Sometimes the simplest answer is the best. Many Enterprise Java
developers, accustomed to dealing with Java's spiraling complexity, have
fallen into the habit of choosing overly complicated solutions to
problems when simpler options are available. Building server
applications with "heavyweight" Java-based architectures, such as
WebLogic, JBoss, and WebSphere, can be costly and cumbersome. When
you've reached the point where you spend more time writing code to
support your chosen framework than to solve your actual problems, it's
time to think in terms of simplicity.In Better, Faster, Lighter Java,
authors Bruce Tate and Justin Gehtland argue that the old heavyweight
architectures are unwieldy, complicated, and contribute to slow and
buggy application code. As an alternative means for building better
applications, the authors present two "lightweight" open source
architectures: Hibernate--a persistence framework that does its job with
a minimal API and gets out of the way, and Spring--a container that's
not invasive, heavy or complicated.Hibernate and Spring are designed to
be fairly simple to learn and use, and place reasonable demands on
system resources. Better, Faster, Lighter Java shows you how they can
help you create enterprise applications that are easier to maintain,
write, and debug, and are ultimately much faster.Written for
intermediate to advanced Java developers, Better, Faster, Lighter
Java, offers fresh ideas--often unorthodox--to help you rethink the way
you work, and techniques and principles you'll use to build simpler
applications. You'll learn to spend more time on what's important. When
you're finished with this book, you'll find that your Java is better,
faster, and lighter than ever before.
