Category: JVM

Attack of the Killer Parentheses: ‘Clojure in Action, 2nd Edition’ – #bookreview

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Clojure in Action, 2nd Edition Amit Rathore and Francis Avila Manning – paperback Clojure seems to be afflicted with a measles-like outbreak of parentheses, and it generally just looks strange to many software developers. And there’s a good reason for that, as this book’s two author point out in their recently released second edition. “Clojure’s … Continue reading Attack of the Killer Parentheses: ‘Clojure in Action, 2nd Edition’ – #bookreview

Groovy in Action, Second Edition – A hefty how-to guide newly updated for Groovy 2.4 – #programming #bookreview

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Groovy in Action, Second Edition Dierik König and Paul King, with Guillaume Laforge, Hamlet D’Arcy, Cédric Champeau, Eric Pragt and Jon Skeet Manning – paperback Groovy in Action, Second Edition, is not light reading. Indeed, the printed book weighs nearly three and a half pounds and has 880 pages. But it is great reading for anyone who wants … Continue reading Groovy in Action, Second Edition – A hefty how-to guide newly updated for Groovy 2.4 – #programming #bookreview

Java 8 in Action – Ready for lambdas, streams and functional-style programming? #bookreview

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  Java 8 in Action Lambdas, streams, and functional-style programming Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Mario Fusco, Alan Mycroft (Manning – paperback)  Java 8, we were sometimes assured, would just be Java 7 with a few slick new (or past-due) features added. Actually, now that it’s here, Java 8 represents “the biggest change to Java in the 18 years since Java … Continue reading Java 8 in Action – Ready for lambdas, streams and functional-style programming? #bookreview

Grails in Action, 2nd Edition – A (mostly) winning how-to guide to use with a winning web app framework – #programming #bookreview

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  Grails in Action, Second Edition Glen Smith and Peter Ledbrook (Manning – paperback) Grails finishes at or very near the top in almost any smackdown of full-stack web application frameworks that run on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). And this recently updated Grails in Action how-to book is mostly a clear winner, too. According to the … Continue reading Grails in Action, 2nd Edition – A (mostly) winning how-to guide to use with a winning web app framework – #programming #bookreview

Play for Java – Good intro to the Play 2 Java web framework – #programming #bookreview

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Play for Java Nicolas Leroux and Sietse de Kaper (Manning, paperback)   “There are,” co-author Nicolas Leroux writes, ” many Java web frameworks, but most of them have a key flaw: they try to hide the web behind an abstraction layer, rather than embracing it. That is the most important difference between Play and most other Java … Continue reading Play for Java – Good intro to the Play 2 Java web framework – #programming #bookreview

Making Java Groovy – An excellent how-to guide for Java developers – #programming #bookreview

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Making Java Groovy Kenneth A. Kousen (Manning, paperback) I have looked at a lot of programming how-to texts in recent years, and this is one of the best I have encountered. Kenneth A. Kousen does not try to get readers to abandon aging and bloated Java in favor of a language that’s sleeker, shinier and … Continue reading Making Java Groovy – An excellent how-to guide for Java developers – #programming #bookreview

Programming Groovy 2 – For the experienced Java developer seeking dynamic productivity – #programming #bookreview

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Programming Groovy 2 Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer Venkat Subramaniam (Pragmatic Bookshelf, paperback) The programming language Groovy has a bit of a checkered past. Before it reached Release 1 in early 2007, it was almost abandoned because of a series of development problems. But some dedicated developers reworked it, gave it new life, and … Continue reading Programming Groovy 2 – For the experienced Java developer seeking dynamic productivity – #programming #bookreview

Arquillian Testing Guide – For better integration testing & functional testing on the JVM – #programming #bookreview

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Arquillian Testing Guide John D. Ament (Packt Publishing – Paperback, Kindle) If you have some experience with integration testing and functional testing on a Java virtual machine (JVM), John D. Ament’s important new book can help you get up to speed with the Arquillian testing platform’s numerous features and capabilities. Arquillian “leverages JUnit and TestNG … Continue reading Arquillian Testing Guide – For better integration testing & functional testing on the JVM – #programming #bookreview

Book Brief – Programming Grails – A new, solid guide for experienced developers – #programming #bookreview

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Programming Grails Burt Beckwith (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle ) Burt Beckwith is an experienced core developer on the Grails software team at SpringSource. His new book, Programming Grails, is written primarily for experienced Grails developers “who want to dig deeper into the architecture and understand more about how Grails works its magic and how it … Continue reading Book Brief – Programming Grails – A new, solid guide for experienced developers – #programming #bookreview

JavaScript as Compilation Target: ClojureScript and Dart – #programming #bookreview

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Despite its widespread success, JavaScript has a reputation for being a computer language with many flaws. Still, it is now everywhere on the planet, so it is here to stay, very likely for a long, long time. Not surprisingly, several new languages have emerged that jump over some of JavaScript’s hurdles, offer improved capabilities, and … Continue reading JavaScript as Compilation Target: ClojureScript and Dart – #programming #bookreview