https://www.developerfusion.com/t/architecture/books/view/samplechapters/ 2009-04-08T00:00:00.00Z http://www.developerfusion.com/book/43800/pro-silverlight-for-the-enterprise-books-for-professionals-by-professionals/ 2009-04-08T00:00:00.00Z

Microsoft Silverlight 2 is a new development platform designed to make the development of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) far easier than has previously been possible. Pro Silverlight for the Enterprise addresses the question of how you can bring Silverlight 2 to your company to provide rich Internet experiences that will interface cleanly with your existing application architecture.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/17288/pro-flex-on-spring-experts-voice-in-web-development/ 2009-03-12T00:00:00.00Z

This book is well suited for those with some experience with Flex and Spring who are looking for development design patterns and practical RIA architecture integration techniques. What you’ll learn Explore best practices on architecting enterprise Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Spring. Discover how Flex applications interface with Spring services.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/12597/the-definitive-guide-to-grails-second-edition-experts-voice-in-web-development/ 2009-01-15T00:00:00.00Z

The rise of Ruby on Rails has signified a huge shift in how we build web applications today; it is a fantastic framework with a growing community. There is, however, space for another such framework that integrates seamlessly with Java. Thousands of companies have invested in Java, and these same companies are losing out on the benefits of a Rails–like framework. Enter Grails. Grails is not just a Rails clone, it aims to provide a Rails–like environment that is more familiar to Java

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/31265/expert-c-2008-business-objects/ 2008-12-19T00:00:00.00Z

Do you want to create .NET applications that provide high performance and scalability? Do you want to employ object–oriented programming techniques in a distributed environment? Do you want to maximize the reuse and maintainability of your code? Then this book is for you. In Rockford Lhotka’s Expert C# 2008 Business Objects, you’ll learn how to use advanced

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/44418/practical-cakephp-projects-practical-projects/ 2008-12-02T00:00:00.00Z

If you’ve been using PHP for sometime now and would like to start using a web framework, you’ll want to try CakePHP, which is an open source rapid development web framework built on PHP. PHP experts Kai Chan and John Omokore guide you through a variety of practical CakePHP applications. You will work on projects such as a video gallery, unit testing application, an e–commerce app, a blog site, and much more.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/31234/the-definitive-guide-to-soa-oracle-service-bus-second-edition/ 2008-09-19T00:00:00.00Z

The Definitive Guide to SOA: Oracle® Service Bus, Second Edition targets professional software developers and architects who know enterprise development but are new to enterprise service buses (ESBs) and service–oriented architecture (SOA) development. This is the first book to cover a practical approach to SOA using the BEA AquaLogic Service Bus tool. And it’s written from the “source”â??BEA Systems AquaLogic product lead Jeff Davies.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/31332/pro-spring-25/ 2008-08-15T00:00:00.00Z

The Spring Framework 2.5 release reflects the state of the art in both the Spring Framework and enterprise Java frameworks as a whole. A guidebook to this critical tool is necessary reading for any conscientious Java developer. — Rob Harrop, author of Pro Spring The move from so–called heavyweight architectures, such as Enterprise JavaBeans, toward lightweight frameworks, like Spring, has not stopped since Pro Spring was published by Rob Harrop and Jan Machacek in 2005; in fact, it

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/17735/pro-javatrade-ee-spring-patterns-best-practices-and-design-strategies-implementing-java-ee-patterns-with-the-spring-f/ 2008-08-20T00:00:00.00Z

“The Java™ landscape is littered with libraries, tools, and specifications. What’s been lacking is the expertise to fuse them into solutions to real–world problems. These patterns are the intellectual mortar for J2EE software construction.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/17799/practical-api-design-confessions-of-a-java-framework-architect/ 2008-07-28T00:00:00.00Z

You might think more than enough design books exist in the programming world already. In fact, there are so many that it makes sense to ask why you would read yet another. Is there really a need for yet another design book? In fact, there is a greater need than ever before, and Practical API Design: Confessions of a Java Framework Architect fills that need!

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/44398/pro-sql-server-2008-service-broker/ 2008-07-24T00:00:00.00Z

Service Broker is a key Microsoft product in support of message–based processing between applications. Pro SQL Server 2008 Service Broker helps you to take full advantage of this key Microsoft technology, beginning from the fundamentals, moving through installation and application development, and ultimately showing you how to develop highly available and scalable applications based upon the Service–Oriented Architecture that is fast gaining ground as the way forward in application d

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