Pro Apache Geronimo
Pro Apache Geronimo teaches you all about using Apache Geronimo, the open-source lightweight J2EE/Java EE 5 web application server. Geronimo's GBeans enable you to deploy sophisticated server-side enterprise Java applications and perform special enterprise-level Java development for transactional support. Geronimo is unique in that it's the only open-source lightweight deployment tool around. It also has the capabilities for Spring compliance, so Spring developers can deploy their web applications using Geronimo. Meanwhile, JBoss is the only other significant open-source J2EE container out there. Geronimo, now backed by IBM, is incorporated into IBM's WebSphere Community Edition/Package.
Pro Apache Beehive
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.

