Bruce Tate, author of the Jolt Award-winning Better, Faster, Lighter Java has an intriguing notion about the future of Java, and it’s causing some agitation among Java developers. Bruce believes Java is abandoning its base, and conditions are ripe for an alternative to emerge.

In Beyond Java, Bruce chronicles the rise of the most successful language of all time, and then lays out, in painstaking detail, the compromises the founders had to make to establish success. Then, he describes the characteristics of likely successors to Java. He builds to a rapid and heady climax, presenting alternative languages and frameworks with productivity and innovation unmatched in Java. He closes with an evaluation of the most popular and important programming languages, and their future role in a world beyond Java.

If you are agree with the book’s premise–that Java’s reign is coming to an end–then this book will help you start to build your skills accordingly. You can download some of the frameworks discussed and learn a few new languages. This book will teach you what a new language needs to succeed, so when things do change, you’ll be more prepared. And even if you think Java is here to stay, you can use the best techniques from frameworks introduced in this book to improve what you’re doing in Java today.

The Object-Oriented Thought Process, Second Edition will lay the foundation in object-oriented concepts and then explain how various object technologies are used. Author Matt Weisfeld introduces object-oriented concepts, then covers abstraction, public and private classes, reusing code, and devloping frameworks. Later chapters cover
building objects that work with XML, databases, and distributed systems (including EJBs, .NET, Web Services and more).Throughout the book Matt uses UML, the standard language for modeling objects, to provide illustration and examples of each concept.

Spring—the open source Java-based framework—allows you to build
lighter, better performing applications. Written by Spring insiders Rob
Harrop and Jan Machacek, Pro Spring is the only book endorsed
by Rod Johnson, founder of the Spring Framework. At over 800 pages,
this is by far the most comprehensive book available and thoroughly
explores the power of Spring. You’ll learn Spring basics and core
topics, as well as share the authors’ insights and real-world
experience with remoting, mail integration, hibernate, and EJB.

From the Foreword: “Rob’s enthusiasm for Spring—and technology in
general—is infectious. He has a wide range of industry experience and a
refreshingly practical, common sense approach to applying it. All those
qualities come out in this book. It’s evident on nearly every page that
it reflects in-depth experience with Spring and J2EE as a whole. Rob is
not only an author and open source developer—he is an application
developer, like his readers. I firmly believe that the best writing on
software development comes out of experience in the trenches, so this
is my kind of book.

If you’re new to Spring, this book will help you understand its core
concepts and the background in areas such as transaction management and
O/R mapping that underpins them. If you’re already using Spring, you
will learn about features you haven’t yet seen and hopefully, gain a
deeper understanding of those features you’re already using.”

This book focuses on the many enhancements in Sybase ASE 15 including
system administration enhancements, function-based indexes, computed
columns, scrollable cursors, galaxy optimizer, query plan, galaxy
partitions, multiple tempdb, MDA tables, andn Plan Viewer.

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