Expert Spring MVC and Web Flows shows you how to use the Spring web application development framework, part of the Spring Framework. This book covers Spring’s Model-View-Controller (MVC) code packages, HTTP, best practices for web application development, and integration with popular third-party utilities. Also featured is the new Spring Web Flow system, a cutting-edge workflow system introduced in Spring 1.3. The Web Flow system provides the perfect complement to the existing MVC system, rounding out Spring’s robust and powerful web development framework.

This book is a must-read for anyone desiring to bridge the gap between the most popular web framework and the most popular application framework. The book pays special attention to existing Apache Struts–based web applications. It explains different options for integrating Struts code to take advantage of the powerful Spring Framework. Authors Seth Ladd and Keith Donald develop a sample application over the course of the book and build on the application as a method for introducing new material. Further, they provide a porting guide detailing how to port a Struts application into Spring MVC.

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You’d be hard-pressed to find a published image that hasn’t spent some quality time in Adobe Photoshop. With new features such as Content-Aware Fill and Puppet Warp, Photoshop CS5 is more amazing — and perhaps more bewildering — than ever. That’s where this full-color Missing Manual comes in. It covers Photoshop from a practical standpoint, with tips, tricks, and practical advice you can use every day to edit photos and create beautiful documents.

Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced pixel pusher ready to try advanced techniques, author and graphics pro Lesa Snider offers crystal-clear, jargon-free instructions to help you take advantage of these powerful tools — not only how they work, but when you should use them. Describing the CS4 edition, bestselling Photoshop author Scott Kelby wrote, “Lesa did a great job on the book, and in my mind, it is the new Photoshop Bible.”

• Learn your way around Photoshop’s revamped workspace
• Get up to speed on essential features such as layers and channels
• Edit images by cropping, resizing, retouching, working with color, and more
• Create paintings and illustrations, work with text, and explore filters
• Prepare images for printing or the Web, and learn how to protect your images online
• Work smarter and faster by automating tasks and installing plug-ins

Written with the clarity, humor, and objective scrutiny, Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual is the friendly, thorough resource you need.

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Transform your organization into a personalized, user-focused workplace using the detailed information in this comprehensive Oracle Press guide. Oracle WebCenter 11g Handbook shows you how to build Enterprise 2.0 applications that facilitate collaboration and foster innovation. You’ll work with task flows and content systems, employ social networking tools, develop portals and composite applications, and deploy runtime customization. Debugging, security, and application tuning are also covered in this practical resource.

• Develop, test, and deploy dynamic enterprise applications, portals, and portlets
• Design data-backed rich Internet applications using Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle WebLogic Server
• Work with Oracle Content Server and Oracle Secure Enterprise Search
• Customize applications at runtime using Oracle Composer and metadata services
• Use the resource catalog to deliver personalized search results to end users
• Integrate RSS feeds, forums, wikis, and blogs with Oracle WebCenter social computing services
• Implement the latest Oracle Application Development Framework security tools
• Extend functionality using mashups, composite applications, and third-party add-ons
• Understand the Web 2.0 and portal technologies behind Oracle Fusion Applications

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From Windows Solitaire to Bejeweled to Wii Tennis, casual games have radically changed the landscape of games. By simplifying gameplay and providing quick but intense blasts of engaging play, casual games have drawn in huge new audiences of players. To entertain and engage the casual player, game designers must learn to think about what makes casual games work, from game mechanics to narrative content. Through the close examination of a number of casual games, you will learn how to inject the necessary game design elements into your casual games and give your designs the complexity and strategy they need to hook gamers.

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Want to get started building applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch? Already building iPhone applications and want to get better at it? This is the only book that brings together all the expert guidance–and the code–you’ll need!Completely revised and expanded to cover the iPhone 3.0 SDK, The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook is the essential resource for developers building apps for the iPhone and iPod touch. Taking you further than before, this new edition starts out with an introduction to Objective-C 2.0 for developers who might be new to the platform. You’ll learn about Xcode and Interface Builder and learn how to set up and configure your iPhone Developer account.

The unique format of The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook presents the code you need to create feature-rich applications that leverage the latest features of the iPhone 3.0 SDK. Over 30,000 iPhone developers turned to the first edition of The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook. So should you!

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This book will give you a thorough grounding in the principal and supporting tools and technologies that make up the Xcode Developer Tools suite. Apple has provided a comprehensive collection of developer tools, and this is the first book to examine the complete Apple programming environment for both Mac OS X and iPhone.

• Comprehensive coverage of all the Xcode developer tools
• Additional coverage of useful third-party development tools
• Not just a survey of features, but a serious examination of the complete development process for Mac OS X and iPhone applications

What you’ll learn

• The book is holistic, providing a comprehensive sweep across the available development tools.
• The book is structured, taking a logical and progressive journey from the basics to a firm understanding of the purposes, benefits, and limitations of each component of Xcode’s developer tools.
• The tone is friendly and accessible—we wouldn’t have it any other way.
• The book fills a niche—there is no other single book that focuses on this collection of developer tools.

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Today, Linux is included with nearly every embedded platform. Embedded developers can take a more modern route and spend more time tuning Linux and taking advantage of open source code to build more robust, feature-rich applications. While Gene Sally does not neglect porting Linux to new hardware, modern embedded hardware is more sophisticated than ever: most systems include the capabilities found on desktop systems. This book is written from the perspective of a user employing technologies and techniques typically reserved for desktop systems.

• Modern guide for developing embedded Linux systems
• Shows you how to work with existing Linux embedded system, while still teaching how to port Linux
• Explains best practices from somebody who has done it before

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Ready to transport your web applications into the Web 2.0 era? Head First Rails takes your programming — and productivity — to the max. You’ll learn everything from the fundamentals of Rails scaffolding to building customized interactive web apps using Rails’ rich set of tools and the MVC framework.

By the time you’re finished, you’ll have learned more than just another web framework. You’ll master database interactions, integration with Ajax and XML, rich content, and even dynamic graphing of your data — all in a fraction of the time it takes to build the same apps with Java, PHP, ASP.NET, or Perl. You’ll even get comfortable and familiar with Ruby, the language that underpins Rails. But you’ll do it in the context of web programming, and not through boring exercises such as “Hello, World!”

Your time is way too valuable to waste struggling with new concepts. Using the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory learning experience, Head First Rails uses a visually rich format designed to take advantage of the way your brain really works.

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Pentaho Data Integration (a.k.a. Kettle) is a full-featured open source ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) solution. Although PDI is a feature-rich tool, effectively capturing, manipulating, cleansing, transferring, and loading data can get complicated. This book is full of practical examples that will help you to take advantage of Pentaho Data Integration’s graphical, drag-and-drop design environment. You will quickly get started with Pentaho Data Integration by following the step-by-step guidance in this book. The useful tips in this book will encourage you to exploit powerful features of Pentaho Data Integration and perform ETL operations with ease.

Starting with the installation of the PDI software, this book will teach you all the key PDI concepts. Each chapter introduces new features, allowing you to gradually get involved with the tool. First, you will learn to work with plain files, and to do all kinds of data manipulation. Then, the book gives you a primer on databases and teaches you how to work with databases inside PDI. Not only that, you’ll be given an introduction to data warehouse concepts and you will learn to load data in a data warehouse. After that, you will learn to implement simple and complex processes.
Once you’ve learned all the basics, you will build a simple datamart that will serve to reinforce all the concepts learned through the book.

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