Posts Tagged ‘Java’

PeopleSoft PeopleTools

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

book coverPeopleSoft PeopleTools Tips & Techniques, Jim J. Marion, Oracle, 2010

Java programmers can use this book when they extend Oracle’s HRMS. The book gets into some advanced programming. 600 pages.

Apache Struts 2

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Book coverApache Struts 2 Web Application Development Design, Develop, Test, and Deploy Your Web Applications Using the Struts 2 Framework, Dave Newton, Lightning Source, 2009

JUnit in Action

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

book coverJUnit in Action, Petar Tahchiev, Manning, 2010

Modular Java

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

book coverModular Java – Creating Flexible Applications with OSGi and Spring, Craig Walls, Pragmatic, 2009

Java programmers will want to read this, particularly if they are working with Eclipse plugins. OSGi is an improvement on Java’s classes and packages. The Pragmatic people explain it all so well. 240 pages.

Implementing SOA Using Java EE

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

book coverImplementing SOA Using Java EE, B. V. Kumar, Addison-Wesley, 2010

This book is intended for architects of enterprise systems. Unfortunately, it is poorly written and you will do better with any recent Java EE book. 350 pages.

Harnessing Hibernate

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

book coverHarnessing Hibernate, James Elliott, O’Reilly 2008

Java programmers will want to read this. It is dated, but recent enough to include Java Persistence API (JPA) integration. 350 pages.

Dependency Injection

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

book coverDependency Injection : design patterns using Spring and Guice / Dhanji R. Prasanna, Manning, 2009

Java programmers will find this valuable. 300 pages, contents:

  1. – Dependency injection: what’s all the hype?
  2. – Time for injection
  3. – Investigating DI
  4. – Building modular applications
  5. – Scope: a fresh breath of state
  6. – More use cases in scoping
  7. – From birth to death: object lifecycle
  8. – Managing an object’s behavior
  9. – Best practices in code design
  10. – Integrating with third-party frameworks
  11. – Dependency injection in action!

appendix A – The Butterfly Container
appendix B – Smarty Pants for Adobe Flex

Clean Code

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

book coverClean Code : a Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship / Robert C. Martin ; [with] Michael C. Feathers … [et al.], Prentice Hall, 2009

The programming gods have spoken, and this is the way and the light. The example code is in Java, but the rules and practices should be applied where possible to all languages. 400 pages.

JavaServer Faces 2.0

Friday, February 12th, 2010

book coverJavaServer Faces 2.0 : the complete reference / Ed Burns, McGraw-Hill, 2010

A well written book by knowledgeable insiders. 700 pages.

Beginning JSF 2 APIs and JBoss Seam

Friday, February 12th, 2010

book coverBeginning JSF 2 APIs and JBoss Seam / Kent Ka lok Tong, Apress, 2009

This book introduces you to developing web apps using Java Server Faces and the Seam framework. 300 pages.