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Seam in Action

By Dan Allen forward by Norman Richards, Published by Manning

Seam in Action offers an objective and in-depth look at Seam, an integration framework that combines many aspects of Java EE, corrects shortcomings in its technologies (JSF, EJB, JPA) and fills in gaps where they interface, all while reducing the platform's complexity. This feat is achieved through a consistent use of stateful components, annotations, the EL, and XHTML-based templates, giving you maximum distance out of every keystroke. The book has a strong focus on persistence, which Seam actually gets right by teeing it up on the conversation--a stateful context which spans a sequence of requests, serves as an business-intelligent cache to reduce load on the database, and eliminates lazy instantiation problems that plague many applications. As you advance through this book, you'll find your application and understanding of enterprise Java mature quickly as you master technologies you thought you'd never have time to learn. Seam in Action is the ideal resource and must have guide for applying Seam effectively.

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Hibernate Search in Action

By Emmanuel Brenard and John Griffin, Published by Manning

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 mismatch between the index structure and the domain model, handle querying conflicts, and so on.

Hibernate Search is an enterprise search tool based on Hibernate Core and Apache Lucene. It provides full text search capabilities for Hibernate-based applications without the infrastructural code required by other search engines. With this free, open-source technology, you can quickly add high-powered search features in an intelligent, maintainable way.

Hibernate Search in Action is a practical, example-oriented guide for Java developers with some background in Hibernate Core. As the first book to cover Hibernate Search, it guides you through every step to set up full text search functionality in your Java applications. The book also introduces core search techniques and reviews the relevant parts of Lucene, in particular the query capabilities.

Hibernate Search in Action also provides a pragmatic, how-to exploration of more advanced topics such as Search clustering. For anyone using Hibernate or JBoss Seam, this book is the definitive guide on how to add or enhance search features in their applications.

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Practical RichFaces

By Max Katz, Published by Apress

JBoss RichFaces is a rich JSF component library that helps developers quickly develop next–generation web applications. Practical RichFaces describes how to best take advantage of RichFaces, the integration of the Ajax4jsf and RichFaces libraries, to create a flexible and powerful programs. Assuming some JSF background, it shows you how you can radically reduce programming time and effort to create rich AJAX based applications.

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Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 (5th edition)

By Richard Monson-Haefel and Bill Burke, Published by O'Reilly

If you're up on the latest Java technologies, then you know that Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 is the hottest news in Java this year. In fact, EJB 3.0 is being hailed as the new standard of server-side business logic programming. And O'Reilly's award-winning book on EJB has been refreshed just in time to capitalize on the technology's latest rise in popularity. This fifth edition, written by Bill Burke and Richard Monson-Haefel has been updated to capture the very latest need-to-know Java technologies in the same award-winning fashion that drove the success of the previous four strong-selling editions.

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Java Persistence with Hibernate

By Christian Bauer and Gavin King, Published by Manning

This book is authored by Hibernate founders and best selling authors. It covers the latest and greatest Java Persistence API (a.k.a EJB3 persistence API), and the Hibnerate3 implementation and extension of this standard API. If you are a Hibernate user, this is a must-have book to master the next evolution of of Hibernate.

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Hibernate in Action

By Christian Bauer and Gavin King, Published by Manning

Hibernate practically exploded on the Java scene. Why is this open-source tool so popular? Because it automates a tedious task: persisting your Java objects to a relational database. Hibernate in Action carefully explains the concepts you need, then gets you going. It builds on a single example to show you how to use Hibernate in practice, how to deal with concurrency and transactions, how to efficiently retrieve objects and use caching. The authors created Hibernate and they field questions from the Hibernate community every day - they know how to make Hibernate sing. Knowledge and insight seep out of every pore of this book.

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JBoss: A Developer's Notebook

By Norman Richards and Sam Griffith, Published by O'Reilly

JBoss: A Developer's Notebook takes you on a complete tour of JBoss in a very unique way: rather than long discussions, you will find code--lots of code. In fact, the book is a collection of hands-on labs that take you through the critical JBoss features step-by-step. You don't just read about JBoss, you learn it through direct practical application. That includes exploring the server's many configurations: from bare features for simple applications, to the lightweight J2EE configuration, to everything JBoss has in store-including Hibernate and Tomcat. This book also introduces the management console, the web services messaging features, enhanced monitoring capabilities, and shows you how to improve performance.

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JBoss 4.0 - The Official Guide

By Scott Stark, Marc Fleury and Norman Richards, Published by Sams

If you need to understand how JBoss works, why not learn it from the people who created it? JBoss 4.0 - The Official Guide is the authoritative resource recognized as the official print documentation for JBoss 4.0. It covers all aspects of the server including administration as well as the internal architecture of the JBoss AS.

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Managing J2EE Applications with JMX.

By Marc Fleury, Juha Lindfors, The JBoss Group. (Sams 2002)

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Lightweight Java Web Application Development: Leveraging EJB3, JSF, POJO and Seam

By Michael Yuan and Norman Richards, Published by Prentice Hall

This book is a step-by-step guide on how to build POJO (plain old Java object) web applications using standard Java EE 5.0 technologies such as EJB 3.0 and JSF. Following the real-world examples, you will be able to construct fully-featured, easy-to-understand and elegant web applications in a matter of hours -- all without confusing "XML code" and other artifacts typically found in other frameworks. Read the first 3 chapters of the book

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JBoss Seam: Simplicity and Power Beyond Java EE 5

By Michael Yuan and Thomas Heute, Forward by Gavin King, Published by Prentice Hall

JBoss Seam is the "missing framework that should have been in Java EE 5.0". It glues together EJB 3.0 and JSF components under a unified POJO framework and hence greatly simplifies Java EE 5.0 web applications. Seam provides advanced state management facilities that enable us to develop new types of web applications that are impossible (or very hard to do) in previous generations of enterprise Java frameworks. For instance, with Seam we can build web applications with multiple isolated workspaces -- those applications behave like multiple window desktop applications. Seam also supports integrating long running and multiple-actor business processes in web applications. In this book, you will learn how to use Seam through a series of concrete examples and tutorials.

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