Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133 EAN: 9780596006761 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 0596006764 Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 262 Publication Date: May 28, 2004 Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Sales Rank: 338025 Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Product DescriptionSometimes the simplest answer is the best. Many Enterprise Java developers, accustomed to dealing with Java's spiraling complexity, have fallen into the habit of choosing overly complicated solutions to problems when simpler options are available. Building server applications with 'heavyweight' Java-based architectures, such as WebLogic, JBoss, and WebSphere, can be costly and cumbersome. When you've reached the point where you spend more time writing code to support your chosen framework than to solve your actual problems, it's time to think in terms of simplicity. In Better, Faster, Lighter Java, authors Bruce Tate and Justin Gehtland argue that the old heavyweight architectures are unwieldy, complicated, and contribute to slow and buggy application code. As an alternative means for building better applications, the authors present two 'lightweight' open source architectures: Hibernate--a persistence framework that does its job with a minimal API and gets out of the way, and Spring--a container that's not invasive, heavy or complicated. Hibernate and Spring are designed to be fairly simple to learn and use, and place reasonable demands on system resources. Better, Faster, Lighter Java shows you how they can help you create enterprise applications that are easier to maintain, write, and debug, and are ultimately much faster. Written for intermediate to advanced Java developers, Better, Faster, Lighter Java, offers fresh ideas--often unorthodox--to help you rethink the way you work, and techniques and principles you'll use to build simpler applications. You'll learn to spend more time on what's important. When you're finished with this book, you'll find that your Java is better, faster, and lighter than ever before.
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Rating: - Refactoring will not save your soul
The book starts off well and the author makes several good points about having lighter objects and not being tied to a particular framework, but then it digresses into refactoring evangelism. Despite what this apologist believes, design cannot be neglected altogether as refactoring becomes more and more expensive as a system grows larger and parts get more complex. Just look at all the items still left over from Java 1.0 or 1.1. How many methods has Sun deprecated that are still around? Take ... Read More
Rating: - A Book Not Just for the Java World
I recommend the first set of chapters in this book for EVERYONE. While it helps to know J2EE/EJB to step through the examples, the author provides a wonderful, thought-provoking and inspiring coverage of software design in general.
The first pieces of the book (actually, up to Chapter 7: Hibernate) discuss the joys and perils of simplistic approaches, over-architecting, under-architecting, evaluating available libraries/APIs, etc.
This is a great coverage of the software ... Read More
Rating: - keep it simple
This is a great book. It compares different tools, and shows how to keep things simple and maintainable. Whether it's common sense, like other reviewers wrote, depends on your experiences.
It's easy to get overwhelmed by all the different Java tool acronymns- this is a sane response to all the marketing based feature creep.
If you are a beginning/intermediate programmer, I think this is a worthwhile read.
Rating: - simple and homely; not a good technical book
They work on five basic principles which, as another reviewer hints, makes it read a little like Covey and that is bad. Covey is a snakeoil salesman who reinvents his time management systems every three years to sell a new book. This book with its daddy Walton house building and kayaking action man morality tales is all quite patronizing.
The home spun tales seem to be Tate's, so I assume Gehtland does the coding. Unfortunately I don't think he read the book since he does not follow the ... Read More
Rating: - Mixed Feelings
I loved the premise of this book, because I, too, believe that Java - and programming in general - is getting out of control. Languages, frameworks, and products are adding so many features that it is now literally impossible to have a handle on the language - or even the subset - that you are using. Gone are the days where you can sit and try to figure something out; now programming seems to have boiled down to finding code you can cut and paste (Can you really figure out how to implement, say, an SSL ... Read More
- Refactoring will not save your soul
- keep it simple
- simple and homely; not a good technical book
