Read Japanese Today
By Len Walsh

* Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Co.
* Number Of Pages: 160
* Publication Date: 1969-01
* Sales Rank: 101808
* ISBN / ASIN: 0804804966
* EAN: 0676251804966
* Binding: Paperback
* Manufacturer: Charles E. Tuttle Co.
* Studio: Charles E. Tuttle Co. Read Japanese Today - Len Walsh (1969)

It's not really a learn Japanese book. This is a story-like book, that introduces Kanji word construction and origins based upon original Chinese idiograms and includes Japanese pronounciations. It's a great way to start to familiarise yourself with the Kanji and the great stories that lie behind them. Can be used as a companion to Japanese studies or just aas an interesting read

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Corporate Finance: A Focused Approach
By Michael C. Ehrhardt,&nbspEugene F. Brigham,

* Publisher: South-Western College Pub
* Number Of Pages: 736
* Publication Date: 2002-07-24
* Sales Rank: 595419
* ISBN / ASIN: 0324180357
* EAN: 9780324180350
* Binding: Hardcover
* Manufacturer: South-Western College Pub
* Studio: South-Western College Pub Book Description:

Drawing from their experience with comprehensive textbooks Ehrhardt & Brigham focus on the critical financial concepts, skills, and technological applications required by every MBA in the 21st century workplace. The result is a lean textbook that (1) provides an in-depth treatment of all essential topics in corporate finance yet (2) can be covered in its entirely in a single semester.

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Enterprise Java 2 Security: Building Secure and Robust J2EE Applications
By Marco Pistoia,&nbspNataraj Nagaratnam,&nbspLarry Koved,&nbspAnthony Nadalin,

* Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
* Number Of Pages: 416
* Publication Date: 2004-02-17
* Sales Rank: 652539
* ISBN / ASIN: 0321118898
* EAN: 0076092018827
* Binding: Paperback
* Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
* Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional Summary:
Book Info:

"For a long time, there has been a need for a J2EE(TM) security book. I am very happy to see there is now a book that can answer many of the technical questions that developers, managers, and researchers have about such a critical topic. I am sure that this book will contribute greatly to the success of the J2EE platform and e-business."
-From the Foreword by Steven A. Mills, Senior Vice President and Group Executive, Software Group, IBM Corporation

Enterprise Java(TM) Security: Building Secure J2EE(TM) Applications provides application developers and programmers with the know-how they need to utilize the latest Java security technologies in building secure enterprise infrastructures. Written by the leading Java security experts at IBM, this comprehensive guide covers the current status of the Java(TM) 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), and Java(TM) 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE(TM)), security architectures and offers practical solutions and usage patterns to address the challenges of Java security.

To aid developers who need to build secure J2EE applications, Enterprise Java(TM) Security covers at length the J2EE security technologies, including the security aspects of servlets, JavaServer Pages(TM) (JSP(TM)), and Enterprise JavaBeans(TM) (EJB(TM))�technologies that are at the core of the J2EE architecture. In addition, the book covers Web Services security.

Examples and sample code are provided throughout the book to give readers a solid understanding of the underlying technology.

The relationship between Java and cryptographic technologies is covered in great detail, including:

- Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA)
- Java Cryptography Extension (JCE)
- Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS)
- Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME)
- Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE)

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Enterprise Knowledge Infrastructures
By Ronald Maier,&nbspThomas Hädrich,&nbspRené Peinl,

Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 385
Publication Date: 2005-05-31
Sales Rank: 1703502
ISBN / ASIN: 3540239154
EAN: 9783540239154
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer
Book Description:

Success of an organization is increasingly dependent on its capability to create an environment to improve the productivity of knowledge work. This book focuses on the concepts, models and technologies that are used to design and implement such an environment. It develops the vision of a modular, yet highly integrated enterprise knowledge infrastructure and presents an ideal architecture replete with current technologies and systems. The most important streams of technological development that are covered in the book are computer-supported cooperative work, document and content management, e-learning, enterprise portals, information life cycle management, knowledge management, mobile computing, and the Semantic Web. It includes learning goals, exercises and case examples that help the reader to easily understand and practice the concepts.

The book is targeted at advanced bachelor and master students. Practitioners profit from insights into the importance of technologies and systems and their application.

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Control of Robot Manipulators in Joint Space (Advanced Textbooks in Control and Signal Processing)
By R. Kelly,&nbspV. Santibáñez,&nbspA. Loría,

Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 426
Publication Date: 2005-08-23
Sales Rank: 1037828
ISBN / ASIN: 1852339942
EAN: 9781852339944
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer Book Description:

Robot control is the backbone of robotics, an essential discipline in the maintenance of high quality and productivity in modern industry. The most common method of control for industrial robotic manipulators relies on the measurement and amendment of joint displacement: so-called "joint-space control".

Control of Robot Manipulators in Joint Space addresses robot control in depth, treating a range of model-based controllers in detail: proportional derivative; proportional integral derivative; computed torque and some adaptive variants. Using varying combinations of the text’s four parts:

• robot dynamics and mathematical preliminaries;
• set-point model-based control;
• tracking model-based control; and
• adaptive and velocity-independent control

A complete course in robot control based on joint space can be constructed for senior undergraduates or masters students. Other areas of study important to robotics, such as kinematics, receive attention within the case studies which are based around a 2-degrees-of-freedom planar articulated arm termed the Pelican prototype and used throughout to test the examined controllers by experimentation.

In addition to the written text, auxiliary resources are available in the form of pdf projector presentations for the instructor to use in lectures and as printed class aids for students, and a pdf solutions manual. All of this labour-saving supplementary material can be downloaded from the Springer website.

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A Basic English Grammar
By John Eastwood,&nbspRonald Mackin,

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: 1984-12
Sales Rank:
ISBN / ASIN: 0194329410
EAN: 9780194329415
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
Studio: Oxford University Press

It can be used as an exercise book to accompany any coursebook up to intermediate level.
A Basic English Grammar: Exercises, contains 210 contextualized exercises. It covers the grammatical structures and communicative functions that are generally taught in the first three or four years of English.
The neat and attractive layout makes the content readily accessible to both students and teachers

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Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots
By Gareth Branwyn

Publisher: Que
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2003-09-29
Sales Rank: 295397
ISBN / ASIN: 0789729717
EAN: 0029236729714
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Que
Studio: Que Book Description:

Finally, a robots book for people who don't know the first thing about robotics! Absolute Beginner's Guide to Robots is well-written, inviting, and action-packed, with engaging ideas and fascinating factoids about robots and robot-related arts and sciences. You are led gently into the intimidating world of robotics, but nearly 400 pages later, you emerge with a respectable knowledge of robot history, the major fields and "schools" of robotics today, and the basic skills and resources needed to create hobby robots. By the end of the book, you will be the proud owner of three bots, the first two of which demonstrate key robotic principles. The third is a programmable/expandable robot, which serves as a platform for future experimentation. And best of all, these robots are built with simple to get and inexpensive parts - many of which you already have around the house!

Finally, a robots book for people who don't know the first thing about robotics! Absolute Beginner's Guide to Robots is well-written, inviting, and action-packed, with engaging ideas and fascinating factoids about robots and robot-related arts and sciences. You are led gently into the intimidating world of robotics, but nearly 400 pages later, you emerge with a respectable knowledge of robot history, the major fields and "schools" of robotics today, and the basic skills and resources needed to create hobby robots. By the end of the book, you will be the proud owner of three bots, the first two of which demonstrate key robotic principles. The third is a programmable/expandable robot, which serves as a platform for future experimentation. And best of all, these robots are built with simple to get and inexpensive parts - many of which you already have around the house!

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Web Mapping Illustrated: Using Open Source GIS Toolkits
By Tyler Mitchell

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Pages: 367
Publication Date: 2005-06-17
Sales Rank: 31734
ISBN / ASIN: 0596008651
EAN: 9780596008659
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Book Description:

With the help of the Internet and accompanying tools, creating and publishing online maps has become easier and rich with options. A city guide web site can use maps to show the location of restaurants, museums, and art venues. A business can post a map for reaching its offices. The state government can present a map showing average income by area. Developers who want to publish maps on the web often discover that commercial tools cost too much and hunting down the free tools scattered across Internet can use up too much of your time and resources. Web Mapping Illustrated shows you how to create maps, even interactive maps, with free tools, including MapServer, OpenEV, GDAL/OGR, and PostGIS. It also explains how to find, collect, understand, use, and share mapping data, both over the traditional Web and using OGC-standard services like WFS and WMS. Mapping is a growing field that goes beyond collecting and analyzing GIS data. Web Mapping Illustrated shows how to combine free geographic data, GPS, and data management tools into one resource for your mapping information needs so you don't have to lose your way while searching for it. Remember the fun you had exploring the world with maps? Experience the fun again with Web Mapping Illustrated. This book will take you on a direct route to creating valuable maps.

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The Woman Men Adore... and Never Want to Leave
Author: Bob Grant
Paperback: 115 pages
Language: English
Format: PDF For Women Only...

"The Woman Men Adore...and Never Want to Leave" will give you the insights that will change your relationships with men forever. These insights will work whether or not your man (or any man for that matter) wants to be influenced by you or not...

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The Executive's Guide to Information Technology
By Jon Piot,&nbspJohn Baschab,

Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 498
Publication Date: 2003-04-04
Sales Rank: 289855
ISBN / ASIN: 0471266094
EAN: 9780471266099
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Wiley
Studio: Wiley Book Description:

The Executive's Guide to Information Technology is a sophisticated and comprehensive guide to running a cost-effective, efficient, and business delivery-focused corporate Information Technology (IT) unit. Eschewing the theoretical for the practical, the book gives managers the guidance they need to handle any problem effectively. It provides specific policies, approaches, and tools for each critical IT management functionó from application management to vendor management.

IT management experts John Baschab and Jon Piot provide the techniques IT managers and executives need to accurately assess their current operations. Further, they offer a step-by-step improvement plan designed to raise productivity and service levels while reducing costs significantly. The authors begin by examining the symptoms and causes of waste, inefficiency and underperformance in typical IT departments before offering in-depth analysis of each operational area of IT management. They present current and emergent best practices for transforming the department into a world-class service organization.

Packed with prescriptive advice and hard-earned insight, this comprehensive resource is organized into stand-alone chapters that provide quick access to important information when managers need it. In addition, spreadsheets, documents, and checklists are designed to aid in planning and decision-making and can be easily accessed on the included CD-ROM.

Designed to help IT managers and top executives get the most out of their departments, their budget and themselves, the book covers such topics as: managing the department, establishing leadership roles, assessing the organization, cost management, project demand management, operations management, infrastructure planning, vendor selection and management, technical standards setting, investment evaluation, and productivity and quality measurement programs.

With The Executive's Guide to Information Technology, IT managers will understand the main sources of waste in their departments, identify major management issues, learn and implement critical steps toward improvement, and manage more effectively. The book will help managers improve their performance and stature within their organizations by providing the tips and tools to overcome typical areas of friction and miscommunication between IT departments and other business functions. Executives will understand how to work effectively with the CIO or IT director, as well as provide constructive management input to the IT function, achieving the best return on their IT assets.

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Indefinite Linear Algebra and Applications
By Israel Gohberg,&nbspPeter Lancaster,&nbspLeiba Rodman,

Publisher: Birkhauser
Number Of Pages: 357
Publication Date: 2005-12-19
Sales Rank: 1019306
ISBN / ASIN: 3764373490
EAN: 9783764373498
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Birkhauser
Studio: Birkhauser Book Description:

This graduate text provides a careful treatment of the theory and applications of matrices in the presence of an indefinite inner product. The theory is a natural extension of the classical theory of hermitian and unitary matrices in linear algebra. Applications of the theory to differential equations, difference equations and systems theory are included.

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Java Security Solutions
By Rich Helton,&nbspJohennie Helton,

Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 600
Publication Date: 2002-05-01
Sales Rank: 916361
ISBN / ASIN: 0764549286
EAN: 0785555105881
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Wiley
Studio: Wiley
Book Description:

* Provides practical solutions, not just principles of security.
* Offers an in depth toolkit to the reader and explains how to use the tools to build a secure system.
* Introduces concepts of security patterns for designing systems, as well as security building blocks for systems.
* Discusses algorithms, cryptography and architecture.
* Addresse security for different application servers.

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Convex Functional Analysis (Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications)
By Andrew J. Kurdila,&nbspMichael Zabarankin,

Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Number Of Pages: 228
Publication Date: 2005-08-10
Sales Rank: 1233005
ISBN / ASIN: 3764321989
EAN: 9783764321987
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Basel
Studio: Birkhäuser Basel

Book Description:

This volume is dedicated to the fundamentals of convex functional analysis. It presents those aspects of functional analysis that are extensively used in various applications to mechanics and control theory. The purpose of the text is essentially two-fold. On the one hand, a bare minimum of the theory required to understand the principles of functional, convex and set-valued analysis is presented. Numerous examples and diagrams provide as intuitive an explanation of the principles as possible. On the other hand, the volume is largely self-contained. Those with a background in graduate mathematics will find a concise summary of all main definitions and theorems.

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Computer Security and Cryptography
By Alan G. Konheim

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: 2007-01-29
Sales Rank: 197069
ISBN / ASIN: 0471947830
EAN: 9780471947837
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience
Studio: Wiley-Interscience Book Description:

Gain the skills and knowledge needed to create effective data security systems

This book updates readers with all the tools, techniques, and concepts needed to understand and implement data security systems. It presents a wide range of topics for a thorough understanding of the factors that affect the efficiency of secrecy, authentication, and digital signature schema. Most importantly, readers gain hands-on experience in cryptanalysis and learn how to create effective cryptographic systems.

The author contributed to the design and analysis of the Data Encryption Standard (DES), a widely used symmetric-key encryption algorithm. His recommendations are based on firsthand experience of what does and does not work.

Thorough in its coverage, the book starts with a discussion of the history of cryptography, including a description of the basic encryption systems and many of the cipher systems used in the twentieth century. The author then discusses the theory of symmetric- and public-key cryptography. Readers not only discover what cryptography can do to protect sensitive data, but also learn the practical limitations of the technology. The book ends with two chapters that explore a wide range of cryptography applications.

Three basic types of chapters are featured to facilitate learning:

• Chapters that develop technical skills
• Chapters that describe a cryptosystem and present a method of analysis
• Chapters that describe a cryptosystem, present a method of analysis, and provide problems to test your grasp of the material and your ability to implement practical solutions

With consumers becoming increasingly wary of identity theft and companies struggling to develop safe, secure systems, this book is essential reading for professionals in e-commerce and information technology. Written by a professor who teaches cryptography, it is also ideal for students.

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AutoCAD: Secrets Every User Should Know
By Dan Abbott

Publisher: Sybex
Number Of Pages: 446
Publication Date: 2007-01-10
Sales Rank: 148218
ISBN / ASIN: 0470109939
EAN: 9780470109939
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Sybex
Studio: Sybex Book Description:

Discover Powerful Techniques and Features That Most Users Overlook

Whether you're designing houses, landscapes, or machines, there are AutoCAD tricks-of-the-trade that even seasoned users don't know�tips that can improve your skills, understanding, and productivity. This practical, in-depth book reveals those secrets. You'll find smart ideas on customization, applying graphics standards, managing symbol libraries, leveraging 3D, and more. It even includes an insider's look at features that are used in the field but often ignored in other books, such as DOS functions, scripts, and AutoLISP® programming. The final chapter, AutoCAD Puzzlers, challenges readers to solve real problems from real AutoCAD users.

• Explore real-world solutions and best practices. Is it faster to produce an accurate drawing or an inaccurate one? Find out why you should take technical graphics standards seriously and how to make AutoCAD apply them
• Harness information rarely found in other books, such as how to rapidly change thousands of drawings using scripts and batch files, how to use the Visual LISP® editor to produce and debug AutoLISP programs, and more
• Take full advantage of AutoCAD's interface to improve your productivity
• Enjoy bonus extras, including the AutoLISP programs, other code used in the book, and a review of key features by release

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• Publisher: Pearson Education
• Number Of Pages: 224
• Publication Date: 2002-07-19
• Sales Rank: 684415
• ISBN / ASIN: 0201844575
• EAN: 0785342844573
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Pearson Education
• Studio: Pearson Education

Valuable read for the XP/Agile devotee

I'll tell you at the outset I'm a big fan of agile programming. I lived through many years of waterfall development and all the pain that ensued. Having been convinced of the power and flexibility of Agile methodologies though hands on expereince there is *no* going back (never say never, eh?).

Although this book is written to debunk XP (no matter what the intro says), it doesn't do that job. What is does do very well is raise many of the questions that anyone intersted in Agile should ask themselves -- no matter if they have been practicing agile methodologies for years, or if they are just thinking about it.

Even if your are a 100% died in the wool fan of agile/XP/whatever - this is a very valuable book. It'll cause you to think and question. And that is always good.

• Publisher: IBM Press
• Number Of Pages: 576
• Publication Date: 2004-11-15
• Sales Rank: 123163
• ISBN / ASIN: 0131477005
• EAN: 0076092035589
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: IBM Press
• Studio: IBM Press

embed yourself in db2

The book describes IBM's Procedural Language, which runs on their db2 servers. It is not a general purpose language, like C or Java. Rather, it is tied directly to db2 and IBM's implementation of SQL. But within this context, the book explains the expressive power of PL. It shows at length how you can write stored procedures, triggers and functions in PL. The level of detail and the cited examples should reassure you of PL's capability.

But why even write business logic code at the database layer? There have been other books on n-tier application design, which call for the locating of business logic in a middle tier and not at the database. The authors' rejoinder is that while that makes for an elegant design, practical experience shows that often, crucial logic needs to be at the database. This reduces networks traffic and can heavily improve perforance. Hence the need for PL, or something like it.

Be wary of the book's claim that PL lets you write "portable application logic". It is portable only between instances of db2 running under linux, unix, Microsoft Windows or IBM's operating systems. When you write embedded logic in PL, you are also embedding yourself or your company into db2. Which may indeed be fine by you. But just so you know.

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• Publisher: Apress
• Number Of Pages: 819
• Publication Date: 2004-05-17
• Sales Rank: 319988
• ISBN / ASIN: 159059360X
• EAN: 9781590593608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Apress
• Studio: Apress

Learning to design objects effectively with C# is the goal of
Beginning C# Objects: From Concepts to Code - a comprehensive yet approachable guide to object oriented programming using UML and today's hottest programming language, which is C#.

This book is a guide for anyone wanting to learn the C# language, beginning with the basics. It offers example case studies for those already familiar with C# that may prove useful. Presents object terminology and concepts, how to think in terms of objects, an introduction of object modeling, translating an object model into C#, and more. This book is written with programmers and also programming tutorials in mind, and is a natural candidate for academic selection for the teaching of C# and principled object-oriented programming.

Time and again, software developers have attempted to master an OO programming language like Java by taking a course in Java, or by reading a book in Java, or by acquiring and using a Java integrated development environment (IDE) tool such as Forte, or Visual Café, or JBuilder, or Power J, or Kawa. However, there is something fundamentally missing: a basic understanding of what objects are all about, and more importantly, knowledge of how to structure a software application from the ground up to make the most of objects.

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• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
• Number Of Pages: 672
• Publication Date: 2001-06
• Sales Rank: 226855
• ISBN / ASIN: 1565924150
• EAN: 0636920924159
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
• Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
• Book Description:
  

  Getting data across platforms and formats is a cornerstone of present-day applications development. ADO: ActiveX Data Objects is both an introduction and a complete reference to ADO (ActiveX Data Objects), Microsoft's universal data access solution. You'll learn how to easily access data in multiple formats--such as email messages, Access databases, Word documents, and SQL databases--even on different platforms, without spending extra time learning every last detail about each format. Author Jason Roff shows by example how to use ADO with your programming language of choice to save programming time, so you can concentrate on the content and quality of your application rather than the nitty-gritty of specific data formats. ADO: ActiveX Data Objects includes:

• Chapters dedicated to the Connection, Recordset, Field, and Command objects and the Properties collection
• A complete, detailed reference listing every ADO object, method, property, and event, in convenient alphabetical order
• Chapters on ADO architecture, data shaping, the ADO Event Model
• An appendix containing enumeration tables used by ADO objects and collections, listed alphabetically
• Brief introductions to RDS, ADO.NET, and SQL

• Publisher: Omnigraphics, Inc./Thomson Gale
• Number Of Pages: 925
• Publication Date: July 2006
• ISBN / ASIN: 0780809823 (eBook)

Revised and expanded, this now-classic compendium describes 2,500 holidays, festivals, commemorations, holy days, feasts and fasts, and other observances from all parts of the world. The entries cover popular, ethnic, religious, and historic events of international, national, regional, and local significance. This multi-purpose dictionary is ideal for schools and public libraries, religious organizations, community affairs groups, and others interested in learning about festive events.
What's New for the Third Edition

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Core JavaServer(TM) Faces, Second Edition (2nd Edition) (Core Series)
By David Geary,&nbspCay Horstmann,

Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Number Of Pages: 752
Publication Date: 2007-05-08
Sales Rank: 4466
ISBN / ASIN: 0131738860
EAN: 9780131738867
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
Studio: Prentice Hall PTR Book Description:

JavaServer Faces (JSF) is quickly emerging as the leading solution for rapid user interface development in Java-based server-side applications. Now, Core JavaServer™ Faces�the #1 guide to JSF�has been thoroughly updated in this second edition, covering the latest feature enhancements, the powerful Ajax development techniques, and open source innovations that make JSF even more valuable.

Authors David Geary and Cay Horstmann delve into all facets of JSF 1.2 development, offering systematic best practices for building robust applications, minimizing handcoding, and maximizing productivity. Drawing on unsurpassed insider knowledge of the Java platform, they present solutions, hints, tips, and “how-tos� for writing superior JSF 1.2 production code, even if you’re new to JSF, JavaServer Pages™, or servlets.

The second edition’s extensive new coverage includes: JSF 1.2’s improved alignment with the broader Java EE 5 platform; enhancements to the JSF APIs; controlling Web flow with Shale; and using Facelets to replace JSP with XHTML markup. The authors also introduce Ajax development with JSF�from real-time validation and Direct Web Remoting to wrapping Ajax in JSF components and using the popular Ajax4jsf framework.

This book will help you

• Automate low-level details and eliminate unnecessary complexity in server-side development
• Discover JSF best practices, ranging from effective UI design and style sheets to internationalization
• Use JSF with Tiles to build consistent, reusable user interfaces
• Leverage external services such as databases, LDAP directories, authentication/authorization, and Web services
• Use JBoss Seam to greatly simplify development of database-backed applications
• Implement custom components, converters, and validators
• Master the JSF 1.2 tag libararies, and extend JSF with additional tag libraries

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• Publisher: Wiley
• Number Of Pages: 450
• Publication Date: 2005-08-26
• Sales Rank: 9342
• ISBN / ASIN: 0764588877
• EAN: 9780764588877
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Wiley
• Studio: Wiley
• Book Description:
  
• Fans will get bent out of shape if they miss the first book to cover circuit-bending-"bending," for short-the method by which an electronic toy or a device such as a keyboard is short-circuited and modified to create an entirely different sound
• Written by the inventor of the technology, this book covers the tools of the trade, shows how to build a bending workshop, and reveals secrets that will have readers of all levels making sweet music in no time
• Readers learn basic bends, body contacts, and other bending skills, as well as ways to create bent instruments from a variety of popular toys and electronic devices
• Features some of the author's own unique creations

Fans will get bent out of shape if they miss the first book to cover circuit-bending-""bending,"" for short-the method by which an electronic toy or a device such as a keyboard is short-circuited and modified to create an entirely different sound Written by the inventor of the technology, this book covers the tools of the trade, shows how to build a bending workshop, and reveals secrets that will have readers of all levels making sweet music in no time Readers learn basic bends, body contacts, and other bending skills, as well as ways to create bent instruments from a variety of popular toys and electronic devices Features some of the author's own unique creations

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