This is a review of the the book JBoss in Action by Javid Jamae and Peter Johnson. The last time I looked at JBoss was about 2 years ago when our team was evaluating migrating our in house DAM application to the platform. We looked at JBoss mainly due to its integrated JGroups distributed caching … Continue reading Book Review: JBoss in Action
Tag: Java
Review: Java Persistence with Hibernate
This is a review of "Java Persistence with Hibernate" by Christian Bauer and Gavin King This is the second Manning book on Hibernate to find a place on my bookshelf. The first one being the older 1st edition of "Hibernate in Action", however this book is a revised edition of the 1st edition and takes … Continue reading Review: Java Persistence with Hibernate
Review: Spring in Action
This is a review for "Spring in Action" 2nd Edition by Craig Walls Spring in Action covers 2.0. The book is excellent and walks the reader through the basics of IoC, bean injection, AOP and then on to virtually every major component of this framework. For the database side of things, they cover basic JDBC … Continue reading Review: Spring in Action
Review: Interface Oriented Design
This is a review of "Interface Oriented Design" by Ken Pugh. I don't have a ton to say about this book, it was a fairly quick read at about 200 pages. If you have a lot of experience with OO, the concepts presented within it are nothing that startling, however they may serve the reader … Continue reading Review: Interface Oriented Design
Revew: The Definitive Guide to Terracotta
This is a review for the book "The Definitive Guide to Terracotta" by Terracotta, Inc. For several years I had known about Terracotta when the software was still closed source, and generally did not give it a look. Once Terracotta became open source my interest rose and I wanted to give it a look over … Continue reading Revew: The Definitive Guide to Terracotta
Review: Pro Ajax and Java Frameworks
This is a review of "Pro Ajax and Java Frameworks" by Nate Schutta and Ryan Asleson This book was written in 2006 and is targeting client side developers who want to add Ajax to their Java backed applications. The book tends to cater more towards an audience who likely wants an overview of various Ajax … Continue reading Review: Pro Ajax and Java Frameworks
Review: Practices of an Agile Developer
First off, this is my first book review! I have a ton of books and always enjoy reading new ones to keep up on the latest in technology. Since recently starting up this blog I figured I would start reviewing them as well. Please note that in these reviews you will not find any nitpicking … Continue reading Review: Practices of an Agile Developer
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