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Book Review:Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java

If you're an experienced Java developer, or a new Groovy developer, who is interested in using Groovy in everyday Java development, this book is for you. The author in this book says and...

2 replies - 2024 views - 04/01/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews

Java EE 5

If this text was not intended as a textbook, it should have been. It reads like the best kind of textbook - clear, concise coverage of major issues; excellent working examples; a well-developed...

0 replies - 282 views - 03/30/08 by David Sills in Book Reviews

Core JavaServer Faces (2nd Ed)

This book is for Java programmers that want to learn about this fairly new Java standard: JSF. I would say knowledge of Java and HTML/JavaScript is preferred, but not required.

0 replies - 457 views - 03/25/08 by Stanley Kubasek in Book Reviews

Beginning Spring 2

Unlike a much weightier and much more detailed Spring in Action by Craig Walls, Beginning Spring 2 sets more modest goals - to introduce the reader to the process of designing and building...

0 replies - 2995 views - 03/17/08 by Michael Smolyak in Book Reviews

Head First Software Development

The goal of this book is to help project teams to deliver good quality software on time and on budget.If you have just started software development, or even fresh out of college as a software...

1 replies - 2697 views - 03/06/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews

Head First PMP: A Brain-Friendly Guide to Passing the Project Management Professional Exam

The main goal of the book is helping the reader to pass on the PMP exam, so it covers everything the PMBOK guide covers, but it does this using an easier language, examples, exercises, lots of...

0 replies - 1646 views - 03/05/08 by Cicero Zandoná in Book Reviews

Checking Java Programs

This Short Cut tells you about tools that will improve the quality of your Java code, using checking above and beyond what the standard tools do, including: Using javac options, JUnit and...

0 replies - 3292 views - 03/04/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews

EJB 3 in Action

Having already read, reviewed and worked out the samples earlier from two other books on EJB 3.0 (Beginning EJB3 Application Development: From Novice to Professional and Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, 5th...

1 replies - 3659 views - 03/03/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews

Java/J2EE Job Interview Companion

I have read several technical books over the last few years, but this one was entirely different. The questions and answers format was something which I had not seen in any other book and wasn't...

7 replies - 4741 views - 02/29/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews

Beginning Java SE 6 Platform: From Novice to Professional

This book introduces you to Java SE 6. It is not for newbies to Java, but those who want to know what this particular release provides. If you want more than release notes, if you want to know...

0 replies - 2978 views - 01/25/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in Book Reviews

Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects

The author's stated purpose is to describe "what you can achieve by harnessing Ruby and Java together, creating useful Rails applications, and deploying them with tools that just aren't...

1 replies - 2040 views - 01/25/08 by Matt Stine in Book Reviews

SOA Security

The purpose of SOA Security is really not to cover Java, XML, SOAP, or web services: that much is assumed (though an all-too-brief-to-be-useful introduction takes up Chapter 2). The purpose is to...

0 replies - 672 views - 01/10/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews

Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans Platform

This text is intended for readers who mean to write modules to extend the NetBeans platform or to use the platform as the basis for a standalone application. NetBeans is well suited for such usages,...

1 replies - 629 views - 09/10/07 by Matthew Schmidt in Book Reviews