Warning: Shameless Plug
I am pleased to announce that, after a long time and a lot of
work, my first book Spring Enterprise Recipes (which I
co-authored with the indefatigable, epic and extraordinary Mr. Gary
Mak, author of - among many other things, Apress' Spring
Recipes) has been released and is now purchasable. It should be
hitting book stores soon, but in the meantime, you can buy the e-book
at Apress.com, or you can pre-order it on
Amazon.com.
The book discusses Spring 3, but also accounts
for the many "modules" surrounding Spring with an eye towards building
elegant, scalable systems with a minimum of fuss. Many of these
modules have come from SpringSource, and some are independent third
party projects that integrate well with Spring. Spring Enterprise
Recipes introduces concepts like business process management
(BPM), enterprise application integration (EAI), distributed computing
and messaging and then grounds these introductions with real-world
examples using Spring and lead open source frameworks.
This book discusses both the why and the how. It
starts with a discussion of the usual suspects, exploring the
quintessential tools in any developer's toolbox: RPC (RMI, Hessian,
Burlap, Web Services, HTTP/Invoker, EJB 2 and 3, and more), messaging
(via JMS), database access (JdbcTemplate, and a few of Spring's
numerous supported ORM abstractions), transactions (e.g., various
transaction abstractions supported by Spring), and numerous services
like e-mail, JMX, worker pools, and scheduling infrastructure.
Then, we progress into more advanced solutions. This book includes
the first-in-print or most updated coverage of a lot of technologies,
including Spring Integration (a lightweight ESB-like integration
framework for EAI), Spring and jBPM 4 for business process
management, GridGain for grid computing, Terracotta for clustered
state managment, Spring Batch for batch-processing solutions and OSGi
to bring modularity to your application.
In the large, this book is a gentle, but comprehensive
introduction to the best-of-breed solutions for tomorrow's
architecture using Spring and other lightweight, powerful tools.
Having said all that, I hope you'll consider it for your next purchase
and that it helps you solve some interesting problems and build even
more interesting solutions!
