Press Release Summary: Apress continues to publish the ever important Spring Framework titles.
Press Release Body:
Apress is First to Publish Spring 2.5 Books
Pro Spring 2.5 Jan Machacek, Aleksa Vukotic, Anirvan Chakraborty and Jessica Ditt ISBN: 978-1-59059-921-1 $49.99 US, 920 pages Berkeley, CA—3 September 2008—The move from so-called heavyweight architectures, such as Enterprise JavaBeans, toward lightweight frameworks, like Spring, has not stopped since the original Pro Spring was published by Rob Harrop and Jan Machacek in 2005; in fact, it’s picked up pace. Today, the Spring Framework remains the leader in this move and provides a platform on which you can build your own applications and services. Recognizing this, Apress continues to deliver in Spring by being the first to publish on the Spring Framework 2.5. The SpringSource-endorsed Pro Spring 2.5 is the second Spring 2.5 book to be published by Apress, with the SpringSource-endorsed Spring Recipes (on Spring 2.5) by Gary Mak being the first published by Apress back in July. Pro Spring 2.5 covers the new and latest features of the Spring Framework 2.5, but moreover, it is focused on the best practices and core standards of contemporary Spring development. As members of the Spring development team at Cake Solutions, the authors bring extensive practical experience gained from working with Spring since version 1.0 and delivering successful systems on top of it. Developers will learn the approaches that really matter in a professional, enterprise-level environment, and can apply them to their own projects, safe in the knowledge that they just work. Rob Harrop, of SpringSource and co-author of bestselling Apress book Pro Spring, published in 2005, endorses the publication of Pro Spring 2.5, remarking: “The Spring Framework 2.5 release reflects the state of the art in both the Spring Framework and enterprise Java frameworks as a whole. A guidebook to this critical tool is necessary reading for any conscientious Java developer.” Highlights of Pro Spring2.5:
• Coverage of Spring’s Inversion of Control (IoC) • Spring’s excellent aspect-oriented programming (AOP) support, including Spring 2.5’s new @AspectJ feature • Spring’s dynamic scripting language features, Spring design patterns, and performance tuning in Spring applications • Exploration of Spring’s support for the JDBC framework, Hibernate, the Quartz enterprise scheduler, declarative transaction management, and much more • Discussion of how Spring’s well-designed MVC framework and adding Ajax to Spring web applications will empower developers to create flexible, efficient, and manageable applications using the best techniques available
To read more about Pro Spring 2.5 or the authors, or to view a table of contents and sample chapter, please select this title in our online catalog at www.apress.com.
Apress Authors: The Expert’s Voice
Jan Machacek is Technology Director at Cake Solutions Limited (www.cakesolutions.net), a UK-based software company. He has been an early adopter of Spring at Cake Solutions and has seen the dramatic change the Spring Framework has brought to the Java world. As part of his job, Jan architects and oversees the development of the majority of Cake’s projects. Where appropriate, Jan also applies his interest in declarative programming and artificial intelligence. Throughout his programming career, Jan has architected and implemented large J2EE and .NET systems for the UK government and large private sector bodies. When not programming, Jan enjoys foreign languages; he also enters races and time trials as a member of the Manchester Wheelers’ cycling club.
Jessica Ditt is a developer at Cake Solutions Limited. She joined the Cake team in 2005 and has worked on numerous enterprise-level projects, all of which were written using the Spring Framework. Jessica has been an early adopter of Spring Webflow at Cake and has become an expert in efficient indexing using Lucene and monitoring deployed systems using JMX. Out of the office, Jessica is a keen volleyball player.
Aleksa Vukotic is Senior Developer at Cake Solutions Limited. He joined Cake Solutions in June 2004. Since joining Cake, Aleksa has worked on numerous Java projects using the Spring Framework for a variety of clients. His work includes sophisticated systems for the UK government agencies. As part of his role at Cake, Aleksa helps other members of the team with some of the most complex problems, especially related to data access and MVC. He graduated in computer science and engineering at the School of Electrical Engineering, Belgrade University, Serbia. In his spare time, Aleksa enjoys nights out and computer games.
Anirvan Chakraborty is a Senior Developer at Cake Solutions Limited. Since becoming a member of the Cake team in 2006, Anirvan has worked on the more complex projects, including the UK government knowledge management system. Anirvan is a contributor to Lucene integration in the Spring Modules project. Prior to joining Cake, Anirvan completed his master’s degree in Internet software systems at the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. When not programming, Anirvan enjoys following sports like Cricket and Formula One. He also enjoys reading detective novels and watching movies. …
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Apress Inc., based in Berkeley, California, is the fastest-growing publisher of technical books in the world today. It is dedicated to meeting the needs of IT professionals, from novice to expert. Apress is devoted to publishing titles of the highest quality and has compiled a team of authors that is a “Who’s Who” of the high-tech industry.
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