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

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.

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Comments:

Is the Java Open Source book done? The publish date on the Wiley website has been changed numerous times.

Posted by Matthew Porter on September 15, 2003 at 05:47 PM EDT #

Dave, Can you please enable comment popup on your weblog? Thanks.

Posted by Anthony Eden on September 15, 2003 at 06:09 PM EDT #

Matthew, I did not notice how far off the Java Open Source book and I don't have any details. Anthony, I prefer the in-page comments rather than the popups.

Posted by Dave Johnson on September 15, 2003 at 07:38 PM EDT #

The book has been handed off to Wiley (100% final form) so I'm guessing it shouldn't be too long now.

Posted by Patrick Lightbody on September 15, 2003 at 09:12 PM EDT #

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