You have to know that I’ve tried. Honestly, I did. I hoped to be able to read each and every page of “Java persistence with Hibernate” (revised edition of “Hibernate in action”), by Christian Bauer and Gavin King. But, I gave up before reading a third of it, then I continued only reading some sections. [...]
In order to read Allen Holub's new book, you'll certainly need some programming skills (Java, OOP and patterns to be more specific). On the back of the book, there's specified 'Intermediate to Advanced'. It certainly depends on what you mean by 'Intermediate'… because the book is not exactly a light read. But then again, we [...]
A mini-review
The book already has stellar ratings on Amazon, JavaRanch and other select places, and after reading a few chapters, the only thing I can do is add this post on the praise list.
Why only a few chapters ? Well, you see, this is not exactly the type of book that you read from [...]
Disclaimer : this review is based on the MEAP draft. Things might be (a little) different in the final version.
From a documentation point of view, Hibernate is one of the most notable exception in the world of open-source LGPL'ed projects. Its website offers a plethora of information, from solid documentation (the reference has no [...]
My first contact with Tapestry was more than 18 months ago. Back then, I was interested to find a web framework for integration with our custom Avalon-based (using the now-obsoleted) Phoenix server*. The web interface was ment to be backoffice stuff, for simple administration tasks as well as statistics reports. Given that the data access [...]
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