Better, Faster, Lighter Java

Sometimes the simplest answer is the best. Many Enterprise Java developers, accustomed to dealing with Java's spiraling complexity, have fallen into the habit of choosing overly complicated solutions to problems when simpler options are available. Building server applications with "heavyweight" Java-based architectures, such as WebLogic, JBoss, and WebSphere, can be costly and cumbersome. When you've reached the point where you spend more time writing code to support your chosen framework than to solve your actual problems, it's time to think in terms of simplicity.

In Better, Faster, Lighter Java, authors Bruce Tate and Justin Gehtland argue that the old heavyweight architectures are unwieldy, complicated, and contribute to slow and buggy application code. As an alternative means for building better applications, the authors present two "lightweight" open source architectures: Hibernate--a persistence framework that does its job with a minimal API and gets out of the way, and Spring--a container that's not invasive, heavy or complicated.

Hibernate and Spring are designed to be fairly simple to learn and use, and place reasonable demands on system resources. Better, Faster, Lighter Java shows you how they can help you create enterprise applications that are easier to maintain, write, and debug, and are ultimately much faster.

Written for intermediate to advanced Java developers, Better, Faster, Lighter Java, offers fresh ideas--often unorthodox--to help you rethink the way you work, and techniques and principles you'll use to build simpler applications. You'll learn to spend more time on what's important. When you're finished with this book, you'll find that your Java is better, faster, and lighter than ever before.

Table of contents

1. Chapter 1 The Inevitable Bloat

   1. Bloat Drivers

   2. Options

   3. Five Principles for Fighting the Bloat

   4. Summary

2. Chapter 2 Keep It Simple

   1. The Value of Simplicity

   2. Process and Simplicity

   3. Your Safety Net

   4. Summary

3. Chapter 3 Do One Thing, and Do It Well

   1. Understanding the Problem

   2. Distilling the Problem

   3. Layering Your Architecture

   4. Refactoring to Reduce Coupling

   5. Summary

4. Chapter 4 Strive for Transparency

   1. Benefits of Transparency

   2. Who's in Control?

   3. Alternatives to Transparency

   4. Reflection

   5. Injecting Code

   6. Generating Code

   7. Advanced Topics

   8. Summary

5. Chapter 5 You Are What You Eat

   1. Golden Hammers

   2. Understanding the Big Picture

   3. Considering Technical Requirements

   4. Summary

6. Chapter 6 Allow for Extension

   1. The Basics of Extension

   2. Tools for Extension

   3. Plug-In Models

   4. Who Is the Customer?

   5. Summary

7. Chapter 7 Hibernate

   1. The Lie

   2. What Is Hibernate?

   3. Using Your Persistent Model

   4. Evaluating Hibernate

   5. Summary

8. Chapter 8 Spring

   1. What Is Spring?

   2. Pet Store: A Counter-Example

   3. The Domain Model

   4. Adding Persistence

   5. Presentation

   6. Summary

9. Chapter 9 Simple Spider

   1. What Is the Spider?

   2. Examining the Requirements

   3. Planning for Development

   4. The Design

   5. The Configuration Service

   6. The Crawler/Indexer Service

   7. The Search Service

   8. The Console Interface

   9. The Web Service Interface

   10. Extending the Spider

10. Chapter 10 Extending jPetStore

    1. A Brief Look at the Existing Search Feature

    2. Replacing the Controller

    3. The User Interface (JSP)

    4. Setting Up the Indexer

    5. Making Use of the Configuration Service

    6. Adding Hibernate

    7. Summary

11. Chapter 11 Where Do We Go from Here?

    1. Technology

    2. Process

    3. Challenges

    4. Conclusion

12. Chapter 12 Bibliography

    1. Books

    2. Referenced Internet Sources

    3. Helpful Internet Sources

    4. Other References

       
       
       
       
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