Lucene in Action

When Lucene first appeared, this superfast search engine was nothing short of amazing. Today, Lucene still delivers. Its high-performance, easy-to-use API, features like numeric fields, payloads, near-real-time search, and huge increases in indexing and s...

 The Joy of Clojure Thinking the Clojure Way

If you've seen how dozens of lines of Java or Ruby can dissolve into just a few lines of Clojure, you'll know why the authors of this book call it a "joyful language." Clojure is a dialect of Lisp that runs on the JVM. It combines the nice features of a s...

 Hibernate Search in Action

Good search capability is one of the primary demands of a business application. Engines like Lucene provide a great starting point, but with complex applications it can be tricky to implement. It's tough to keep the index up to date, deal with the mismatc...

 Open Source ESBs in Action Example Implementations in Mule and ServiceMix

The need for enterprise integration is widespread for the simple reason that businesses require independent applications to exchange information with each other. A CRM application must know about the order history of a customer, but that history is stored...

 GWT in Practice Google Web Toolkit

If you're a web developer, you already know that you can use Ajax to add rich, user-friendly, dynamic features to your applications. With the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), a new Ajax tool from Google that automatically converts Java to JavaScript, you can bui...

 J2EE and Xml Development

Geared toward experienced developers, this reference demonstrates how Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), and XML technologies can be used together to create more robust distributed applications and software systems. The use of XML technology to e...

 LINQ in Action

LINQ, Language INtegrated Query, is a new extension to the Visual Basic and C# programming languages designed to simplify data queries and database interaction. It addreses O/R mapping issues by making query operations like SQL statements part of the prog...

 Minimal Perl For UNIX/Linux People

Perl is a complex language that can be difficult to master. Perl advocates boast that "There's More Than One Way To Do It", but do you really want to learn several ways of saying the same thing to a computer? To make Perl more accessible, Dr. Tim Maher...

 Java Persistence with Hibernate

Java Persistence with Hibernate is divided into three major parts. In Part 1, the book introduces the object/relational paradigm mismatch and explains the fundamentals behind object/relational mapping. Then, readers are walked through a hands-on tutori...

 Java 2 Micro Edition

Java2 Micro Edition (J2ME) is a technology defined by many specifications. These specifications help J2ME address the diverse needs of this wide spectrum of consumer products. This guide describes the architecture of J2ME and demonstrates the various spec...

 JavaServer Faces in Action

JavaServer Faces helps streamline your web development through the use of UI components and events (instead of HTTP requests and responses). JSF components-buttons, text boxes, checkboxes, data grids, etc.-live between user requests, which eliminates ...

 Jsp tag libraries

If you are a JavaServer Pages programmer looking to give your page developers a powerful yet simple syntax for building pages, you will want them to use JSP tags. This book teaches you how to develop custom tag libraries that can separate presentation fro...

 IntelliJ IDEA in Action Covers Idea v.5

If you work with IntelliJ IDEA, you know its unique power and have already seen a jump in your productivity. But because IntelliJ IDEA is a rich system you, like many others, are probably using just a small subset of its features. You can overcome this sy...

 SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services in Action Revised Edition of Microsoft Reporting Services in Action

Reports are the lifeline of business, so a good reporting environment is a big deal. With a powerful tool like Microsoft Reporting Services, .NET developers can add reporting to any type of application, regardless of its target platform or development lan...

 ASP.Net 2.0 Web Parts in Action

The static Web is going out of style. Its click-and-wait user experience is giving way to dynamic personalized content and intuitive interactions. With ASP 2.0, a web developer can compose a page out of separate working parts "Web Parts" that independentl...