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SWT/JFace in Action
How to design graphical applications with Eclipse 3.0

Greenwich, CT December 7, 2004 -- Eclipse's award winning graphical libraries, the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) and JFace, enable developers to build nimble and powerful graphical user interfaces using native Java code. With Eclipse's expanding popularity, developers are looking to SWT/JFace as a compelling alternative to Swing.

SWT/JFace in Action goes beyond the available documentation and thoroughly covers the high-level theory and the low-level details of the combined SWT/JFace development tools. Readers follow a sample application through the book, which covers each component included in SWT and JFace. The many code examples show how SWT/JFace works in practical applications. The book guides both intermediate and advanced programmers through the process of developing Eclipse-based GUIs for their applications.

In addition to the SWT/JFace toolset, this book presents additional Eclipse capabilities that function on top of these libraries. No other book covers the Rich Client Platform, which programmers can use to build workbenches whose capabilities far exceed regular GUIs. The authors also introduce Draw2D and the Graphical Editing Framework, which enable developers to create full graphical editors, similar to those used in CAD and software modeling. With this book readers also learn how to combine SWT elements with objects from Microsoft's popular Component Object Model (COM) to build powerful user interfaces.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Matthew Scarpino, Stephen Holder, Stanford Ng, and Laurent Mihalkovic together have a rich and varied background from work on applications for reconfigurable computing, financial management, and enterprise development.

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

Manning Publications is a publisher of high-quality technology books for software developers and managers. Manning is based in Greenwich, CT. For a review copy, please contact Helen Trimes at hetr@manning.com.

SWT/JFace in Action
ISBN 1932394-27-3
By Matthew Scarpino, Stephen Holder, Stanford Ng, and Laurent Mihalkovic
Softbound, 496 pages, $44.95, December 2004
Ebook $22.50

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JavaServer Faces in Action
Covering the latest JavaServer Faces release

Greenwich, CT. November 17, 2004 -- JavaServer Faces is the new standard Java web application framework that helps streamline web development through the use of rich, powerful User Interface (UI) components and events. JavaServer Faces (JSF) makes web development faster and easier by masking the complexities of web development and allowing developers to concentrate on building applications.

JavaServer Faces in Action is an introduction, a tutorial, and a comprehensive reference for JSF written for web application developers, front-end developers, and architects. Throughout the book, the author uses numerous examples to explain standard components, custom components, renderers, converters, and validators. He builds an application as a case study to show how JavaServer Faces works and how it relates to other frameworks and technologies like Struts, Servlets, Portlets, JSP, and JSTL. Only this book covers tool support for JSF in depth, including Oracle JDeveloper, IBM WebSphere Studio, and Sun Java Studio Creator.
Advanced topics covered include how to develop pluggable classes to customize JSF's behavior and how to use JSF without JSP. "JavaServer Faces in Action" covers the latest specification changes made in JavaServer Faces.

In the foreword written by the Sun JavaServer Faces Co-specification lead, Ed Burns, he summarizes, "Kito grasps the key value-adds of JavaServer Faces and has explained them in a book that is accessible and in-depth."

ONLINE EXTENSION BONUS!

Owners of this book have free online access to over 300 additional pages of substantial content. That's over 1,000 pages of "JavaServer Faces in Action"!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

An independent enterprise architect and developer, Kito D. Mann runs the JSFCentral.com community site and is a member of the JSF 1.2 and JSP 2.1 Expert Groups. He lives in Stamford, Connecticut.

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

Manning Publications is a publisher of high-quality technology books for software developers and managers. Manning is based in Greenwich, CT. For a review copy, please contact Helen Trimes at hetr@manning.com.

JavaServer Faces in Action
by Kito D. Mann
ISBN 1932394-12-5
Softbound, 744 pages, $49.95
Ebook, includes Online Extension, $25.00

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Java Reflection in Action
Making Reflection Accessible to the Intermediate Programmer

Greenwich, CT. October 28, 2004 -- Reflection allows an executing program to examine and modify itself. It permits programmers to easily add new requirements with few code changes, resulting in flexible applications and with a longer, more useful life.

Reflection is considered by many to be tricky, best left to sophisticated programmers. "Java Reflection in Action" now makes this inbuilt feature of the Java language accessible to the intermediate programmer. This practical guide starts with the basicconcepts and gradually builds a complete understanding. It contains many small and easily understood examples derived from the authors' on-the-job experiences. "Java Reflection in Action" tackles many common development tasks, in each case demonstrating the best-practice reflective solutions that replace the usual hard-coded ones.

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

Manning Publications is a publisher of high-quality technology books for software developers and managers. Manning is based in Greenwich, CT. For a review copy, please contact Helen Trimes at hetr@manning.com.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Dr. Ira Forman is a computer scientist at IBM. He has worked on reflection since the early 1990s when he developed IBM's SOM Metaclass Framework. Nate Forman works for Ticom Geomatics where he uses reflection to solve day-to-day problems. Ira and Nate are father and son. They both live in Austin, Texas.

Java Reflection in Action
by Ira R. Forman and Nate Forman
ISBN 1932394-18-4
Ebook, $22.50
Softbound, 300 pages, $44.95
October 2004

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Manning Releases Hibernate in Action Book Greenwich, CT - Hibernate exploded on the Java scene only three years ago and is now the most popular object/relational mapping tool for Java. It is considered one of the most successful and useful Java open source projects alongside Struts, Tomcat, and JBoss and won the 2004 Jolt! Software Award.

Manning has now released Hibernate in Action, written by the core developers of Hibernate, Gavin King and Christian Bauer. It is the first and only full tutorial, reference, and authoritative guide, and one of the most anticipated books of the year for Hibernate users.

Hibernate automates a tedious task, the persistence of Java objects with relational database systems, traditionally one of the major problems in application development. "Hibernate in Action" shows how to use Hibernate in practice. It demonstrates how to deal with concurrency and transactions, how to efficiently retrieve objects and use caching. The authors created Hibernate, continue to develop it, and support the community. As a member of the EJB3 Expert Group, co-author Gavin King is working to integrate Hibernate concepts into the next major version of the EJB specification. Any developer who needs to make decisions on Java object persistence architecture will find Hibernate in Action invaluable. This book is now available everywhere that technical books are sold.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Christian Bauer is a member of the core Hibernate developer team. He maintains the Hibernate documentation and website and is a senior software engineer in Frankfurt, Germany.
Hibernate founder Gavin King is an enthusiastic proponent of agile development, open source software, and "lightweight" Java frameworks. He is a J2EE consultant based in Melbourne, Australia.

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

Manning Publications is a publisher of high-quality technology books for software developers and managers. Manning is based in Greenwich, CT. For a review copy, please contact Helen Trimes at hetr@manning.com.

Hibernate in Action
By Christian Bauer and Gavin King
ISBN 1932394-15-X
August 2004, Softbound, 432 pages, $44.95
Ebook, PDF, $22.50

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Microsoft Reporting Services in Action
A Guide to Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services

Greenwich, CT, -- August 17, 2004 -- Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services is a new server-based reporting solution from Microsoft Corp. that can be used to create and manage both paper-oriented and interactive, Web-based reports. Until now, the comprehensive features of this tool have been largely untapped due to a lack of proper documentation. "Microsoft Reporting Services in Action" arrives in bookstores August 2004.

Microsoft Reporting Services in Action was written for information workers, system administrators, and developers who want to quickly get up to speed. The book follows a typical report lifecycle to show how to create, manage, and deliver RS reports. The first half of the book builds a solid foundation for using the built-in tools to create reports. The second half of the book teaches developers the techniques that they need to integrate SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services with their Windows Form or Web-based applications. In the book's foreword, Brian Welcker, Group Program Manager for Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, wrote that "Teo has the ability to take complex topics and break them into smaller sections that can easily be understood." The book exercises Reporting Services through a wide variety of real-world scenarios within its many useful examples.

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

Manning Publications is a publisher of high-quality technology books for software developers and managers and is based in Greenwich, CT.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A technology consultant with the Enterprise Application Services practice of Hewlett-Packard and a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Teo Lachev has more than 11 years of experience designing and developing Microsoft-centric solutions.

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Microsoft Reporting Services in Action
By Teo Lachev
ISBN 1932394-22-2
August 2004, Softbound, 656 pages, $49.95
Ebook, PDF, $25.00
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For a review copy, please contact Helen Trimes at hetr@manning.com

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