
Book Description
JavaScript: It’s not just for calculators and image rollovers.
Drupal 6 is loaded with new features, and not all of them are necessarily implemented in PHP. This unique book, for web designers and developers, will take you through what can be done with JavaScript (and especially with jQuery) in Drupal 6.
With the combination of the powerhouse jQuery library with its own robust set of JavaScript tools, Drupal 6 comes with a pre-packaged killer JavaScript environment. Cross-platform by nature, it provides all of the tools necessary to create powerful AJAX-enabled scripts, gorgeous visual effects, and view-enhancing behaviors. In addition, Drupal developers have ported some of its most powerful PHP tools – like a theming engine and support for localization and language translation – to JavaScript, making it possible to write simple scripts where once only complex PHP code could be used.
This book gives you the keys to the toolbox, showing you how to use Drupal’s JavaScript libraries to make Read More ...

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As Eclipse-based applications become increasingly popular, users are demanding more sophisticated graphical interfaces. When standard widgets aren’t enough, graphics built with GEF are often the best solution. The Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) covers everything Java tool developers need to create tomorrow’s richest, most visual interfaces.
This practical, hands-on guide begins by introducing GEF, Draw2D, and Zest, and demonstrating what can be achieved with them. Next, the authors walk through building a simple Draw2D example, helping new GEF developers understand the core capabilities available to them. Building on this foundation, they progressively introduce more of the Draw2D frameworks, including Figures, Layout Managers, Connections, Layers, and Viewports. They present a chapter-length graph visualization project based on Zest, followed by detailed coverage of non-Draw2D portions of GEF.
The book’s final section walks step Read More ...

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Liferay in Action is the official guide to building Liferay portal applications using Java and JavaScript. If you’ve never used Liferay before, don’t worry. This book starts with the basics: setting up your development environment and creating a working portal. Then, it builds on that foundation to help you discover social features, tagging, ratings, and more. You’ll also explore the Portlet 2.0 API, and learn to create custom themes and reusable templates.
Experienced developers will learn how to use new Liferay APIs to build social and collaborative sites, use the message bus and workflow, implement indexing and search, and more. This book was developed in close collaboration with Liferay engineers, so it answers the right questions, and answers them in depth.
No experience with Liferay or the Portlets API is required, but basic knowledge of Java and web technology is assumed.
What’s Inside
- Complete coverage of Liferay Portal 6
- Covers both the commercial and open Read More ...

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The Apache ActiveMQ message broker is an open source implementation of the Java Message Service spec. It makes for a reliable hub in any message-oriented enterprise application and integrates beautifully with Java EE containers, ESBs, and other JMS providers.
ActiveMQ in Action is all you’ll need to master ActiveMQ. It starts from the anatomy of a JMS message and moves quickly through connectors, message persistence, authentication, and authorization. By following a running example (a stock portfolio app), you’ll pick up the best practices distilled by the authors from their long and deep involvement with this technology.
What’s Inside
- How to design message-based apps
- How to implement EI patterns using Camel
- How to administer ActiveMQ
- How to integrate with Geronimo, JBoss, Spring, and more
This book requires a working knowledge of Java, but no previous experience with ActiveMQ or other message brokers is needed.
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Lucene’s performance, simplicity, disarming ease-of-use, and best practices are covered in this look at the highly scalable, fast, and pure Java search engine. Newly documented solutions explain what Lucene is and how it works and how it can be used in a variety of real-world applications such as Nutch. Users will also use this guide to understand and solve “analysis paralysis,” employ advanced searching techniques, such as filtering and custom query parsing, and handle a variety of document types such as Word, PDF, HTML, and XML.
About the Author
Erik Hatcher is an Apache Software Foundation member and committer on several projects including Ant, Lucene, and Tapestry. He is a frequent speaker at industry events including JavaOne, OSCON, JUG meetings, and the No Fluff, Just Stuff symposiums. He is the author of many articles published at java.net, JavaPro, and developerWorks and is the coauthor of Java Development with Ant. Otis Gospodnetic is an Active Apache Jakarta committer, Read More ...

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The Definitive Guide to Eclipse Rich Client Development
In Eclipse Rich Client Platform, Second Edition, three Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) project leaders show how to use Eclipse 3.5 (“Galileo”) to rapidly deliver cross-platform applications with rich, native-feel GUIs.
The authors fully reveal the power of Eclipse as a desktop application development platform; introduce important new improvements in Eclipse 3.5; and walk through developing a full-featured, branded RCP application for Windows, Linux, Mac, and other platforms—including handheld devices and kiosks.
Drawing on their extensive experience, the authors cover building, refining, and refactoring prototypes; customizing user interfaces; adding help and software management features; and building, branding, testing, and shipping finished software. They demonstrate current best practices for developing modular and dynamically extensible systems, using third-party code libraries, Read More ...
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