Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse

1. to Agile Java Development WHEN JAVA DEVELOPMENT KIT (JDK) v1.0 was released in January 1996, it was a fairly straightforward application programming interface (API). Over the years, Java has matured into...

2. The Sample Application: An Online Timesheet System [View full size image] IN THE REAL WORLD, A NEW SOFTWARE development project is typically initiated because there is some sort of a customer need, problem, or proce...

3. XP and AMDD-Based Architecture and Design Modeling IN THIS CHAPTER, WE FINALLY BEGIN to get into the technology side of things, so now begins the fun part. In a truly iterative development environment, a...

4. Environment Setup: JDK, Ant, and JUnit IN THIS CHAPTER, WE WILL get the bare-bones set of tools installed so we can begin to develop, build, test, and deploy our Java code. One of the goals of this book...

5. Using Hibernate for Persistent Objects WITHIN THE FIRST FEW YEARS OF my software development career, I came to realize more and more that information (data) is an organization's main asset; however, many...

6. Overview of the Spring Framework WHEN SUN MICROSYSTEMS INTRODUCED the Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) 1.0 specification a few years ago, I was excited at first and even wrote a relatively lengthy article in 199...

7. The Spring Web MVC Framework IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER, I gave you an overview of the Spring Framework. We looked at what Spring is, how it is packaged, and the various modules it contains. I also mentioned...

8. The Eclipse Phenomenon! UP TO THIS POINT IN THE BOOK, we have been working on the command line (to run Ant and JUnit, for example). Working on the command line could be viewed as contrary to agile develop...

9. Logging, Debugging, Monitoring, and Profiling [View full size image] LOGGING IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE that sometimes doesn't get the attention it deserves in various projects. Logging can be used for debugging, trouble...

10. Beyond the Basics WE HAVE COVERED A LOT OF foundational material and now it is time to go beyond the basics in this chapter. This is the last chapter with code examples; the next chapter will provide som...

11. What Next? WE HAVE COVERED A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT of material up to this point in the bookenough to build complete, robust, and enterprise-ready Java applications. However, hundreds of books are available...

12. Parting Thoughts I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS BOOK and found it useful. Given the intended size of the book, I couldn't cover everything I wanted to. However, my intention was to show you enough to build a co...