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Head First Java Head First Java
by Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates
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Java Pocket Guide Java Pocket Guide
by Robert Liguori, Patricia Liguori
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Java Web Services: Up and Running Java Web Services: Up and Running
by Martin Kalin
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Learning Java Learning Java
by Patrick Niemeyer, Jonathan Knudsen
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Java SOA Cookbook Java SOA Cookbook
by Eben Hewitt
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RESTful Java with JAX-RS RESTful Java with JAX-RS
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Great Java Great Java
by Brett McLaughlin
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Grails Grails (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
by Dave Klein
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Programming Scala Programming Scala
by Dean Wampler, Alex Payne
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Modular Java Modular Java (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
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Domain-Driven Design Using Naked Objects Domain-Driven Design Using Naked Objects (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
by Dan Haywood
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Validation in Flex with Hamcrest-AS3

By Joel Hooks
November 20, 2009

Hamcrest? No, it isn't a fancy sandwich topping. Hamcrest is a framework for creating matchers, allowing matching rules to be defined declaratively (from Wikipedia). Hamcrest has been used by many popular unit testing frameworks including JUnit and FlexUnit 4. Hamcrest-AS3...

Using UDP socket connections for low-latency and loss-tolerant scenarios in AIR 2 (Part 3)

By Ian McLean
November 19, 2009

Now that we have a client built that will send and receive packets we need a server for it to communicate with. Lets walk through a quick implementation of a basic Java UDP socket server. Some familiarity with Java is...

Using UDP socket connections for low-latency and loss-tolerant scenarios in AIR 2 (Part 2)

By Ian McLean
November 17, 2009

So now that we understand the usage of UDP lets jump right into building a basic UDP client and server. We'll use the DatagramSocket class to send packets to a specific port at a specific address. We'll also bind our...

Using UDP socket connections for low-latency and loss-tolerant scenarios in AIR 2 (Part 1)

By Ian McLean
November 17, 2009

Flash player has supported socket connections for some time but has lacked UDP specific support. Although there was the recent addition of RTMFP (a protocol utilizing UDP to enable low latency data transfer and P2P connections) it doesn't provide direct...

The Bluffer's Guide to JavaFX, part 2

By Simon Morris
October 28, 2009

Text plays a big part in user interfaces, yet string manipulation is remarkably primitive in popular programming languages. JavaFX Script, the new DSL for the JavaFX platform, has a few tricks up its sleeve when it comes to playing with text.

Getting Java, C# and Perl to speak the same language (with JSON)

By Andrew Stellman
October 4, 2009

I've been thinking a lot about architecture lately. It's partially because Jenny and I are going to do our Beautiful Teams talk at the ITARC 2009 conference next week. But it's also because I've been writing a lot of code...

The Bluffer's Guide to JavaFX, part 1

By Simon Morris
September 17, 2009

Every now and again you hear mention of this strange new technology from the Java camp, called JavaFX. But what it is, and what makes it so different? Here's a handy bluffer's guide, to fool friends and colleagues into thinking you know what you're talking about.

Is There Any Correct Java Code Out There?

By James Elliott
August 5, 2009

Writing correct, concurrent code is really hard. Java makes it seem easier than it is, even when you think you're being careful. The language support is better than it was before Java 5, but we still have a lot to learn. And we have to learn fast, because our code is running on more and more processors every day.


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