Fundamental Networking in Java - book announcement

Announcing the publication of my new book Fundamental Networking in Java, Springer-Verlag, aimed squarely & with thanks at all denizens of this forum and at Java network programmers everywhere.
Scope: everything you can do with a Socket.
See http://www.springeronline.com/1-84628-030-3 or http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1846280303/qid%3D1128330433/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-2579331-3845735

Many congratulations on your book.
Writing a technical book is something I'd very much like to do myself one day and I have great admiration for those who put in the time and effort to achieve it.
Im going to order it now.
~D.

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thanks a lot
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Please any ideas?
it is very important for me
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Don't use an IDE until you know the languagebetter!
Why not? IMHO the errors and warnings the IDE gives,
with the autocomplete feature and all that stuff, are
pretty useful to a neophyte.Well, of course they're useful. A car which drives itself would be useful, but would it help someone learn to drive? Calculators are useful, but do they improve, or denigrate, mental arithmetic?
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i think he means that a lot of people have asked the same question before, and you should do a search on the forums for an answer.
But really, if you're looking for a good book you can't go past Core Java 2 (Vol 1 & 2), by Horstmann and Cornell, from the Sun Microsystems Press. Vol 1 covers all the fundamentals and is a great reference. Vol 2 goes into more detail on advanced topics: multithreading, networking, advanced swing and awt etc, both come with a CD that has heaps of code samples.
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3)     JSF does not support form GET method. They are giving all sorts of reasons not to do this. It�s practically very difficult to develop an application with just POST operations.
4)     There should be an easy way for the developer to tell JSF not to copy the request to the backing bean or at least skip the event phase that copies the request to the backing bean.
5)     JSF does many operations in each phases. JSF should not overload multiple operations in one phase. Custom validation should be separated from native framework validation. Calling a command button with immediate set to true should be a separate phase event. This should not be mixed with other operation.
6)     It is very difficult or near to impossible to programmatically unit test JSF application. I don�t know what they thought when they developed this framework. Dude�s we are in the TDD time period, not 4GL.
7)     In my opinion one or more backing beans can be linked to a page and a page can be made up of one or more jsp�s. The fundamental flaw with the JSF is that JSF tries to dynamically map a jsp collection to beans. I don�t know who decided this model. They should have implemented such that the user in the faces xml or dynamically say what beans maps to a jsp page. Then they can copy the request objects to the bean and then do other stuff. This way the framework will give lot of control to the developer. In my opinion, if they have to do this then they will have to implement the �struts� action controller framework and then extend the JSF framework on top of it.
8)     The framework has some piece of implementation very easy like mapping the bean to the form and command actions and the others near to impossible to understand or make it to work.
I am surprised to see big players like IBM and Oracle backing this product. What I don�t understand is why? What are they betting for?
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I am not very experience or expert in jsf...
But i would like share my thought/ answer on this issue.
1) JSF does not provide a way to disable PROCESS_VALIDATION phase. For some reason if one wants to skip one phase another, JSF has made it near to impossible to skip.
- YES.....jsf make it impossible to disable validation. But it does make it possible to skip some validation with immediate attribute. Anyway..based on My experienc working on immediate attribute.....it was not so easy/flexible to skip the validation as compared to struts..
2) The framework does not provide an easy way to invoke an action method directly by calling a URL (Similar to Struts action method invocation). This is very essential because many/most of the time one needs to check the authorizations of the user to view a page.
-I am not sure about this.......But i personally think jsf does not provide this functionality.
3) JSF does not support form GET method. They are giving all sorts of reasons not to do this. It�s practically very difficult to develop an application with just POST operations.
- YES....I personally also feel that this is a BIG disadvantage...
4) There should be an easy way for the developer to tell JSF not to copy the request to the backing bean or at least skip the event phase that copies the request to the backing bean.
- YES...agreed.....jsf should make this easier..
5) JSF does many operations in each phases. JSF should not overload multiple operations in one phase. Custom validation should be separated from native framework validation. Calling a command button with immediate set to true should be a separate phase event. This should not be mixed with other operation.
- No comment..
6) It is very difficult or near to impossible to programmatically unit test JSF application. I don�t know what they thought when they developed this framework. Dude�s we are in the TDD time period, not 4GL.
7) In my opinion one or more backing beans can be linked to a page and a page can be made up of one or more jsp�s. The fundamental flaw with the JSF is that JSF tries to dynamically map a jsp collection to beans. I don�t know who decided this model. They should have implemented such that the user in the faces xml or dynamically say what beans maps to a jsp page. Then they can copy the request objects to the bean and then do other stuff. This way the framework will give lot of control to the developer. In my opinion, if they have to do this then they will have to implement the �struts� action controller framework and then extend the JSF framework on top of it.
- No really understand what u trying to say...But I dun think this should be a isssue...
8) The framework has some piece of implementation very easy like mapping the bean to the form and command actions and the others near to impossible to understand or make it to work.
- What is the "other" mean???

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Hi,
I work a lot with scientific computation: reading in data, working with mathematical models, etc.
However, I can't find a Java book that tackles those aspects in depth.
Does anyone know of a good book on this topic?
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-mike

mmeclimate wrote:
I am sorry you feel that way about my questions! For example, in scientific computing, we work a lot with differential equations, Fourier transforms and so on. I can of course, write a program that will do those computations from scratch - which would take a lot of time! Or, what if there was a Java package that do these calculations? By having a book which focuses on these issues, one can save a lot of time! So, I believe you may have misunderstood my questions.
That's a different question.
Of course there exist libraries to aid in scientific and engineering computing.
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There are a few books that deal with Java and Scientific Computing that I found. These books prove that the questions that I posed here are relevant, and not a way of "give me the source" that you mentioned. Most people who replied to my questions were very polite as I have been - politeness is definitely an attitude that is much appreciated here!
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That's how yours was understood to be as well.
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- Essential Java for Scientists and Engineers by Brian Hahn
- Java Programming for Engineers by Julio Sanchez and Maria P. Canton
- Java Gently for Engineers and Scientists by Judith Bishop and Nigel Bishop
- Java for Engineers and Scientists by Gary J. Bronson
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I am a Java back-end,server-side programmer (junior to mid-level). Worked mostly on core Java. I would like to improve my Java programming skills. I know hundreds of books and tutorials are out there, but taught it might be a good idea to ask you guys first and have some idea before starting to buy any...
Does anybody know a good Java book that I can buy or a good tutorial that I can use (in order to improve my Java programming skills)?
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Check ot samspublishing for the same.
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