A complete guide to the JBoss 5 Application Server, from installation and configuration to production deployment. The book focuses on those things that separate JBoss from other Java EE servers, and covers security, performance, and clustering.

This unique collector's volume includes every User Friendly cartoon strip from November 17, 1997 to November 16, 2007. The strips are annotated with comments from artist and creator J.D. "Illiad" Frazer and presented in chronological order for a twisted take on the last ten years of geekdom.

A comprehensive tutorial for iPhone programming, covering web development, the SDK, and hybrid coding with over 60 web, Dashcode, and SDK examples. The only book on iPhone development you'll ever need.

The first book to cover Hibernate Search guides you through every step to set up full text search functionality in your Java applications. It also introduces core search techniques and reviews the relevant parts of Lucene. For anyone using Hibernate or JBoss Seam, this book is the definitive guide on how to add or enhance search features.

Learn about all the components of Zend Framework as you build a high quality, real-world web application. The book is organized around the techniques you'll use every day as a web developer. You'll learn to build interactive Ajax-driven features into your application without sacrificing nuts-and-bolts considerations like security and performance.

This book walks you through real-life software engineering problems based on hundreds of hours of TFS experience.

Teaches you all you need to know, even if you have no prior WPF experience. You'll master XAML, WPF's declarative language, and core components like layouts, styles, and the new event model. Written for developers with a background in .NET and C#.

The first book to cover Silverlight 2, the much anticipated release with powerful new features. The authors deliver real-world examples and in-depth walkthroughs to help you enhance your web applications using Silverlight 2.

A hands-on guidebook for implementing collective-intelligence concepts using Java.This book provides a pragmatic approach to personalization by combining content-based analysis with collaborative approaches. It looks at the underlying algorithms and technical implementation of vital data gathering and mining techniques like analyzing trends, discovering relationships, and making predictions.

Learn how to use ESBs in real-world situations. The authors show you how the various features of an ESB can be implemented based on the example of two open-source ESB implementations: Mule and ServiceMix.

A practical and in-depth look at JBoss Seam from outside the walls of RedHat/JBoss. Learn about this innovative Java EE framework that reinvents Java-based web development.

An authoritative guide for Java developers written by two of Wicket's earliest and most authoritative experts. A component-based web application framework, Wicket lets you build maintainable enterprise-grade web applications using the power of POJOs, HTML, Ajax, Spring, Hibernate, and Maven.

Learn the essential features of the AIR API through examples and code that will get you up and running in AIR quickly.

Introduces the Apache Struts 2 web application framework and shows you how to quickly develop professional, production-ready modern web applications by walking you through the key features in example-driven, easy-to-digest sections.

An example-driven, code-rich book designed for web developers who have already learned the basics of GWT. This book skips the theory and looks at the way things really work when you're building projects in GWT.

Learn how and where (and why) to use the new C# features. This book provides a good background in C# 1 --- and it will also make you comfortable and proficient with C# 2 and 3.

Offers a rich investigation of the up-and-coming jQuery library for client-side JavaScript. This book will help web developers gain a deep understanding of how to use jQuery to simplify their pages and their lives, as well as learn the philosophy behind writing jQuery-enhanced pages.

A fast-paced, comprehensive tutorial for professional developers who want to use LINQ, a new extension to the Visual Basic and C# programming languages designed to simplify data queries and database interaction.

Laszlo sites are continuous and flowing, often implemented as single-page apps that users can navigate with ease. This book is the authoritative source for Laszlo, a declarative, open-source programming language and environment that compiles to Flash, DHTML (i.e., AJAX), or Java/J2ME, with other platforms coming.

Learn how to use Ruby on Rails and Adobe Flex to build next-generation rich Internet applications. This book takes you to the leading edge of RIA development, presenting examples in Flex 3 and Rails 2 along with specific techniques that teach you how to make this combination especially powerful.