Programming Books

Through this book developers will be able to design and deploy Rich Internet Applications using the Flex 3 framework in combination with MXML and ActionScript 3.0. They will also be able to develop efficient and seamless Flex applications to communicate with JSP and process data sent by the server. Java developers will learn about the integration of a Java backend, using BlazeDS 3.2 with Flex. In addition to this, users will be introduced to the various aspects of Flex 3 which include creating custom components, debugging the application in the production environment, using RPC services, styling their applications using external CSS and internationalizing. They will be able to build an end-to-end Flex e-commerce application using all major features of Flex which is covered throughout the book....
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Through this book developers will be able to develop custom intranet systems and applications, using Liferay as a framework. They will also learn to customize Liferay portal using the JSR-286 portlet, extension environment and Struts framework and build their own Social Office with portlets, hooks, and themes and manage their own community. Developers will be able to learn to customize Liferay into a single point of access to all an organization's data, content, web content, and other information from both existing in-house applications (HR, CRM) and external sources (such as Alfresco, FatWire, Magnolia, Vignette). In addtition to this, users will be able to manage communities and pages with locale and tracking features to employ layout templates dynamically....
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Pentaho Reporting 3.5 for Java Developers is new book that helps readers create reports in PDF, Excel and HTML with Pentaho’s Reporting Suite. Using Pentaho Reporting Suite, users will learn to integrate report generation into their existing Java applications and also develop advanced graphs, cross tabs and sub-reports using data source options. Written by Will Gorman, the Engineering Team Lead at Pentaho, this book will also show Java developers how to create dynamic reports with Pentaho Reporting Engine's XML and Java APIs....
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Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation is a new book from Packt Publishing that guides readers to customize, use, and administer websites using the Alfresco CMS platform. Written by a team of four Content Management experts, this book gives users a clear understanding about how to integrate external applications such as Liferay Portal, Adobe Flex, iPhone, iGoogle, and Facebook to meet their Content Management needs. ...
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This is a report of a graduate project. The purpose of this project was to examine whether the use of Java for games is advantageous compared to the current languages of choice, C and C++. This is not an easy question to answer, and as you will see in the report, the answer will depend on several project specific issues. The main target group of the report is professional game programmers with little or no knowledge of Java, who wonder whether Java would be beneficial in future projects. The report generally assumes that the reader is skeptical about Java. The focus of the report is on games intended for retail; not on Java applets. ...
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Through this book developers will be able to design, develop, and test your web applications using the Spring Web Flow 2 framework. They will also learn about the integration of JavaServer Faces (JSF) with Spring Web Flow, and how to organize and manage the storage of data inside their web applications. Java developers will learn about the essential modules of the complete Spring Framework stack, and will be shown how to manage the control flow of a Spring web application. They will be introduced to Spring Faces, Spring JavaScript, and Spring Binding, and will learn how to improve the handling of the web flow. The functioning of the Testing feature, which is an important aspect of the software development process, is covered in this book, thus teaching developers how to go about using it in their Spring applications. In addition to this, users will also be ale to secure their web applications using Spring Security and Spring Web Flow....
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This book helps to learn Aspect-Oriented Programming and its solutions to implementation issues in Object-Oriented Programming. It starts by explaining the AOP features of Spring and then moves ahead with configuring Spring AOP and using its core classes. Users can write clean, manageable code for their Java applications, utilizing the combined power of Spring and AOP. Using AspectJ annotations, Java developers will be able to simplify applying Advices. They will learn to develop a three-layered example web application designed with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and built with Test-Driven Development methodology using the full potential of AOP for security, concurrency, caching, and transactions....
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This book is about developing Java/J2EE applications with a database component in Oracle JDeveloper (version 10.1.3). It covers the practical aspects of JDBC (version 4.0); it will teach application developers about setting the environment for developing various JDBC-based J2EE applications and the procedure to develop JDBC-based J2EE applications. It will also explore the new features added in JDBC 4.0 Data retrieval and storage is one of the most common components of J2EE applications. JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) is the Java API for accessing a SQL relational database and adding, retrieving, and updating data in the database. The book is suitable for Java/J2EE and Oracle JDeveloper beginners. Most J2EE applications have a database component and the book is specially suited for database-based J2EE development in Oracle JDeveloper. Users can also use this book to learn how to utilize the new features offered in JDBC 4.0 for Java/J2EE development....
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Swing Extreme Testing is a practical guide to automated software testing for extreme Java programming using Swing GUIs. This book will teach users how to automatically test user interfaces (Swing GUIs), the help system, internationalization, log files, spreadsheets, email, and web services, how to perform tests involving multiple JVMs, and a host of other things. This book is a practical guide based on the authors’ daily experience developing and maintaining a cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence system. Every chapter comes up with real-life examples and the source code that comes with the book is full of useful (and well-tested) tools. Swing developers who design and develop complex software for user interfaces will find this book useful....
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A new book on the Enterprise JavaBeans server-side component architecture for modular construction of enterprise applications has been published by Packt. The EJB 3 (Enterprise Java Beans version 3) specification is a core component of enterprise-level JEE (Java Platform Enterprise Edition) implementations. This book covers the core elements of EJB 3 technology, exploring them in a concise manner with many supporting examples. Users will gain a thorough understanding of the EJB 3 technology and learn about the most important features of EJB 3. This book is primarily aimed at professional developers who already have a working knowledge of Java. Enterprise architects and designers with a background in Java would also find this book useful. As the new version of EJB is so radically different from the previous version (EJB 2.x), the book is suitable for and should be of interest to those who have had experience working with EJB 2.x...
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The book concentrates on leveraging Java Business Integration (JBI) for addressing real world integration problems with examples. Business level integration in Java needs to address integrating multiple flavors of business components including POJO, EJB, Web Services, JMS, etc. The book explains all the above scenarios, using open source Apache ServiceMix as the ESB framework. This book discusses: • Assemble services and port it across containers using JBI • Expose EJB as WSDL compliant service across firewalls • Bind remote services onto the ESB to be consumed internally • Expose local components in ESB like POJO as WSDL compliant services to be accessible externally. • Provide a web service gateway for external consumers • Access web services over reliable transport channel like JMS • Implement web service versioning using ESB • Implement service aggregation at ESB • Transactions, Security, Clustering & JMS in ESB ...
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This book is a practical step-by-step tutorial for those who want to build contemporary, real-life web applications with Tapestry 5, the Apache open-source framework for creating dynamic, robust, highly scalable web applications in Java. It shows the path of least resistance, so that the reader can learn all the essential skills quickly and easily. To give the reader an initial practical experience, a simple but useful web application is built throughout the chapters....
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JBoss jBPM is a free, open-source, business process management solution. It enables users to create business processes that coordinate people, applications, and services. A business process is a sequence of activities triggered by a certain input that results in a valuable output. Business Process Management is about analyzing those activities in a structured way and eventually supporting their execution with a workflow application. This book shows business analysts how to model business processes in JBoss jBPM and use these models to generate a fully-functioning workflow application. It shows how business analysts can use the tools to build a solution without the need for Java coding expertise. It also introduces more advanced functionality that can be implemented by Java developers in partnership with the BA. This book is a full toolkit for someone who wants to implement BPM in the right way. For more information, please visit http://www.packtpub.com/j boss-jbpm/book ...
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OSWorkflow is an open-source workflow engine written entirely in Java with a flexible approach and a technical user-base target. It is released under the Apache License. You can create simple or complex workflows, depending on your needs. You can focus your work on the business logic and rules. No more Petri Net or finite state machine coding! You can integrate OSWorkflow into your application with a minimum of fuss. OSWorkflow provides all of the workflow constructs that you might encounter in real-life processes, such as steps, conditions, loops, splits, joins, roles, etc. This book explains in detail all the various aspects of OSWorkflow, without assuming any prior knowledge of Business Process Management. Real-life examples are used to clarify concepts. This book gives step-by-step instructions on how to do things. The basics are explained first and then examples help to clarify and reinforce the principles....
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GWT is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language. What you will learn from this book? -Plan your ECM installation, implement it, and customize it. -Set up an elegant GWT development environment in Eclipse -Create, test, debug and deploy GWT applications -Develop custom widgets – examples include a calendar and weather forecast widget -Internationalize your GWT applications -Create complex interfaces using grids, moveable elements, and more -Integrate GWT with Rico, Moo.fx and Script.aculo.us to create even more attractive UIs using JSNI. Click here for more details: http://www.packtpub.com/g oogle-web-toolkit-GWT-Jav a-AJAX/book ...
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“The Alfresco Enterprise Content Management Implementation” book is a complete guide to implementing enterprise content management into business using Alfresco. This book describes the complete cycle of planning, implementing and customizing ECM installation. Alfresco is regarded as the most powerful open-source enterprise content management system.Alfresco Enterprise Content Management Implementation" explains users about creating smart, collaborative content repositories, and shows how to use Alfresco to create more elegant document sharing, better collaborative working, and reliable automated workflow processes. The Alfresco book is designed for system administrators, experienced users or developers who want to install and use Alfresco in their teams or businesses. The book assumes a degree of technical confidence but does not require specialist sysadmin or developer skills to get a basic system up and running. ...
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Ten practical real-world case studies combining business process management and web services orchestration : -Real-world BPEL recipes for SOA integration and Composite Application development -Combining business process management and web services orchestration -Techniques and best practices with downloadable code samples from ten real-world case studies Who this book is written for? This book is aimed at architects and developers building applications in Service Oriented Architecture. The book presumes knowledge of BPEL, SOA, XML, web services, and multi-tier architectures....
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A practical guide to creating and managing your own website with this proven Java/JSP based content management system. This book takes you through the process of creating content rich websites and applications using OpenCms. Although powerful and flexible, OpenCms can be daunting on first approach, but its advanced features reward the investment in learning. This book does not cover extending the operations of OpenCms with Java development. The focus is on OpenCms as a complete CMS platform in itself. It does use some JSP for extensions where required. This book covers -Installing OpenCms, and its basic concepts -Using the OpenCms Workplace to manage and publish your content -Managing projects, user accounts, databases, and modules -Working with the VFS and search -Understanding and using tasks and workflows -Working with templates and the OpenCms Tag Library. ...
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Beginning Java 2 has a detailed introduction to the Java Foundation Classes (JFC), a vast set of graphics functionality including Java2D and Swing, which makes developing windowed applications much easier. It also covers the new Collections API, a bunch of container classes for representing and handling other Java objects, and has up-to-date coverage of threads, serialization and JDBC 2.0. The revised edition of the best-selling introductory Java book Beginning Java has been thoroughly updated for the Java 2 platform and the JDK 1.2 release. The book still teaches Java from scratch, assuming only basic programming know-how and in a tutorial format, but it now takes a slightly different route through the Java class libraries....
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An overview of the new server-side Java platform - Java 2 Enterprise Edition - as it relates to building n-tier web applications. It covers the building blocks (Servlets, JSP, EJB, JDBC, RMI, JNDI, CORBA) then goes into special design considerations for server side programming, (including resource pooling and component based design) before finally discussing future design possibilities opened up by Jini and JavaSpaces technology....
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