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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While developing and testing the Java EE web applications, people often needs a way to immediately web-view the changes that they have made in their JSP or HTML or Javascript.

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Tags: Java, Jetty, Maven, Spring, Tomcat
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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.

Tags: Agile, Hibernate, Java, Maven, Scrum, Spring
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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.

Tags: Ajax, Java, Javascript, RIA, Spring, Web 2.0
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