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Good Free Java/J2EE Books

Frank Kelly has collected in a post some Java/J2EE books that are available for free. He also has grouped them according to how good he felt the quality was. Here is the list:

• Fair to Middling

• Designing Enterprise Applications with J2EE Platform

• Designing Web Services with the J2EE 1.4 Platform: JAX-RPC, SOAP, and XML Technologies

• Good<ul

• The J2EE Architect’s Handbook

• Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0

• Jakarta Struts Live

• Servlets and JavaServer Pages

• Great

• Swing

• Bitter Java

• Thinking in Java

• Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages

• More Servlets and JavaServer Pages

Classic Development Mistakes Survey

Steve McConnell has updated his original list of classic development mistakes, ineffective development practices that have been chosen so often, by so many projects, with such predictable results.

Now, Construx, the company founded in 1996 by Steve, is interested in the frequency and severity of each of these 42 classic mistakes in your experience. They plan to collate the results later this year and provide a summary report.

So go ahead and take the survey.

(Via Coding Horror)

IMS Tools Knowledge Base Teleconference

IBM seems to continue to enhance IMS tooling set, this time with an autonomic management tool. IMS Tools Knowledge Base is a tool to assist DBAs to store, manage, and access reports generated from some selected IMS tools.

If you are interested in this tool, join the The IMS Tools Knowledge Base: The foundation of IBM’s autonomic direction for IMS Tools teleconference on June 26, 2007 to discuss with Joe Sacco, IMS Tools Project Manager, and Ronald Defalco, IMS Tools Senior Software Engineer, how to improve problem determination and resolution, consolidate islands of IMS tools data into one repository and build a foundation for better decision-making.

(Via Mainframe Watch Belgium)

links for 2007-06-14

• Interface21 Team Blog » Spring: the de-facto standard in Enterprise Java Programming
  "the pervasiveness of the Spring Framework makes it very compelling for vendors to provide Spring Framework integration in their products"
  (tags: java springframework architecture)
• IBM developerWorks : Blogs : Mainframe Performance Topics
  "list of IMS Version 10 enhancements, all of which are virtual storage usage improvements"
  (tags; IBM IMS enhacements)
• ETH – JOpera for Eclipse – Welcome to the JOpera Project
  JOpera for Eclipse is a rapid service composition tool offering a visual language and autonomic execution platform for building distributed applications out of reusable services, which include but are not strictly limited to Web services.
  (tags: java eclipse development architecture workflow SOA)
• IBM Redbooks | Implementing REXX Support in SDSF
  In z/OS v1.9, SDSF has added REXX support. This function provides the ability to access SDSF panel data through REXX variables.
  (tags: IBM mainframe z/OS REXX SDSF)
• IBM Redbooks | Global Development and Delivery in Practice: Experiences of the IBM Rational India Lab
  Rational Bangalore collective experiences with Global Development and Delivery (GDD): the common problems, the tailoring of Rational tools to solve the problems, and best practices and case studies.
  (tags: IBM Rational development GDD)
• IBM sings Jazz tune for app development | InfoWorld | News | 2007-06-10 | By Paul Krill
  With Team Concert, which currently is in a beta form, IBM is producing a portal optimized for agile development teams in mid- and large-sized businesses. IBM plans a family of Concert offerings and extensions to existing IBM products geared toward collabo
  (tags: IBM Rational Jazz)
• InfoQ: Can Agile Separate Team Concerns from Organizational Ones?
  When it comes to agile methods, almost everyone agrees that agility can apply to the software development team and to the organization within which a software development team finds itself.
  (tags: agile organization enterprise)

This blog has another member …

He was born on June 8th, weighed 2,810 kg and measured 48 cm. His name is Marc:

Comments

Comment by kellyd on 2007-06-13 01:15:24 +0000

Such a handsome boy he is! Congratulations to you and your family!

Comment by Kareltje Krasker on 2007-06-14 23:17:14 +0000

Best entry on the blog. Congratulations !!!