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Better, Faster, Lighter Java

Author : Bruce Tate
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 0596552793
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Better, Faster, Lighter Java written by Bruce Tate and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes the simplest answer is the best. Many Enterprise Java developers, accustomed to dealing with Java's spiraling complexity, have fallen into the habit of choosing overly complicated solutions to problems when simpler options are available. Building server applications with "heavyweight" Java-based architectures, such as WebLogic, JBoss, and WebSphere, can be costly and cumbersome. When you've reached the point where you spend more time writing code to support your chosen framework than to solve your actual problems, it's time to think in terms of simplicity.In Better, Faster, Lighter Java, authors Bruce Tate and Justin Gehtland argue that the old heavyweight architectures are unwieldy, complicated, and contribute to slow and buggy application code. As an alternative means for building better applications, the authors present two "lightweight" open source architectures: Hibernate--a persistence framework that does its job with a minimal API and gets out of the way, and Spring--a container that's not invasive, heavy or complicated.Hibernate and Spring are designed to be fairly simple to learn and use, and place reasonable demands on system resources. Better, Faster, Lighter Java shows you how they can help you create enterprise applications that are easier to maintain, write, and debug, and are ultimately much faster.Written for intermediate to advanced Java developers, Better, Faster, Lighter Java, offers fresh ideas--often unorthodox--to help you rethink the way you work, and techniques and principles you'll use to build simpler applications. You'll learn to spend more time on what's important. When you're finished with this book, you'll find that your Java is better, faster, and lighter than ever before.

Beyond Java

Author : Bruce Tate
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 0596553498
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (965 download)

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Book Synopsis Beyond Java by : Bruce Tate

Download or read book Beyond Java written by Bruce Tate and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Tate, author of the Jolt Award-winning Better, Faster, Lighter Java has an intriguing notion about the future of Java, and it's causing some agitation among Java developers. Bruce believes Java is abandoning its base, and conditions are ripe for an alternative to emerge. In Beyond Java, Bruce chronicles the rise of the most successful language of all time, and then lays out, in painstaking detail, the compromises the founders had to make to establish success. Then, he describes the characteristics of likely successors to Java. He builds to a rapid and heady climax, presenting alternative languages and frameworks with productivity and innovation unmatched in Java. He closes with an evaluation of the most popular and important programming languages, and their future role in a world beyond Java. If you are agree with the book's premise--that Java's reign is coming to an end--then this book will help you start to build your skills accordingly. You can download some of the frameworks discussed and learn a few new languages. This book will teach you what a new language needs to succeed, so when things do change, you'll be more prepared. And even if you think Java is here to stay, you can use the best techniques from frameworks introduced in this book to improve what you're doing in Java today.

Beyond Java

Author : Bruce Tate
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 0596100949
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Java written by Bruce Tate and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Tate, author of the Jolt Award-winning Better, Faster, Lighter Java has an intriguing notion about the future of Java, and it's causing some agitation among Java developers. Bruce believes Java is abandoning its base, and conditions are ripe for an alternative to emerge. In Beyond Java, Bruce chronicles the rise of the most successful language of all time, and then lays out, in painstaking detail, the compromises the founders had to make to establish success. Then, he describes the characteristics of likely successors to Java. He builds to a rapid and heady climax, presenting alternative languages and frameworks with productivity and innovation unmatched in Java. He closes with an evaluation of the most popular and important programming languages, and their future role in a world beyond Java. If you are agree with the book's premise--that Java's reign is coming to an end--then this book will help you start to build your skills accordingly. You can download some of the frameworks discussed and learn a few new languages. This book will teach you what a new language needs to succeed, so when things do change, you'll be more prepared. And even if you think Java is here to stay, you can use the best techniques from frameworks introduced in this book to improve what you're doing in Java today.

Java in a Nutshell

Author : David Flanagan
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 0596007736
Total Pages : 1257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)

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Book Synopsis Java in a Nutshell by : David Flanagan

Download or read book Java in a Nutshell written by David Flanagan and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2005 with total page 1257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book is the most widely used Java reference inthe world. Edition after edition, Java in a Nutshell haskept developers up to speed on changes to the Java platformand programming language, offering them a single source ofinformation when they need help with critical details. The5th edition not only covers deep changes in the ......

Java Enterprise in a Nutshell

Author : Jim Farley
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 9780596101428
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Java Enterprise in a Nutshell by : Jim Farley

Download or read book Java Enterprise in a Nutshell written by Jim Farley and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2006 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the recent release of Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4, developers are being called on to add even greater, more complex levels of interconnectivity to their applications. To do this, Java developers need a clear understanding of how to apply the new APIs, and the capabilities and pitfalls in the program--which they can discover in this edition.

JBoss at Work

Author : Tom Marrs
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 0596522371
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (965 download)

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Book Synopsis JBoss at Work by : Tom Marrs

Download or read book JBoss at Work written by Tom Marrs and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2005-10-13 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consisting of a number of well-known open source products, JBoss is more a family of interrelated services than a single monolithic application. But, as with any tool that's as feature-rich as JBoss, there are number of pitfalls and complexities, too. Most developers struggle with the same issues when deploying J2EE applications on JBoss: they have trouble getting the many J2EE and JBoss deployment descriptors to work together; they have difficulty finding out how to get started; their projects don't have a packaging and deployment strategy that grows with the application; or, they find the Class Loaders confusing and don't know how to use them, which can cause problems. JBoss at Work: A Practical Guide helps developers overcome these challenges. As you work through the book, you'll build a project using extensive code examples. You'll delve into all the major facets of J2EE application deployment on JBoss, including JSPs, Servlets, EJBs, JMS, JNDI, web services, JavaMail, JDBC, and Hibernate. With the help of this book, you'll: Implement a full J2EE application and deploy it on JBoss Discover how to use the latest features of JBoss 4 and J2EE 1.4, including J2EE-compliant web services Master J2EE application deployment on JBoss with EARs, WARs, and EJB JARs Understand the core J2EE deployment descriptors and how they integrate with JBoss-specific descriptors Base your security strategy on JAAS Written for Java developers who want to use JBoss on their projects, the book covers the gamut of deploying J2EE technologies on JBoss, providing a brief survey of each subject aimed at the working professional with limited time. If you're one of the legions of developers who have decided to give JBoss a try, then JBoss at Work: A Practical Guide is your next logical purchase. It'll show you in plain language how to use the fastest growing open source tool in the industry today. If you've worked with JBoss before, this book will get you up to speed on JBoss 4, JBoss WS (web services), and Hibernate 3.

Spring: A Developer's Notebook

Author : Bruce Tate
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 0596553099
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Spring: A Developer's Notebook written by Bruce Tate and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2005-04-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since development first began on Spring in 2003, there's been a constant buzz about it in Java development publications and corporate IT departments. The reason is clear: Spring is a lightweight Java framework in a world of complex heavyweight architectures that take forever to implement. Spring is like a breath of fresh air to overworked developers.In Spring, you can make an object secure, remote, or transactional, with a couple of lines of configuration instead of embedded code. The resulting application is simple and clean. In Spring, you can work less and go home early, because you can strip away a whole lot of the redundant code that you tend to see in most J2EE applications. You won't be nearly as burdened with meaningless detail. In Spring, you can change your mind without the consequences bleeding through your entire application. You'll adapt much more quickly than you ever could before.Spring: A Developer's Notebook offers a quick dive into the new Spring framework, designed to let you get hands-on as quickly as you like. If you don't want to bother with a lot of theory, this book is definitely for you. You'll work through one example after another. Along the way, you'll discover the energy and promise of the Spring framework.This practical guide features ten code-intensive labs that'll rapidly get you up to speed. You'll learn how to do the following, and more: install the Spring Framework set up the development environment use Spring with other open source Java tools such as Tomcat, Struts, and Hibernate master AOP and transactions utilize ORM solutions As with all titles in the Developer's Notebook series, this no-nonsense book skips all the boring prose and cuts right to the chase. It's an approach that forces you to get your hands dirty by working through one instructional example after another-examples that speak to you instead of at you.

The Definitive Guide to Grails

Author : Graeme Rocher
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1430203595
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Definitive Guide to Grails written by Graeme Rocher and published by Apress. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Java professionals long for the productivity of a framework like Ruby on Rails provides without having to leave the Java platform. The new open source lightweight Grails Framework provides the missing link by using the best aspects of the Java-based Groovy scripting language as well as the Java platform itself. This Rails-like framework gives dynamic Java a boost; Java developers now have a viable Java-based solution instead of the non-Java-based Ruby on Rails, which can create more problems than it solves. Learn all about this in The Definitive Guide to Grails, written by the Grails project founder and lead. Grails is a fast-emerging area of much interest.

Head First Servlets and JSP

Author : Bryan Basham
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 0596522266
Total Pages : 913 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Head First Servlets and JSP written by Bryan Basham and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2008 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking to study up for the new J2EE 1.5 Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD) exam? This book will get you way up to speed on the technology you'll know it so well, in fact, that you can pass the brand new J2EE 1.5 exam. If that's what you want to do, that is. Maybe you don't care about the exam, but need to use servlets and JSPs in your next project. You're working on a deadline. You're over the legal limit for caffeine. You can't waste your time with a book that makes sense only AFTER you're an expert (or worse, one that puts you to sleep). Learn how to write servlets and JSPs, what makes a web container tick (and what ticks it off), how to use JSP's Expression Language (EL for short), and how to write deployment descriptors for your web applications. Master the c: out tag, and get a handle on exactly what's changed since the older J2EE 1.4 exam. You don't just pass the new J2EE 1.5 SCWCD exam, you'll understand this stuff and put it to work immediately. Head First Servlets and JSP doesn't just give you a bunch of facts to memorize; it drives knowledge straight into your brain. You'll interact with servlets and JSPs in ways that help you learn quickly and deeply. And when you're through with the book, you can take a brand-new mock exam, created specifically to simulate the real test-taking experience.

Iterating Infusion

Author : Greg Anthony
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1430251050
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Iterating Infusion written by Greg Anthony and published by Apress. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iterating Infusion: Clearer Views of Objects, Classes, and Systems is a one-of-a-kind book, not dependent on any single technology. Rather, it provides a way to integrate the most efficient techniques from a variety of programming methods, in a manner that makes designing and programming software look easy. Iterating Infusion presents comprehensive tools for you to best manage and work with object orientation. These include simplified fundamental concepts, popular language comparisons, advanced designing strategies, a broad usage progression, thorough design notations (interaction algebra), and data-oriented (fundamentally-OO) languages. The title, Iterating Infusion, alludes to the fact that any system has multiple, coexisting functional levels and that new levels—both lower and higher—are continually added to the same functional area. The practical effect is to bring processes into focus, always clarifying the vague. The extreme form of this is when separate but compatible technologies are brought together to create advancements; these can be baby-steps or great leaps, with varying amounts of effort. In more general terms, the same thing in a different context can take on much more power. And actually, this phenomenon is at the heart of object-oriented software. Readers have been confirming that, compared to books on just low-level details, Iterating Infusion presents cohesive insights that allow you to solve more problems with the same effort in more key places.

Learning Java

Author : Patrick Niemeyer
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 0596555563
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (965 download)

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Book Synopsis Learning Java by : Patrick Niemeyer

Download or read book Learning Java written by Patrick Niemeyer and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2005-05-20 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Version 5.0 of the Java 2 Standard Edition SDK is the most important upgrade since Java first appeared a decade ago. With Java 5.0, you'll not only find substantial changes in the platform, but to the language itself-something that developers of Java took five years to complete. The main goal of Java 5.0 is to make it easier for you to develop safe, powerful code, but none of these improvements makes Java any easier to learn, even if you've programmed with Java for years. And that means our bestselling hands-on tutorial takes on even greater significance. Learning Java is the most widely sought introduction to the programming language that's changed the way we think about computing. Our updated third edition takes an objective, no-nonsense approach to the new features in Java 5.0, some of which are drastically different from the way things were done in any previous versions. The most essential change is the addition of "generics", a feature that allows developers to write, test, and deploy code once, and then reuse the code again and again for different data types. The beauty of generics is that more problems will be caught during development, and Learning Java will show you exactly how it's done. Java 5.0 also adds more than 1,000 new classes to the Java library. That means 1,000 new things you can do without having to program it in yourself. That's a huge change. With our book's practical examples, you'll come up to speed quickly on this and other new features such as loops and threads. The new edition also includes an introduction to Eclipse, the open source IDE that is growing in popularity. Learning Java, 3rd Edition addresses all of the important uses of Java, such as web applications, servlets, and XML that are increasingly driving enterprise applications.

Ruby on Rails: Up and Running

Author : Bruce Tate
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 0596554788
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (965 download)

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Book Synopsis Ruby on Rails: Up and Running by : Bruce Tate

Download or read book Ruby on Rails: Up and Running written by Bruce Tate and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2006-08-22 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruby on Rails is the super-productive new way to develop full-featuredweb applications. With Ruby on Rails, powerful web applications thatonce took weeks or months to develop can now be produced in a matter ofdays. If it sounds too good to be true, it isn't. If you're like a lot of web developers, you've probably consideredkicking the tires on Rails - the framework of choice for the newgeneration of Web 2.0 developers. Ruby on Rails: Up and Running takes you out for a test drive and shows you just how fastRuby on Rails can go. This compact guide teaches you the basics of installing and using boththe Ruby scripting language and the Rails framework for the quickdevelopment of web applications. Ruby on Rails: Up andRunning covers just about everything youneed - from making a simple database-backed application toadding elaborate Ajaxian features and all the juicy bits in between.While Rails is praised for its simplicity and speed of development,there are still a few steps to master on the way. More advancedmaterial helps you map data to an imperfect table, traverse complexrelationships, and build custom finders. A section on working with Ajaxand REST shows you how to exploit the Rails service frameworks to sendemails, implement web services, and create dynamic user-centric webpages. The book also explains the essentials of logging to findperformance problems and delves into other performance-optimizingtechniques. As new web development frameworks go, Ruby on Rails is the talk of thetown. And Ruby on Rails: Up and Running can makesure you're in on the discussion.

Software Engineering and Middleware

Author : Thomas Gschwind
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540319751
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Software Engineering and Middleware written by Thomas Gschwind and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middleware provides an integration framework for multiple and potentially - verse computing platforms. It allows developers to engineer distributed appli- tions more easily, providing abstractions and primitives to handle distribution and coordination. Middlewareisconstantlyfacingnewchallenges.Today’sadvancesincomp- ing, including development of pervasive applications, exacerbates the diversity problem, introducing variations not only in terms of performance, but also in terms of environments and device characteristics. Software engineers are the- fore challenged both in the area of the development of new and scalable m- dleware systems, where open, heterogeneous, component-based platforms should provide richer functionality and services, and in the area of application devel- ment, where tools to simplify the use of middleware solutions are necessary. Software Engineering and Middleware is the premier workshop for the - search and practice community of software engineering working in both areas to presentanddiscussnewideasinthis?eld.SEM2004wasthefourthinternational workshop on software engineering and middleware of the EDO/SEM workshop series. Previous workshops of this series were successfully held in 2002, 2000 and 1999. Most of the proceedings have been published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Java Cookbook

Author : Ian F Darwin
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 0596555202
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Java Cookbook written by Ian F Darwin and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2004-06-14 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have a choice: you can wade your way through lengthy Java tutorials and figure things out by trial and error, or you can pick up Java Cookbook, 2nd Edition and get to the heart of what you need to know when you need to know it.With the completely revised and thoroughly updated Java Cookbook, 2nd Edition, Java developers like you will learn by example, try out new features, and use sample code to understand how new additions to the language and platform work--and how to put them to work for you.This comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples will satisfy Java developers at all levels of expertise. Whether you're new to Java programming and need something to bridge the gap between theory-laden reference manuals and real-world programs or you're a seasoned Java programmer looking for a new perspective or a different problem-solving context, this book will help you make the most of your Java knowledge.Packed with hundreds of tried-and-true Java recipes covering all of the major APIs from the 1.4 version of Java, this book also offers significant first-look recipes for the most important features of the new 1.5 version, which is in beta release. You get practical solutions to everyday problems, and each is followed by a detailed, ultimately useful explanation of how and why the technology works.Java Cookbook, 2nd Edition includes code segments covering many specialized APIs--like those for working with Struts, Ant and other new popular Open Source tools. It also includes expanded Mac OS X Panther coverage and serves as a great launching point for Java developers who want to get started in areas outside of their specialization.In this major revision, you'll find succinct pieces of code that can be easily incorporated into other programs. Focusing on what's useful or tricky--or what's useful and tricky--Java Cookbook, 2nd Edition is the most practical Java programming book on the market.

Computational Science – ICCS 2008

Author : Marian Bubak
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 354069384X
Total Pages : 1070 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Computational Science – ICCS 2008 written by Marian Bubak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-06-25 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three-volume set LNCS 5101-5103 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2008, held in Krakow, Poland in June 2008. The 167 revised papers of the main conference track presented together with the abstracts of 7 keynote talks and the 100 revised papers from 14 workshops were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the three volumes. The main conference track was divided into approximately 20 parallel sessions addressing topics such as e-science applications and systems, scheduling and load balancing, software services and tools, new hardware and its applications, computer networks, simulation of complex systems, image processing and visualization, optimization techniques, numerical linear algebra, and numerical algorithms. The second volume contains workshop papers related to various computational research areas, e.g.: computer graphics and geometric modeling, simulation of multiphysics multiscale systems, computational chemistry and its applications, computational finance and business intelligence, physical, biological and social networks, geocomputation, and teaching computational science. The third volume is mostly related to computer science topics such as bioinformatics' challenges to computer science, tools for program development and analysis in computational science, software engineering for large-scale computing, collaborative and cooperative environments, applications of workflows in computational science, as well as intelligent agents and evolvable systems.

Crafting Interpreters

Author : Robert Nystrom
Publisher : Genever Benning
ISBN 13 : 0990582949
Total Pages : 1021 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Crafting Interpreters written by Robert Nystrom and published by Genever Benning. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 1021 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite using them every day, most software engineers know little about how programming languages are designed and implemented. For many, their only experience with that corner of computer science was a terrifying "compilers" class that they suffered through in undergrad and tried to blot from their memory as soon as they had scribbled their last NFA to DFA conversion on the final exam. That fearsome reputation belies a field that is rich with useful techniques and not so difficult as some of its practitioners might have you believe. A better understanding of how programming languages are built will make you a stronger software engineer and teach you concepts and data structures you'll use the rest of your coding days. You might even have fun. This book teaches you everything you need to know to implement a full-featured, efficient scripting language. You'll learn both high-level concepts around parsing and semantics and gritty details like bytecode representation and garbage collection. Your brain will light up with new ideas, and your hands will get dirty and calloused. Starting from main(), you will build a language that features rich syntax, dynamic typing, garbage collection, lexical scope, first-class functions, closures, classes, and inheritance. All packed into a few thousand lines of clean, fast code that you thoroughly understand because you wrote each one yourself.

Head First Design Patterns

Author : Eric Freeman
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 0596007124
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Head First Design Patterns written by Eric Freeman and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2004-10-25 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're not alone. At any given moment, somewhere in the world someone struggles with the same software design problems you have. You know you don't want to reinvent the wheel (or worse, a flat tire), so you look to Design Patterns--the lessons learned by those who've faced the same problems. With Design Patterns, you get to take advantage of the best practices and experience of others, so that you can spend your time on...something else. Something more challenging. Something more complex. Something more fun. You want to learn about the patterns that matter--why to use them, when to use them, how to use them (and when NOT to use them). But you don't just want to see how patterns look in a book, you want to know how they look "in the wild". In their native environment. In other words, in real world applications. You also want to learn how patterns are used in the Java API, and how to exploit Java's built-in pattern support in your own code. You want to learn the real OO design principles and why everything your boss told you about inheritance might be wrong (and what to do instead). You want to learn how those principles will help the next time you're up a creek without a design pattern. Most importantly, you want to learn the "secret language" of Design Patterns so that you can hold your own with your co-worker (and impress cocktail party guests) when he casually mentions his stunningly clever use of Command, Facade, Proxy, and Factory in between sips of a martini. You'll easily counter with your deep understanding of why Singleton isn't as simple as it sounds, how the Factory is so often misunderstood, or on the real relationship between Decorator, Facade and Adapter. With Head First Design Patterns, you'll avoid the embarrassment of thinking Decorator is something from the "Trading Spaces" show. Best of all, in a way that won't put you to sleep! We think your time is too important (and too short) to spend it struggling with academic texts. If you've read a Head First book, you know what to expect--a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works. Using the latest research in neurobiology, cognitive science, and learning theory, Head First Design Patterns will load patterns into your brain in a way that sticks. In a way that lets you put them to work immediately. In a way that makes you better at solving software design problems, and better at speaking the language of patterns with others on your team.