Hibernate: A J2EE Developer's Guide

Hibernate makes it far easier to build robust, high-performance database applications with Java. Now there's a practical, hands-on guide to using Hibernate's flexible, fast object/relational persistence and query services. Will Iverson covers every facet of development with Hibernate, from its mapping system to its advanced query mechanisms and transaction support.

Apache Jakarta Commons : Reusable Java Components

Iverson begins with a definitive overview of the Commons project: its goals, what it's delivered, and how to get started with Commons components. Next, he presents example-rich chapters on Commons' twelve most useful packages, covering topics ranging from HTTP file upload to database connectivity. Iverson provides detailed code samples for every component he describes. Once you've mastered the core Jakarta Commons packages, you'll constantly rely on this book's handy 75-page quick-reference.

Real World Web Services

The core idea behind Real World Web Services is simple: after years of hype, what are the major players really doing with web services? Standard bodies may wrangle and platform vendors may preach, but at the end of the day what are the technologies that are actually in use, and how can developers incorporate them into their own applications? Those are the answers Real World Web Services delivers.

It's a field guide to the wild and wooly world of non-trivial deployed web services. The heart of the book is a series of projects, demonstrating the use and integration of Google, Amazon, eBay, PayPal, FedEx, and many more web services.

The author focuses on building 8 fully worked out example web applications that incorporate the best web services available today. The book thoroughly documents how to add functionality like automating listings for auctions, dynamically calculating shipping fees, automatically sending faxes to your suppliers, using an aggregator to pull data from multiple news and web service feeds into a single format or monitoring the latest weblog discussions and Google searches to keep web site visitors on top of topics of interest-by integrating APIs from popular websites most people are already familiar with.

Mac OS X for Java Geeks

Written by the founder of Cascade Technology Group, Will Iverson. Available today from Amazon.com and other book stores.

More information, including the table of contents, a sample chapter, errata, and code downloads can be found at the O'Reilly web site.

Ant is the default for many web application developers, but in this article I make the case for using Maven 2 to save you a lot of time and hassle. I introduce core Maven 2 concepts and then show how easy it is to develop a web app with Maven 2.

Q & A with the creator of Project Looking Glass, Sun's 3D desktop technology open source project on java.net. A lot of the coverage of Project Looking Glass to date has focused on the higher level aspects - this article dives into the technical detail, explaining the import of the project for a cross-platform client side Java developer.

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"Earlier this year, my book, Mac OS X for Java Geeks , was released. One section of the book that generated more questions and comments than almost any other was the section on JNI, or the Java Native Interface..."