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Monday Sep 15, 2003

New Java books.

Hitting the racks this fall...

Java Open Source Java Programming by Joseph Walnes, Ara Abrahamian, Mike Cannon-Brookes, and Patrick A. Lightbody

I had the priviledge of reviewing a number of chapters from this book and found it to be not only a good introduction to WebWork, Sitemesh, and Hibernate, but also a great primer on test driven development and the use of mock objects in unit testing. It takes real disipline to do true test-first development and the authors of this book certainly have the disipline. The authors do whatever is necessary, sometimes writing scads of throw-away code along the way, to ensure that a test-first safety net is in place for each and every new development.

Pro JSP By Simon Brown, Sam Dalton, Daniel Jepp, Dave Johnson, Sing Li, and Matt Raible.

And now, from the shameless plug department... While you are book shopping you should also pick up a copy of Pro JSP, covering JSP 2.0, JSTL, database access options, Struts, XDoclet, and more. If you do, I'm sure I won't regret it.

Dave in Java 12:42PM Sep 15, 2003 Comments[4]

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Scoble says open web is done... stick a fork in it | http://t.co/Hgjf8lR4
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Title: Understanding Google's new privacy policy
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That's my VW Golf getting a car wash in a creek somewhere near Ocho Rios Jamaica in 1992
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