Java Power Tools has a cover

The Java Power Tools book finally has a cover!

One of the interesting quirks about the publishing industry is that the author doesn't have much say in the cover - well, none, actually. At least that was what happened with Java Power Tools. So it was all a bit of a suprise. Some sort of press-drill. I guess I might have preferred a coffee grinder or an old Italian expresso machine, but them's the breaks!

The book itself is coming out on the 27th of March, and comes to 880 pages. For anyone who hasn't been following, it covers a range of open source tools that can help you optimize your development process, including areas such as Build Scripts, Version Control, Continuous Integration, Code Quality Analysis, Unit Testing and Integration Testing, Issue Tracking and Automated Documentation. And, not leastly, how to make these tools work together smoothly.

John is a freelance consultant specialising in Enterprise Java, Web Development, and Open Source technologies, currently based in Wellington, New Zealand. Well known in the Java community for his many published articles, John helps organisations to optimize their Java development processes and infrastructures and provides training and mentoring in open source technologies, SDLC tools, and agile development processes. John is principal consultant at Wakaleo Consulting, and runs several Training Courses on open source Java development tools and best practices. John is a DZone MVB and is not an employee of DZone and has posted 58 posts at DZone. You can read more from them at their website.