Apress and Friends of ED Debut Four New Books at JavaOne 2008
Apress, Inc. (http://apress.com) and its partner, friends of ED (http://friendsofed.com/), unveil four new books at the 2008 JavaOne Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.
Berkeley, CA, May 10, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Google Web Toolkit (GWT), a Java-based Ajax web application development framework, has been attracting immense interest over recent months; it’s clear from the number of new GWT applications and thriving community that its current popularity abounds.
In response to interest in GWT, Apress announces the release of Pro Web 2.0 Application Development with GWT by Jeff Dwyer (ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-985-3) at JavaOne 2008. Readers experience a full tour of a modern Web 2.0 startup’s codebase. That’s 15,000 lines of source code that includes everything from Google Gears integration to Acegi OpenID, Lucene full-text search, and Google Maps, all of it integrated with GWT 1.5. Leveraging this book’s available source code, developers get the nitty-gritty details of how to merge together a modern Web 2.0 application stack including Hibernate, Spring, Spring MVC 2.5, SiteMesh, and Freemarker.
Another open source Java-based Google project, Google Guice, is gaining popularity. Guice (pronounced “Juice”) is the Jolt Award winning, 100% Java icing on the cake of Java dependency injection. Unlike other popular DI frameworks such as Spring, Guice fully embraces modern Java language features and combines simplicity with stunning performance and developer friendliness.
Apress brings JavaOne 2008 attendees to the cutting edge with firstPress book Google Guice: Agile Lightweight Dependency Injection Framework (ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-997-6), the first and only book on Guice, written by Guice committer Robbie Vanbrabant and reviewed by Bob Lee, Guice founder. Developers learn simple annotation-driven dependency injection, scoping, AOP, concepts to be included in next Java SE/EE releases, and code without any XML.
Development with Java today often blends and integrates with non-Java web applications and code behind those applications using the Rails framework, for example.
As part of Apress’s commitment to offering an agile, blended approach to Java development, Practical REST on Rails 2 Projects by Ben Scofield (ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-994-5) is launching at JavaOne 2008. The first and only book on REST in the latest version of the Rails web framework, Rails 2, it is intended for intermediate-to-advanced Rails developers—people who use Rails regularly for sites and applications more complicated than the prototypical “roll-your-own” blog. In particular, it’s targeted at Rails developers who want to be good Web 2.0 citizens—sharing the functionality of their app with other sites to the betterment of everyone. Projects include applications for iPhone, Facebook, and REST for the enterprise.
It’s becoming clear that web applications no longer need be powered by any one individual’s data, and they don’t need to be confined to the desktop. Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) makes it simple to bring previously web-only applications to the desktop, allowing them to run alongside traditional applications on an end user’s computer. friends of ED announces a new book in acknowledgment of this:
Creating Mashups with Adobe Flex and AIR by John Crosby, David Hassoun, and Chris Korhonen (ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-936-5) shows RIA (Rich Internet Application) and web developers how to create mashup applications from the vast array of web services, feeds, and APIs available using Adobe Flash and Flex together with HTML and JavaScript (Ajax). For example, developers learn how their desktop applications interact with online services such as Flickr for photo sharing and Amazon S3 for enterprise-level data storage; embrace technologies such as OpenID; create abstract visualizations based on music sourced from Last.fm; consume Twitter content via RSS; use the Flash-native data format SWX along with PHP to create a Yahoo! weather widget; and much more.
Apress, Inc., based in Berkeley, California, is dedicated to meeting the needs of IT professionals. Apress publishes books of the highest quality and has compiled a team of authors that reads like a veritable “Who’s Who” of the high-tech industry. Find out more: www.apress.com
For more information, press copies or to arrange an interview with an Apress author, please contact: Stephanie Parker stephanie.parker@apress.com
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In response to interest in GWT, Apress announces the release of Pro Web 2.0 Application Development with GWT by Jeff Dwyer (ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-985-3) at JavaOne 2008. Readers experience a full tour of a modern Web 2.0 startup’s codebase. That’s 15,000 lines of source code that includes everything from Google Gears integration to Acegi OpenID, Lucene full-text search, and Google Maps, all of it integrated with GWT 1.5. Leveraging this book’s available source code, developers get the nitty-gritty details of how to merge together a modern Web 2.0 application stack including Hibernate, Spring, Spring MVC 2.5, SiteMesh, and Freemarker.
Another open source Java-based Google project, Google Guice, is gaining popularity. Guice (pronounced “Juice”) is the Jolt Award winning, 100% Java icing on the cake of Java dependency injection. Unlike other popular DI frameworks such as Spring, Guice fully embraces modern Java language features and combines simplicity with stunning performance and developer friendliness.
Apress brings JavaOne 2008 attendees to the cutting edge with firstPress book Google Guice: Agile Lightweight Dependency Injection Framework (ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-997-6), the first and only book on Guice, written by Guice committer Robbie Vanbrabant and reviewed by Bob Lee, Guice founder. Developers learn simple annotation-driven dependency injection, scoping, AOP, concepts to be included in next Java SE/EE releases, and code without any XML.
Development with Java today often blends and integrates with non-Java web applications and code behind those applications using the Rails framework, for example.
As part of Apress’s commitment to offering an agile, blended approach to Java development, Practical REST on Rails 2 Projects by Ben Scofield (ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-994-5) is launching at JavaOne 2008. The first and only book on REST in the latest version of the Rails web framework, Rails 2, it is intended for intermediate-to-advanced Rails developers—people who use Rails regularly for sites and applications more complicated than the prototypical “roll-your-own” blog. In particular, it’s targeted at Rails developers who want to be good Web 2.0 citizens—sharing the functionality of their app with other sites to the betterment of everyone. Projects include applications for iPhone, Facebook, and REST for the enterprise.
It’s becoming clear that web applications no longer need be powered by any one individual’s data, and they don’t need to be confined to the desktop. Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) makes it simple to bring previously web-only applications to the desktop, allowing them to run alongside traditional applications on an end user’s computer. friends of ED announces a new book in acknowledgment of this:
Creating Mashups with Adobe Flex and AIR by John Crosby, David Hassoun, and Chris Korhonen (ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-936-5) shows RIA (Rich Internet Application) and web developers how to create mashup applications from the vast array of web services, feeds, and APIs available using Adobe Flash and Flex together with HTML and JavaScript (Ajax). For example, developers learn how their desktop applications interact with online services such as Flickr for photo sharing and Amazon S3 for enterprise-level data storage; embrace technologies such as OpenID; create abstract visualizations based on music sourced from Last.fm; consume Twitter content via RSS; use the Flash-native data format SWX along with PHP to create a Yahoo! weather widget; and much more.
Apress, Inc., based in Berkeley, California, is dedicated to meeting the needs of IT professionals. Apress publishes books of the highest quality and has compiled a team of authors that reads like a veritable “Who’s Who” of the high-tech industry. Find out more: www.apress.com
For more information, press copies or to arrange an interview with an Apress author, please contact: Stephanie Parker stephanie.parker@apress.com
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