This blog explains the fundamentals of the gem that I am working on swift_db

I named this swift coz i need some something which performs faster

Swift DB is a lightweight and clean in-memory Distributed Database written in pure ruby. It can also be used as a new distributed datastructure(B+ Tree) in ruby.Installation:
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Book Name: Flex on Rails: Building Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex 3 and Rails 2 (Developer’s Library)
Authors: By Tony Hillerson, Daniel Wanja
Link: Amazon link
Table of contents: See Sample Content
Published on: 2009

If you know Rails and Flex, and if you are desperately looking for a book that can guide you to Integrate Flex and Rails, then this is the book to buy. (more…)

Lets say You are a developer and not a professional web designer. You are in the process of helping your customer to design the components for their web application. You also guide the web designer to improve the User Experience and look-n-feel. Well you might find the below short tips useful then.
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I stumbled upon two cool online presentation maker sites and started using it for most of my presentations.
They are Prezi.com(the zooming online presentation) and Animoto.com (lets you create exciting videos from images).
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If you are looking for a simple tool which can read, edit, modify the xml content as well as exchange the xml content with other partners and machines, then I would say the best tools I found so far were Microsoft Infopath and Adobe LiveCycle Designer.

While one part of world is going towards browser based user-intefaces, their exists many, who still prefer a non-browser based plug-n-play tool which can do start their job while offline and finish it while online.
Many companies have requirements which is not letting them to have browser based document storage and exchange.

Microsoft Infopath and Adobe LiveCycle Designer plays a major role in xml based document exchange solutions. Both has toolbox to create user input form based on xml schema. While MS Infopath uses .NET as backend code, Adobe Forms Designer uses Javascript as backend code.

Both tool can be configured to use webservices. Email, xml validation, input validation, input driven events etc., were also available.

Before you start writing your own tool, its worth looking at them. MS Infopath cost around $200. Adobe LiveCycle Designer is $400.

Please note: This is my personal view and dont start blaming me for any issues.

AppFuse is an open source project and application that uses open source tools built on the Java platform to help you develop
web applications quickly and efficiently.
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Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse (Developer’s Library) (Paperback)

Author: Anil Hemrajani

Publisher: Sams; 1st edition (May 9, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672328968

Bought and read this book from Safari-O’reilly online.

The title itself gets the mood on.

This book will help you to understand and get started with Spring-Hibernate-Eclipse kind of projects.

This book is definitely a best shot for beginners in JEE.

Its not complete reference for every topics the author addresses, but will sure give you extended overview on XP, Agile etc.,

If you want to get started with your spring project immediately then this book is worth buying.

This book doesn’t cover Spring AOP – Hmm.. Its a pity.

Its interesting to see the chapters that start with a discussion between programmers and client.

Getting the sample code up and running is also just a click of a Ant build button.

Configuring Eclipse/Spring/ANT have been covered in detail while many other key technologies were just started and finished on a single page.

The appendix were quite useful, like AMDD, XP cheatsheet

Most commonly used technologies in JEE were addressed, so you can get to know what JEE is all about.

Altogether i recommend this book for Beginners and Intermediates to get know the beautiful world of JEE.

Google Web Toolkit Solutions: Cool & Useful Stuff
by David Geary

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub Date: January 18, 2007
Pages: 112

I got a chance to review this new eBook Google Web toolkit solutions by David Grey via Javaranch book review team.

Off the topic: You would need either the free Adobe Reader or Digital Editions to read this eBook.

While personally I like the Author’s another book on JSF, this eBook is not very much interesting to read.
This eBook neither serves the purpose of the programmers notebook nor as a reference material.

It simply goes through the code of the building Yahoo! trip application and Address book with GWT, something that you see in the last chapters of the Wrox published books – the sample application.

Out of 122 pages, most of the pages were taken over by re-printing the complete Java code. (Example Section 3: Drag and Drop).

Articles that covers integrating GWT with Spring/Hibernate/Maven is already available for free in Internet, so this eBook should have taken some other advanced topics.

Apart from the above comments, this eBook gives a good overview on using GWT with RPC, Java script tools, Hibernate and so on.

I particularly liked the Section 1 of this book that describes about GWT RPC.

The authors have taken good efforts to neatly introduce, analyses and compare various javascript tools specifically meant for AJAX.
The flow of the book is well managed and its very reader friendly.
This book is definitely a one stop reference for knowing what development tools, editors, libraries available for supporting AJAX in Java web applications.
Comes with 50MB examples source code. The source code has been configured to easily deploy and test using ANT.
This book mostly addresses the freely available AJAX tools.
Few drawbacks i found:
A lot of pages have been spent on describing and comparing between java frameworks, the authors could have avoided it since this book about using AJAX in java framework.
The code listings in the chapters (like html, javascript, jsp) were not well formatted, so it very difficult to read.
The authors gives more preference to JSF framework which is again not the context of the book.
Thats it.

Since the book is published recently(July06), this book covers many latest AJAX and JAVA Framework products, so its saves your time on finding a right tool
for your ajax based websites.
I dont want to write again the table of contents of this book but want to mention that you will sure learn all the bit and pieces that you need have for setting up a AJAX based java web applications.