No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology: The 2007 Edition, Vol. 2 Book

Preface     1
Introduction     3
Learning to Love JavaScript   Glenn Vanderburg     7
Introduction     8
Comfortable Confusion     8
Collateral Damage     10
Reconstruction     12
Revolution     14
Stop Worrying, and Love the DOM     15
Conclusion     20
Web Resources     20
The Joys of Continuations and Asynchronous Architectures   Rebecca J. Parsons     21
Introduction     22
Neat and Nifty Tricks with Continuations     22
Why Continuations Are Useful     25
What's the Catch?     27
What Does It Mean, and Why Should I Care?     28
Web Resources     28
The Case for Groovy   Scott Davis     29
Introduction     30
News Flash: Java Is Complex     30
AssertEquals(Power,Simplicity)     31
Beyond Java     32
Java Is Dead. Long Live Java!     33
Enter Groovy     34
Inviting Groovy to the Party     36
How Did He Know How to Do That?     38
Rapid Web Development with Grails     39
Wrapping Up     43
Web Resources     44
Give It a Rest   Brian Sletten     47
Introduction     48
Rest Defined     50
WS-Tenacity     54
Complexity     55
Rest and Security     58
Rest and Metadata     59
Rest Environments     61
Where Rest Does Not Fit As Well     63
Supporting Both Styles     64
Conclusion     65
Web Resources     65
Guerilla Testing with Cobertura. TestNG, and EasyMock   Howard Lewis Ship     67
Introduction     68
Testing and Measurement     68
TestNG: Testing, the Next Generation     72
EasyMock: Weird, Wonderful, and Invaluable     86
Conclusion     96
Web Resources     96
An Introduction to the Google Web Toolkit   David Geary     99
Introduction     100
The Example Application     100
Using GWT Widgets     102
Internationalization     105
Remote Procedure Calls     107
Using the GWT's History Mechanism     111
Ajax!      113
JavaScript Integration     115
Conclusion     117
Web Resources     117
Web Testing with Selenium   Neal Ford     119
Introduction     120
Origins     120
Using Selenium in TestRunner Mode     121
Selenium Concepts     126
Remote Control Selenium     131
Tools     135
Summary     137
Web Resources     137
IntelliJ Tips, Tricks, and Techniques     139
Introduction     139
Stop Typing the Left Side     139
Remote Debugging Setup     140
The IDE That Reads Your Mind     140
Quick File Finding     144
Quick Navigation     145
Column Select and Replace     146
Super-Smart Live Templates     147
Macro Recorder     148
Key Promoter Plug-In     149
Summary     150
Web Resources     150
Pragmatic Tips, Tricks, and Techniques: Eclipse     151
Introduction     151
Generating by Your Own Rules     151
Pasty-White Pasting     152
Tickling the Keys      152
Filtration     153
Blinded by Source Code     153
Managing Plug-Ins     153
Just Browsing     154
Window Shopping     154
Do-It-Yourself DBA     154
Emacs Key Bindings     155
Summary     156
Web Resources     156
Improving Code Quality Using Automation   Paul M. Duvall     157
Introduction     158
Code Quality     158
Maven     161
Code Quality Plug-ins for Maven     162
Summary     167
Web Resources     167
Capistrano: Application Deployment and More   David Bock     169
Introduction     170
Capistrano's Assumptions     170
Concepts     171
Kick-Starting Your Own Recipe File     173
Capistrano's Standard Tasks     173
Extending Capistrano     175
Rolling Your Own Tasks     177
Advanced Concepts     178
Tricks of the Trade     182
Automation Redux     185
Web Resources     186
Bootstrapping Agility   Venkat Subramaniam     187
What's Agility?      188
Status of Development     189
Agile Movement     191
Adaptive Planning     192
Agility and Architecture     193
Agility and the Architect     195
Agility and Modeling     196
Evolutionary Design     198
Evolving the Design     199
Testing and Integration     202
Agile Team     205
Essence of Agility     206
Web Resources     207
The Software Engineer's Guide to Usability   Nathaniel T. Schutta     209
Introduction     210
What Is Usability?     210
Usability Myths     212
Creating a Usable Interface     214
Usability Heuristics     220
Summary     221
Web Resources     221
Integrating Ruby with Your Legacy Code   Jared Richardson     223
A Well-Stocked Toolbox     224
Your Ruby Got Into My Java!     225
A Bridge Over Troubled Waters     227
Access High-Performance C Code from Your Ruby     229
Wrapping Up     232
Web Resources     232
Executable Documentation with FIT and FitNesse    David Hussman     233
Stumbling Toward Innovation     234
Less Is More, Again!     235
Tools of the Trade     238
Where Do You Go from Here?     244
Web Resources     245
Introducing the iBATIS Persistence Framework   Mark Richards     247
Introduction     248
iBATIS vs. Traditional ORM Frameworks     248
Why Use iBATIS?     249
Setting Up Data Sources and Transactions     250
Mapping SQL Statements     251
Invoking iBATIS SQL Statements in Java     255
Using HashMaps vs. Java Transfer Objects     256
Caching in iBATIS     257
Namespaces     259
Conclusion     260
Web Resources     261
Data Access Using Spring, Hibernate, and JDBC   Scott Leberknight     263
Introduction     264
ORMvs. JDBC     264
When to Use ORM vs. JDBC     266
Why Use Spring?     267
Setting Up Hibernate in Spring     268
Implementing Hibernate-Based DAOs     272
Implementing Spring JDBC-Based DAOs     278
Mixing DAO Implementations     279
DAO Design Considerations     281
Testing     282
Summary     286
Web Resources     286
The Authors Speak!     287
Glenn Vanderburg     287
Venkat Subramaniam     288
Brian Sletten     289
Howard Lewis Ship     290
Nathaniel T. Schutta     291
Jared Richardson     292
Mark Richards     292
Rebecca J. Parsons     293
Ted Neward     293
Scott Leberknight     293
David Hussman     294
David Geary     295
Neal Ford     297
Paul M. Duvall     299
Scott Davis     299
David Bock     300
Bibliography     303
Index     309