commons BY-ND-NC 3.0 license. I asked Codehaus to create a mailing list and a JIRA project. If somoene has any ideas, if someone feels very strongly that it should be under a different license, let me know: >tobrien@discursive.com>

>Here's the post where I talk about opening up the source>



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Ugh, I'm an idiot - I tried to use HTML. Here's that post: http://blog.discursive.com/2009/05/im-opening-up-this-thing-common-java.html

Very nice.

Seems it would be much easier to get outside contributions if you used a wiki.

While wikis have been used profitably to create encyclopedia, I'm not impressed with wikis that accompany most open source projects. There's something about ownership and personality that gets lost in a Wiki, and even the best Wikipedia pages have readability problems. In addition to that, if you look at the inline styling, I'd hate to have to edit that in a Wiki-friendly format that wasn't supported by the publishing pipeline.