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STRUTS RECIPES
Strategies for building solid business applications

Greenwich, CT, December 31, 2004 -- Introductory books on Struts will cover the latest Struts features, but Struts Recipes does much more. It is intended for advanced developers who need to transcend out-of-the-box Struts features and get things done.

Struts Recipes is a collection of algorithms and techniques which show how to accomplish tasks not addressed by any Struts feature. Many of the recipes describe how to integrate Struts with other third party libraries -- an entire chapter is devoted to the Struts-Layout library, never before described in this level of detail.

Each recipe discusses the practical implications of adopting the solution and is complete with detailed code listings that will save time and money. Many point out little-known "gotchas" to help create applications that are secure, robust, and maintainable.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

George Franciscus is a J2EE consultant, Struts authority, and co-author of Struts in Action. Danilo Gurovich is a Manager of Web Engineering at an eCommerce Company. He has designed eCommerce and ERP/EAI Struts applications, and led teams who built them.

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.

Struts Recipes
By George Franciscus and Danilo Gurovich
ISBN: 1932394-24-9
Softbound, 520 pages, $44.95
Ebook: $22.50

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Lucene in Action
A guide to the Java search engine

Greenwich, CT, December 31, 2004 -- Lucene is a gem in the open-source world -- a highly scalable, fast search engine that delivers performance and is easy to use. Lucene powers search in diverse places: in discussion groups at Fortune 100 companies, in commercial issue trackers, in email search from Microsoft, and in the Nutch web search engine (that scales to billions of pages). It is used by businesses such as Akamai, Overture, Technorati, HotJobs, Epiphany, FedEx, Mayo Clinic, MIT, and many others.

Lucene in Action is the authoritative guide to Lucene written by experts. The book describes how to index data, including types that developers need to know such as MS Word, PDF, HTML, and XML. It introduces searching, sorting, filtering, and highlighting search results. With many reusable examples and good advice on best practices, "Lucene in Action" demonstrates how to easily add search to applications.
It is written for developers who need powerful search capabilities in their applications or those who are curious about Lucene or indexing and search technicques. Sample chapters are available at the publisher's website www.manning.com/hatcher2

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

A committer on the Ant, Lucene, and Tapestry open-source projects, Erik Hatcher is coauthor of Manning's award-winning "Java Development with Ant." Otis Gospodnetic is a Lucene committer, a member of Apache Jakarta Project Management Committee, and maintainer of the jGuru's Lucene FAQ. Both authors have published numerous technical articles including several on Lucene.

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.

Lucene In Action
By Otis Gospodnetic and Erik Hatcher
with a Foreword by Doug Cutting, creator of Lucene
ISBN: 1932394-28-1
Softbound, 456 pages, $44.95
Ebook: $22.50

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