| | |  | Software Engineering | Home » » » Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse | | | | | | | Description: | | Agile Java™ Development With Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse is a book about robust technologies and effective methods which help bring simplicity back into the world of enterprise Java development. The three key technologies covered in this book, the Spring Framework, Hibernate and Eclipse, help reduce the complexity of enterprise Java development significantly. Furthermore, these technologies enable plain old Java objects (POJOs) to be deployed in light-weight containers versus heavy-handed remote objects that require heavy EJB containers. This book also extensively covers technologies such as Ant, JUnit, JSP tag libraries and touches upon other areas such as such logging, GUI based debugging, monitoring using JMX, job scheduling, emailing, and more. Also, Extreme Programming (XP), Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD) and refactoring are methods that can expedite the software development projects by reducing the amount of up front requirements and design; hence these methods are embedded throughout the book but with just enough details and examples to not sidetrack the focus of this book. In addition, this book contains well separated, subjective material (opinion sidebars), comic illustrations, tips and tricks, all of which provide real-world and practical perspectives on relevant topics. Last but not least, this book demonstrates the complete lifecycle by building and following a sample application, chapter-by-chapter, starting from conceptualization to production using the technology and processes covered in this book. In summary, by using the technologies and methods covered in this book, the reader will be able to effectively develop enterprise-class Java applications, in an agile manner! | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Anil Hemrajani | | Paperback:
| 360 pages | | Publisher:
| Sams | | Publication Date:
| May 19, 2006 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0672328968 | | Product Length:
| 9.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.04 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.81 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.23 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.93 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.79 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.19 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 47 reviews |
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99 of 108 found the following review helpful:
 Good idea, bad executionAug 03, 2006
By Gonzalo G. Braschi
I bought Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse just because I buy a lot of books. The idea behind it looked very nice. Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse form a very good development platform. I already knew this much. I had even used all of them, but I can always learn more.
The book is, according to the author, based on the development of an example project which is also a very good idea.
The problems begin when transforming those ideas into the reality of a book.
For starters, the book is poorly written/edited. The author gets ahead of himself a lot. "We'll see more on this later" - he says, and later can be a good eight to ten pages. Section and subsection titles seem to have random importance and chapters are strangely structured, as if you were listening to a presentation where the speaker hadn't bothered to order things.
"Now, I will explain this", "Now, I'll do that"... "Oh, and by the way, I hadn't said anything about this other thing. I'll mention it now even if it doesn't fit here".
The next *big* problem is the code. The book relies a lot on the code, but instead of inserting the code within context, it just comments a couple of selected lines and you're expected to follow along with the downloaded code on your computer.
This is a big turn off for me. I don't usually read books by the computer.
Then there's that thing about the author. Don't get me wrong. This is the first I've read from Mr. Hemrajani but I'm sure he's a great developer. But a good book, more so a book like this, should be about Agile Development, about Java, about Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse.
Sure, I do like an author who can express and convey his own views and opinions, his experience and know-how. But reading this, there's a feeling that this is all only about how _he_ does this or that. There're too many mentions on "this particular piece I wrote years ago about...", too many self-references and details which ultimately do not seem to be all that relevant.
To sum it up: The idea is very good, and you may still get good bits from the book. But it *needs* a very thorough re-write and editing work.
14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Mixed Bag of Info....Jan 08, 2007
By Francis Wong
"fwong"
Like a lot of other reviewers on Amazon - I was disappointed by this book. Granted -- its going to be difficult to cover multiple major topics like Spring, Hibernate, and Eclipse all in a single book...but this one tries.
I enjoyed Anil's stories about his real-world experience with Java technologies. But the level of detail in the book ranges wildly from 50,000 feet to 10 feet. At times, he is flying over concepts so quickly - its hard to realize they are important (ex: JUnit), and at other times, he gives step-by-step mouse clicks through an eclipse wizard as if the reader is a Freshman in High School.
I'm a software developer - and have been using eclipse for 4 years - and I never needed a manual to figure out how to use eclipse. I did however, need to read online docs and books in order to use the Spring Framework, Hibernate, and other topics such as Ant and JUnit effectively.
This book balances concepts differently than I expected. For example, the book spends 53 pages on Eclipse (chapter 8), but only 16 pages to Spring core (chapter 6), 34 pages to Spring MVC (chapter 7), and 32 pages to Hibernate.
He also categorizes Logging (log4j and JDK logging), and eclipse debugging (yes, even more pages about eclipse!) as "Advanced Features"
Personally - I find his distribution of coverage completely inverse to what a reader would expect. There's just too much time spent on no-brainer topics, and not enough time spent on real-world topics (hibernate, spring, junit). Counting pages isn't exactly a scientific way to review a book -- but it gives you a good idea of what the author was choosing to emphasize.
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Jack of three technologies, Master of noneJul 04, 2006
By George Jempty
"Insert pithy tagline here"
Agile Java Development would seem to be the natural successor to 2004's "J2EE Development without EJB". That volume's author, Rod Johnson, the creator of Spring, even contributes a one page forward to Anil Hemrajani's 2006 effort. "Agile Java Development" however is at best a "lite" version of it's predecessor. 300 pages just cannot do the topics justice; Mr Johnson' book was 500 pages and the current volume could have benefited from some more meat. There are very few source code examples in the book and while this is arguably better than page after page of code, it however crippled the book's usefulness when read while travelling and away from an internet connection.
Of the three technologies covered, Spring, Hibernate & Eclipse, I have the least experience with Hibernate, and even after finishing this volume, I feel like I know almost nothing about it. With regard to Eclipse, this book's coverage is significantly deficient when compared to just the 60-page first chapter of the second edition of "Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins." Lest that comparison seem unfair, in a volume as slim as "Agile Java Development", the author more than once commits the cardinal sin of repetition. Sure I learned about a couple of useful keystroke shortcut combinations for Eclipse, but I certainly didn't need to read about them twice in a 300-page volume.
This volume at best provides the barest of overviews of the covered technologies and processes, and is best suited for junior developers and managers.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Wonderful Intro to Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, and Agile developmentJun 05, 2006
By B. Buxton
"mad scientist in training"
If you are unfamiliar with any of the technologies listed, then this is a good book to help you get up to speed. Nowadays, it's hard to stay current on Java and the magnitude of open source frameworks available. Any of the technologies are too big to cover in one book. Anil gives you a short concise introduction on each that allows you to start your journey using these technologies. It's enough so that you know where to dig to find more information. Along the way, he gives lessons about agile development and how these technologies help support that. I've been loaning this book out to fellow team members and it's been great to get everyone up to speed.
The writing style is straightforward and honest. Anil gives his candid opinions along the way on development. I found this refreshing. You might not like everything he says and that's OK. They're more like recommendations and advice. I appreciated that they were included.
If you approach this book as a way to get up to speed on Eclipse, Spring, and Hibernate, then you will not be disappointed. It's much too short to give you all the details, but like is stated in the introduction: it's a roadmap.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Do not purchase this book if you don't need a 250 page resume!Jan 23, 2008
By Grease Man
I can not believe how anybody who has read this book would honestly give it a 5 star. I read the whole book, waiting for that moment that I could say: Oh, that's what the author meant by repeatedly saying: "more to come later" or "we'll see this in later chapter" etc. That moment never arrived. This book looks like a hurried and lousy compilation of 5 day presentations on each subject that this books claims to cover, without proper editing and attention to detail.
I read the book riding the metro in Washington DC and I can honestly say that I would rather see DC tourists block the left side of the escalators in the metro stations on a busy rush hour day than read or refer to this book again
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