Author(s) : Jeff Linwood, Dave Minter Publisher : Apress; 3 edition Date       : 2006 Pages     : 360 Format    : PDF ISBN       : 1590596935

Beginning Hibernate is ideal if youre experienced in Java with databases (the traditional, or "connected," approach), but are new to open source lightweight Hibernatethe most popular de facto object-relational mapping and database-oriented application development framework. This book packs in brand new information about the latest release of the Hibernate 3.2.x persistence layer and provides a clear introduction to the current standard for object-relational persistence in Java.

Experienced author Dave Minter and contributor Jeff Linwood provide more in-depth examples than any other books for Hibernate beginners. The authors also present material in a lively, example-based mannernot in a dry, theoretical, hard-to-read fashion. And since the book keeps its focus on Hibernate without wasting time on nonessential third-party tools, youll be able to immediately start building transaction-based engines and applications.

Hibernate is an amazing piece of software. With a little experience and the power of Java 5 annotations, you can build a complex database-backed system with disturbing ease. Once you have built a system using Hibernate, you will never want to go back to the traditional approaches. While Hibernate is incredibly powerful, it presents a steep learning curve when you first encounter it?steep learning curves are actually a good thing, as they impart profound insight once you have scaled them. Yet gaining that insight takes some perseverance and assistance. Our aim in this book is to help you up that learning curve by presenting you with the minimal requirements of a discrete Hibernate application, explaining the basis of those requirements, and walking you through an example application built according to them. We then provide additional material to be digested once the fundamentals are firmly understood. Throughout, we provide examples rather than relying upon pure discourse. We hope that you will continue to find this book useful as a reference text long after you have become an expert on the subject.

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Author(s) : Elliotte Rusty Harold Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition Date       : 2002 Pages     : 1120 Format    : CHM ISBN       : 0201771861

Written for Java programmers who want to integrate XML into their systems, this practical, comprehensive guide and reference shows how to process XML documents with the Java programming language. It leads experienced Java developers beyond the basics of XML, allowing them to design sophisticated XML applications and parse complicated documents. Processing XML with Java provides a brief review of XML fundamentals, including XML syntax; DTDs, schemas, and validity; stylesheets; and the XML protocols XML-RPC, SOAP, and RSS. The core of the book comprises in-depth discussions on the key XML APIs Java programmers must use to create and manipulate XML files with Java. These include the Simple API for XML (SAX), the Document Object Model (DOM), and JDOM (a Java native API). In addition, the book covers many useful supplements to these core APIs, including XPath, XSLT, TrAX, and JAXP.

Practical in focus, Processing XML with JavaTis filled with over two hundred examples that demonstrate how to accomplish various important tasks related to file formats, data exchange, document transformation, and database integration. You will learn how to read and write XML documents with Java code, convert legacy flat files into XML documents, communicate with network servers that send and receive XML data, and much more. Readers will find detailed coverage of the following:
      * How to choose the right API for the job
      * Reading documents with SAX
      * SAX filters
      * Validation in several schema languages
      * DOM implementations for Java
      * The DOM Traversal Module
      * Output from DOM
      * Reading and writing XML documents with JDOM
      * Searching XML documents with XPath
      * Combining XSLT transforms with Java code
      * TrAX, the Transformations API for XML
      * JAXP, the Java API for XML Processing

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