Guus Bosman

This is a pleasantly written book that gives a nice overview of a number a Java frameworks to build web applications with. Most chapters didn't contain a lot of new information, but the comparison of the actual frameworks was quite useful. I knew Struts, Velocity and WebWork already, but Cocoon and Tapestry were new, as was Internetbeans.

I'd certainly recommend this book for software engineers who would like to know what's 'out there'. Personally I enjoyed Chapter 12.3 the most, in which the author shows how easy it is to upgrade an application to EJBs when there is a clean separation of the various concerns of the application.