Better, Faster, Lighter Java

Better, Faster, Lighter Java
by Bruce A. Tate and Justin Gehtland

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Editor: Mike Loukides
Production Editor: Colleen Gorman
Cover Designer: Ellie Volckhausen
Interior Designer: Melanie Wang

Printing History: June 2004: First Edition.

ix -Preface

1 - 1. The Inevitable Bloat
1 -- Bloat Drivers
9 -- Options
11 -- Five Principles for Fighting the Bloat
15 -- Summary

17 - 2. Keep It Simple
17 -- The Value of Simplicity
21 -- Process and Simplicity
26 -- Your Safety Net
35 -- Summary

36 - 3. Do One Thing, and Do It Well
37 -- Understanding the Problem
41 -- Distilling the Problem
46 -- Layering your Architecture
51 -- Refactoring to Reduce Coupling
60 -- Summary

61 - 4. Strive for Transparency
61 -- Benefits of Transparency
62 -- Who's in Control?
64 -- Alternatives to Transparency
70 -- Reflection
77 -- Injecting Code
79 -- Generating Code
82 -- Advanced Topics
85 -- Summary

87 - 5. You Are What You Eat
88 -- Golden Hammers
98 -- Understanding the Big Picture
102 -- Considering Technical Requirements
106 -- Summary

107 - 6. Allow for Extension
107 -- The Basics of Extension
112 -- Tools for Extension
123 -- Plug-In Models
126 -- Who Is the Customer?
128 -- Summary

129 - 7. Hibernate
129 -- The Lie
130 -- What is Hibernate?
141 -- Using Your Persistent Model
145 -- Evaluating Hibernate
150 -- Summary

151 - 8. Spring
151 -- What is Spring?
154 -- Pet Store: A Counter-Example
159 -- The Domain Model
161 -- Adding Persistence
170 -- Presentation
175 -- Summary

177 - 9. Simple Spider
178 -- What Is the Spider?
179 -- Examining the Requirements
182 -- Planning for Development
182 -- The Design
183 -- The Configuration Service
187 -- The Crawler/Indexer Service
193 -- The Search Service
196 -- The Console Interface
199 -- The Web Service Interface
203 -- Extending the Spider

204 - 10. Extending jPetStore
204 -- A Brief Look at the Existing Search Feature
207 -- Replacing the Controller
211 -- The User Interface (JSP)
214 -- Setting Up the Indexer
216 -- Making Use of the Configuration Service
218 -- Adding Hibernate
224 -- Summary

226 - 11. Where Do We Go From Here?
226 -- Technology
231 -- Process
232 -- Challenges
232 -- Conclusion

234 - Bibliography
237 - Index