The move from socalled heavyweight architectures, such as Enterprise JavaBeans, toward lightweight frameworks, like Spring, has not stopped since Pro Spring was published by Rob Harrop and Jan Machacek in 2005; in fact, it's picked up pace. The Spring Framework remains the leader in this move and provides a platform on which you can build your own applications and services.

Pro Spring 2.5 covers the new features of Spring 2.5, but moreover, it is focused on the best practices and core standards of contemporary Spring development. As members of the Spring development team at Cake Solutions, the author team brings extensive practical experience gained from working with Spring since version 1.0 and delivering successful systems on top of it.

Learn the approaches that really matter in a professional, enterpriselevel environment, so you can apply them to your projects today, safe in the knowledge that they just work. What you'll learn Discover how to use Spring's Inversion of Control (IoC)Explore Spring's excellent aspectoriented programming (AOP) support, including Spring 2.5's new @AspectJ featureFind out how to use Spring's dynamic scripting language features, Spring design patterns, and performance tuning in Spring applicationsLearn what really works in realworld Spring developmentUnderstand Spring's support for the JDBC framework, Hibernate, the Quartz enterprise scheduler, declarative transaction management, and much moreMaster Spring's welldesigned MVC framework and add AJAX to your Spring web applications to create flexible, efficient, and manageable applications using the best techniques available Who this book is for

Enterprise Java, J2EE/Java EE developers looking to learn and use the Spring meta-framework, the now growing, leading alternative to J2EE/Java EE.

*Readers will witness a real application being built with Spring framework, which is a very hot topic. *Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) is most up to date at time of book's release; AOP is a hot topic right now. *Will be endorsed by Open Source Spring Framework founder and head, Rod Johnson (plus a Foreward, name on cover, and/or possible Spring logo).

Visual Studio is the only suitable environment for professional development of .NET 1.1 and. has retained global high sales, throughout the downturn. It is just about the only choice for developers in Microsoft technology. It is a complex and feature-rich vehicle mainly for C#, VB.NET and Web development and drawing out its full potential can be a challenge for novice and professional programmers alike.This book reveals and demystifies the product to enable programmers to do their job more quickly and with fewer errors. All the authors are well known in each field of .NET development and lever their hands-on experience of making the tool work in the real world. Programmers will understand how to tweak this environment to get the very best out of it and learn by seeing practical tasks put into, and through Studio, to get the best results.

* Only in-depth guide on the market focused purely on telling J2EE developers exactly what they need to know to get their J2EE applications up and running on Oracle AS 10g. * Covers the very latest release and provides tons of tips/workarounds compiled by an expert author during numerous projects. * Compares and contrasts the Oracle AS 10g implementation to other J2EE application servers (particularly WebLogic, WebSphere and JBoss), taking advantage of the experience many readers already have with those products. This makes it an ideal book for anyone migrating to 10G from another app server.