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Manning Publications announces the release of:
Bitter Java "It is the rare computer science book that truly captivates me. Bruce Tate has created one...I just couldn't put Bitter Java down."
-- Skip McCormick, co-author of "AntiPatterns" From the Forward of Bitter Java.
GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT - March 13, 2002
It is a well-known fact that most software projects fail. Drawing important lessons from failure is the goal of Bitter Java, a systematic account of common server-side Java programming mistakes, their causes and solutions. This book covers antipatterns for base Java and
J2EE concepts such as
Servlets, JSPs, EJBs, enterprise connection models, and scalability. It illustrates common pitfalls of Java programming through code examples and then presents re-factored code and explains why the new solutions are safe.
Written in an engaging style, this book begins each chapter with an extreme sports adventure gone wrong, and cunningly weaves the moral of the
story into the discussion of Java development problems. Bitter Java begins with an overview of antipatterns and lays the foundation for server-side Java development. The author quickly builds momentum with a set of core server-side antipatterns for servlets and JSPs. He uses a bulletin board example to discuss common mistakes in basic server-side design, and iteratively refactors it until he reaches good design. By reusing this example, the author guides the reader through increasingly complex antipatterns of caching, database connections and EJBs. High-level discussions of programming hygiene and performance tuning, complete with related antipatterns, help to round out the coverage.
The intermediate developer is the intended reader of this book but developers at all levels will gain insight from the discussions of basic
design
patterns for Java
JSP programming, round tripping, the perils of ignoring caching and connection pooling. More advanced topics such as
performance tuning, EJB and XML are also included.
Readers can benefit from direct access to the author at the publisher-sponsored Author Online forum (www.manning.com/tate/forum.html)
and a site built by the author to support the book:
www.bitterjava.com. Bitter Java is published in both print and pdf ebook editions.
About the Author
Bruce Tate has 14 years' experience at IBM and at a startup, half of this time as an Internet architect. He is the author of two other computer
books and he lives in Austin, Texas.
About Manning Publications Co.
Manning Publications Co. is a growing and well-respected independent computer book publisher with a reputation of publishing in-depth books
written in a clear style, without the fluff. Bitter Java joins other best-selling Manning Java titles as Web Development with JavaServer
Pages, 2nd ed., Server-Based Java Programming, Swing, and Java Network Programming.
Bitter Java will debut at the JavaOne Conference in March 2002 along with five other new Java titles - Java 2 Micro Edition, J2EE and XML
Development, The JDK 1.4 Tutorial, Java 3D Programming, and Java Instant Messaging:
The Jabber Protocols. Available in retail stores in late April 2002.
Bitter Java By Bruce A. Tate
ISBN 1930110-43X
Print edition: Softbound, 368 pages, $44.95
Ebook edition: Pdf format, 2 MB, $13.50
