Enterprise Application Development with Ext JS and Spring
Develop and deploy a high-performance Java web application using Ext JS and Spring
Gerald Gierer
(Packt Publishing paperback, Kindle)
A powerful JavaScript web framework such as Ext JS deserves a powerful platform for enterprise desktop application development. Gerald Gierer delivers a good one in his well-crafted new how-to book from Packt Publishing.
Gierer’s book is a bit unusual in today’s pare-it-down marketplace. It contains many before, during and after screen prints to illustrate the actions and outcomes of steps and commands. The 446-page book also has lengthy code listings that enable you to check and verify the outcomes of code changes you have made.
Ext JS and the Spring framework, however, are just a few of the packages that you work with as you set up your development tools and create, modify, expand, test and deploy a sample enterprise application (a task time tracker).
The other programs and tools include MySQL, the Java SE development kit (with the new Java API for JSON), NetBeans, Maven, Glassfish, and JUnit. And, with Ext JS, you learn to work with the Sencha Cmd tool and the Ext JS Software Development Kit (SDK).
But please note, particularly if you are new to some of this : You must pay careful attention to each paragraph as you load and configure software and as you keep building and enhancing your enterprise application.
In this book, it is easy start jumping from one screen print to the next, or from one code listing to the next, while skipping the intervening text. When you do, you can miss key steps that sometimes are buried without highlights in the wording.
This was my first time to work with some of the required software packages, so I had to force myself to really slow down and pay close attention to each paragraph, as well as each graphic. My initial development attempt went off the rails when I discovered, more than 100 pages into the book, that I had misconfigured a couple of tables, skipped a couple of data changes, and generally screwed up the database. And, being new to some of the software, I couldn’t figure out to repair everything. So I simply started over from scratch and this time moved carefully from one page to the next, closely checking code entries and the book’s text before clicking “Enter.” That made all the difference in my results.
If you are looking to do enterprise application development with a JavaScript framework, definitely consider Ext JS and definitely consider Gerald Gierer’s fine Enterprise Application Development with Ext JS and Spring.
And definitely take your time as you work your way through his book.
— Si Dunn
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