worth checking out the new classes

Amazing, the amount of high quality and free software you can get. The latest example is how the open source movement has put together a set of advanced Java classes, that go beyond what the default J2SE SDK gives you. Iverson breaks the Commons offerings into various groupings and explains simple usages of these.

Some classes are of quite general utility. As in the Collections, that expand on the Java 2 Collections Framework. The latter is often indispensible for a lot of programming needs. If that describes your situation, the Commons Collections may be worth looking at. The Logging classes should also prove generally useful.

Most Commons classes, however, may be more specialised. Those dealing with database connection pooling, for instance. Which is not to say that these and others like them are not useful. Far from it. Just that the needs are specialised. Still, it is probably also worth your while to scan these Commons classes, on the chance that serendipity strikes.

Overall, the Commons project is encouraging. More buildout is needed, though.

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