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Better, Faster, Lighter Java
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
Contents:
Preface 1
The Inevitable Bloat Bloat Drivers Options Five Principles for Fighting the Bloat Summary 2
Keep It Simple The Value of Simplicity Process and Simplicity Your Safety Net Summary 3
Do One Thing, and Do It Well Understanding the Problem Distilling the Problem Layering Your Architecture Refactoring to Reduce Coupling Summary 4
Strive for Transparency Benefits of Transparency Who's in Control? Alternatives to Transparency Reflection Injecting Code Generating Code Advanced Topics Summary 5
You Are What You Eat Golden Hammers Understanding the Big Picture Considering Technical Requirements Summary 6
Allow for Extension The Basics of Extension Tools for Extension Plug-In Models Who Is the Customer? Summary 7
Hibernate The Lie What Is Hibernate? Using Your Persistent Model Evaluating Hibernate Summary 8
Spring What Is Spring? Pet Store: A Counter-Example The Domain Model Adding Persistence Presentation Summary 9
Simple Spider What Is the Spider? Examining the Requirements Planning for Development The Design The Configuration Service The Crawler/Indexer Service The Search Service The Console Interface The Web Service Interface Extending the Spider 10
Extending jPetStore A Brief Look at the Existing Search Feature Replacing the Controller The User Interface (JSP) Setting Up the Indexer Making Use of the Configuration Service Adding Hibernate Summary 11
Where Do We Go from Here? Technology Process Challenges Conclusion Bibliography Index
Brief Description:
The authors 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 and Spring.
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