Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse

by Anil Hemrajani

Agile Java™ Development With Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse is a book about robust technologies and effective methods which help bring simplicity back into the world of enterprise Java development. The three key technologies covered in this book, the Spring Framework, Hibernate and Eclipse, help reduce the complexity of enterprise Java development significantly. Furthermore, these technologies enable plain old Java objects (POJOs) to be deployed in light-weight containers versus heavy-handed remote objects that require heavy EJB containers. This book also extensively covers technologies such as Ant, JUnit, JSP tag libraries and touches upon other areas such as such logging, GUI based debugging, monitoring using JMX, job scheduling, emailing, and more. Also, Extreme Programming (XP), Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD) and refactoring are methods that can expedite the software development projects by reducing the amount of up front requirements and design; hence these methods are embedded throughout the book but with just enough details and examples to not sidetrack the focus of this book. In addition, this book contains well separated, subjective material (opinion sidebars), comic illustrations, tips and tricks, all of which provide real-world and practical perspectives on relevant topics. Last but not least, this book demonstrates the complete lifecycle by building and following a sample application, chapter-by-chapter, starting from conceptualization to production using the technology and processes covered in this book. In summary, by using the technologies and methods covered in this book, the reader will be able to effectively develop enterprise-class Java applications, in an agile manner!

Genres: Reference, Software, Technical

360 pages, Paperback

First published May 9, 2006

Reviews

[Yaroslav · Rating 2 out of 5]

Слабенька книжка. Або для дуже початківців, або хз

[Air Knight · Rating 1 out of 5]

The book sells itself with an ambitious goals but makes so many mistakes that I doubt it would have been useful even at the time of the release, most of them related with being too vague or just making a casual remark about a technology or process, and certainly being guilty of trying to cover up too much without making a stellar, or even satisfying covering a single topic. You can pick up few things about Agile methods, a bit about Hibernate, Spring and unit testing but in the end you just have a reference of a lot of "great tools" with negligible knowledge about them

It's certainly fun to see the reactions to Eclipse IDE in 2006, but even that feels like a mistake because it covers more material than working with Hibernate, pretty much describing how awesome are its features but nothing else

A good lesson of what not to do if you want to write a similar thing I guess, I learned a bit despite the age as these technologies are still used, but I felt the book was a disaster

[Greg · Rating 2 out of 5]

A little bit outdated book. It could be good for a starter.