This week, we're delighted to have Mark Hansen helping to answer questions about his new book SOA Using Java Web Services. He will hang out in the Web Services forum.
The promotion starts Tuesday, May 29th 2007 and will end on Friday, June 1st 2007.
We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Prentice Hall.
Please see the book promotions page to ensure your best chances at winning!
Jason reviewed Rails for Java Developers by Stuart Halloway and Justin Gehtland and gave it 8 out of 10 horseshoes.
Halloway and Gehtland provide a tutorial to learning Ruby and Rails by examining similarities with Java. ... The introduction of Ruby and Rails concepts by juxtaposing them with similar concepts implemented in Java is comforting for the developer who may feel a little intimidated by the differences between the languages. ... This is the best Java-centric Ruby introduction that I've seen and it's something I wish I had available to me when I was first learning the language.
You can read the full review and discuss it here.
Jeanne reviewed EJB 3 in Action by Debu Panda, Reza Rahman and Derek Lane and gave it 9 out of 10 horseshoes.
"EJB 3 in Action" manages to be an excellent read for both people new to EJB and people who have been using EJB 2.X. ... What really impressed me were the differences between this book and Sun's J2EE tutorial. ... The "EJB 3 in Action" approach is much more useful for gaining practical advice.
You can read the full review and discuss it here.
One of the most frequently requested features for the discussion forums has recently been added: RSS feeds.
On the forum home page there's now a little icon (
) next to each forum title. Copy the URL to which that image links into your favorite newsfeed reader, and you're good to go.
Only RSS 2.0 feeds are available.
This week, we're delighted to have Damon Williams helping to answer questions about his new book Pro PayPal E-Commerce. He will hang out in the Web Services forum.
The promotion starts Tuesday, May 15th 2007 and will end on Friday, 18th 2007.
We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Apress.
Please see the book promotions page to ensure your best chances at winning!
Ulf reviewed Lucene In Action by Otis Gospodnetić and Erik Hatcher and gave it 9 out of 10 horseshoes.
[The book] devotes lengthy chapters to the two core activities of indexing and searching, and it offers multiple examples of how the library accomplishes those. It also explains the multiple extension points that its API offers, allowing the user to customize many aspects of its operation. [...] a book that must be considered indispensable by serious users.
You can read the full review and discuss it here.
Ranchers discuss ways to introduce agile methods into projects and teams that so far have not been exposed to them. Some experience from the trenches is shared, and several useful articles and books are mentioned in this thread.
Should a method have just a single return statement at the end, or is it OK to have multiple returns in various places throughout the method? A member wonders what the recommended practice is, and gets a variety of viewpoints in response, including comparisons with other languages, in this thread.
This week, we're delighted to have Frank Zammetti helping to answer questions about his new book Practical JavaScript, DOM Scripting and Ajax Projects. He will hang out in the HTML and JavaScript forum.
The promotion starts Tuesday, May 1st 2007 and will end on Friday, May 4th 2007.
We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Apress.
Please see the book promotions page to ensure your best chances at winning!