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Practical JIRA Plugins

By Matt Doar at 26 July, 2011, 9:05 pm

If you use JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, or project management, you may be familiar with the many plugins available for extending it. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar—the author of Practical JIRA Administration—shows you how to create and maintain JIRA plugins to meet a project’s specific needs. It’s an ideal supplement to the extensive documentation already available.

Functional Programming for Java Developers

By Dean Wampler at 26 July, 2011, 9:04 pm

Software development today is embracing functional programming (FP), whether it’s to write concurrent programs or to manage Big Data. Where does that leave Java developers? This concise book offers a pragmatic, approachable introduction to FP for Java developers or anyone who uses an object-oriented language. Using exercises in each chapter, you’ll learn how to apply FP principles to your Java code.

Just Spring

By O'Reilly Media, Inc. at 26 July, 2011, 7:31 pm

This example-driven introduction to the popular Spring Framework helps Java developers delve into its basic features, as well as advanced concepts such as containers. You’ll learn how Spring makes Java Messaging Service easier to work with, and how its support for Hibernate helps you work with data persistence and retrieval.

Jenkins: The Definitive Guide

By John Ferguson Smart at 20 July, 2011, 9:04 pm

Learn how to automate your build, integration, release and deployment process with Jenkins, the popular Java-based open source tool that has revolutionized the way teams think about continuous integration (CI). This concise guide shows you how to seamlessly include Jenkins in the development process—and demonstrates how CI can save you time, money, and many headaches.

Java Bibliography

By O'Reilly Media, Inc. at 15 July, 2011, 9:34 am

Open source software projects have used Java extensively to create some of the world’s most popular software libraries. These libraries have likely been one of the driving forces behind the creation of many of the JVM based language ports. Of course, people have to learn about how to use these libraries and languages, so the books written about Java are also varied in nature. There are a great many excellent learning reference books, class library reference books, and books on enterprise and web development. There are books that cover the Java Virtual Machine based languages mentioned earlier. The Spring Framework is a highly popular, open source, modular, infinitely configurable framework written in Java that is also covered well by technical book writers. Many games are written in Java, and we’ve included a few books on Game programming. If you are writing web services, you’ll want to read about Service Oriented Architecture as well as storing and retrieving data using one of the many Java persistence frameworks.

This bibliography covers the entire Java language, spanning from introductory to advanced topics. We hope you enjoy them and use them to your advantage.

Building and Testing with Gradle

By Tim Berglund, Matthew McCullough at 6 July, 2011, 7:31 pm

Build and test software written in Java and many other languages with Gradle, the open source tool that improves on the best ideas of Ant, Maven, and other project automation solutions. This concise introduction provides numerous code examples to help you explore Gradle, both as a build tool and as a complete solution for automating the compilation, test, and release process of simple and enterprise-level applications.

Clojure Programming: Rough Cuts Version

By O'Reilly Media, Inc. at 7 June, 2011, 6:35 pm

The Clojure language is a practical alternative for everyday programming that offers expressivity rivaling other dynamic languages like Ruby and Python, but allows one to seamlessly take advantage of Java libraries, services, and all of the resources of the JVM ecosystem. This book helps you learn the fundamentals of Clojure with examples relating it to the languages you know already—whether you’re focused on data modeling, concurrency and parallelism, web programming, statistics and data analysis, and more.

Practical JIRA Administration

By Matt Doar at 3 June, 2011, 10:05 pm

If you’re familiar with JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, and other uses, you know it can sometimes be tricky to set up and manage. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar answers difficult and frequently-asked questions about JIRA administration, and shows you how JIRA is intended to be used.

Code in the Cloud

By O'Reilly Media, Inc. at 22 April, 2011, 5:35 pm

Join the next wave of Web 2.0 software development in the cloud! Cloud applications are the next big shift in application development: instead of building single-user applications to run on a personal computer, new applications are being built as multi-user services that run in data centers around the world. One of the most exciting new environments for building services in the cloud is Google’s AppEngine. AppEngine is a powerful, easy-to-use framework for developing cloud-based services. This book will teach you what you need to make the shift to cloud development using AppEngine.

Learning Android

By Marko Gargenta at 21 March, 2011, 8:01 pm

If you’re new to the Android mobile operating system, Learning Android is the perfect way to master the fundamentals. This gentle introduction shows you how to use Android’s basic building blocks to develop user interfaces, store data, and more. You’ll build an example application throughout the course of book, adding new features with each chapter. You’ll also build your own toolbox of code patterns that will help you program any type of Android application with ease.