| JBoss AS 7 Configuration, Deployment and Administration Posted: 05 Jan 2012 11:11 AM PST 
Book Description As the Java EE standard has evolved and matured, the API has become increasingly rich and complex. The next generation of application servers needs to be modular and configurable to run only specific services or containers. JBoss AS 7 promises to meet those requirements but the configuration of a complex application server is composed of a mix of administrative and management tasks which often overlap, generating confusion. JBoss AS 7 Configuration, Deployment and Administration will give you an expert’s understanding of every component that makes up the JBoss application server, and will show you how to use them, helping you to dramatically cut down the learning curve for this exciting product. This book will guide you through configuration, management, deployment and advanced administration in a logical order to avoid the common pitfalls of setting up a new AS. The book dives into the new application server structure and shows you how to install it. You will learn how to configure the core AS services, including thread pools, the messaging system, and the transaction service. Finally, you will learn how to deploy and manage your applications and then tune the performance of your AS to achieve an efficient, indispensible application server. What you will learn from this book: - Understand the new AS infrastructure and how to install, start, and stop the AS 7
- Configure the core AS 7 services, including database connections, the JMS subsystem, and transaction service
- Manage the application server using the Admin Console and the new Command Line Interface
- Deploy applications on the AS, using all the available tools and instruments.
- Configure and run a cluster of application server nodes and provide high availability to your applications
- Secure the application server and the applications running on it
- Learn how to take your JBoss AS 7 applications in the cloud by leveraging the OpenShift platform-as-a-service
- Tune and slim the application server
Approach
You will be guided through setting up a JBoss application server in a logical order, with plenty of screenshots and practical instructions to help. Who this book is written for
Java system administrators, developers, and application testers will benefit from this book. The brand new features in AS 7 mean that everyone can get something from this book, whether you have used JBoss AS before or not. Book Details - Paperback: 380 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (December 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1849516782
- ISBN-13: 978-1849516785
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| Unity 3.x Game Development Essentials Posted: 05 Jan 2012 11:05 AM PST 
Book Description Game Engines such as Unity are the power-tools behind the games we know and love. Unity is one of the most widely-used and best loved packages for game development and is used by everyone, from hobbyists to large studios, to create games and interactive experiences for the web, desktop, mobile, and console. With Unity's intuitive, easy to learn toolset and this book – it's never been easier to become a game developer. Taking a practical approach, this book will introduce you to the concepts of developing 3D games, before getting to grips with development in Unity itself – prototyping a simple scenario, and then creating a larger game. From creating 3D worlds to scripting and creating game mechanics you will learn everything you'll need to get started with game development. This book is designed to cover a set of easy-to-follow examples, which culminate in the production of a First Person 3D game, complete with an interactive island environment. All of the concepts taught in this book are applicable to other types of game, however, by introducing common concepts of game and 3D production, you’ll explore Unity to make a character interact with the game world, and build puzzles for the player to solve, in order to complete the game. At the end of the book, you will have a fully working 3D game and all the skills required to extend the game further, giving your end-user, the player, the best experience possible. Soon you will be creating your own 3D games with ease! What you will learn from this book: - An understanding of the Unity 3D Engine and game development
- Write code for game development in either C# or JavaScript
- Build a 3D island and set of mini-games for your players
- Incorporate terrains and externally produced 3D models to get your game environment up and running
- Create player character interactions
- Combine scripting and animation to transform your static objects into dynamic interactive game elements
- Add realistic effects to your games by using particle systems
- Create a stylish and efficient menu, and animate other interface elements
- Use Lightmapping to make your game environments look more professional
- Deploy your game to the web and desktop and share it with the wider world for testing and feedback.
Approach
This book follows an informal, demystifying approach to the world of game development with the Unity game engine. With no prior knowledge of game development or 3D required, you will learn from scratch, taking each concept at a time working up to a full 3D mini-game. You’ll learn scripting with C# or JavaScript and master the Unity development environment with easy-to-follow stepwise tasks. Who this book is written for
If you're a designer or animator who wishes to take their first steps into game development or prototyping, or if you've simply spent many hours sitting in front of video games, with ideas bubbling away in the back of your mind, Unity and this book should be your starting point. No prior knowledge of game production is required, inviting you to simply bring with you a passion for making great games. Book Details - Paperback: 488 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (December 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1849691444
- ISBN-13: 978-1849691444
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| Railo 3: Beginner’s Guide Posted: 05 Jan 2012 11:03 AM PST 
Book Description Railo Server is one of the quickest ways to start developing complex web applications online. Widely considered as the fastest CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) engine, Railo allows you to create dynamic web pages that can change depending on user input, database lookups, or even the time of day. Railo 3 Beginner's Guide will show you how to get up and running with Railo, as well as developing your web applications with the greatest of ease. You will learn how to install Railo and the basics of CFML to allow you to gradually build up your knowledge, and your dynamic web applications, as the book progresses. Using Packt's Beginner's Guide approach, this book will guide you, with step-by-step instructions, through installing the Railo Server on various environments. You will learn how to use caches, resources, Event Gateways and special scripting functions that will allow you to create webpages with limitless functionality. You will even explore methods of extending Railo by adding your own tags to the server and building custom extensions. Railo 3 Beginner's Guide is a must for anyone getting to grips with Railo Server. What you will learn from this book: - Step-by-step instructions for developing web sites with CFML
- Learn about all the resource types available and how to handle them
- Easy to follow steps to optimise your application for high traffic
- Create dynamic applications with the in-built Hibernate ORM
- Secure your server by setting up access restrictions and passwords
- Convert and display multimedia within your webpages
- Create your own extensions for custom functionality
Approach
Part of Packt's Beginner's Guide series, this book uses practical examples and screenshots to steadily guide the reader through setting up and using Railo. Who this book is written for
If you want to develop your own dynamic web applications using CFML, then this book is for you. No prior experience with Railo or CFML is required, although you will be expected to have some web application development experience and knowledge of HTML. Book Details - Paperback: 364 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (December 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1849513406
- ISBN-13: 978-1849513401
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| Do more with SOA Integration: Best of Packt Posted: 05 Jan 2012 10:58 AM PST 
Book Description Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) remains a buzzword in the business and IT community, largely because the ability to react quickly is of utmost importance. SOA can be the key solution to this. The challenge lies in the tricky task of integrating all the applications in a business through a Service Oriented Architecture, and "Do more with SOA Integration: Best of Packt" will help you do just that with content from a total of eight separate Packt books. "Do more with SOA Integration: Best of Packt" will help you learn SOA integration from scratch. It will help you demystify the concept of SOA integration, understand basic integration technologies and best practices, and get started with SOA Governance. "Do more with SOA Integration: Best of Packt" draws from eight separate titles from Packt's existing collection of excellent SOA books: - BPEL cookbook
- SOA Approach to Integration
- Service Oriented Architecture: An Integration Blueprint
- Building SOA-Based Composite Applications Using NetBeans IDE 6
- Oracle SOA Suite Developer’s Guide
- WS-BPEL 2.0 for SOA Composite Applications with Oracle SOA Suite 11g
- Oracle Modernization Solutions
- SOA Governance
The chapters in "Do more with SOA Integration: Best of Packt" help you to learn from the best SOA integration content in no less than eight separate Packt books. The book begins with a refresher of SOA and the various types of integration available, and then delves deeper into integration best practices with XML, binding components and web services from Packt books like "Oracle SOA Suite Developer’s Guide " and "BPEL Cookbook". Along the way you'll also learn from a number of real world scenarios. By the end of "Do more with SOA Integration: Best of Packt" you will be equipped with knowledge from a wide variety of Packt books and will have learnt from a range of practical approaches to really get to grips with SOA integration. Chapter listings with corresponding titles: - Preface – Dismantling SOA Hype: A Real-World Perspective (BPEL cookbook)
- Chapter 1 – Basic Principles: Types of integration (Service Oriented Architecture: An Integration Blueprint)
- Chapter 2 – Integration Architecture, Principles, and Patterns (SOA Approach to Integration)
- Chapter 3 – Base Technologies: Basic technologies needed for SOA integration (Service Oriented Architecture: An Integration Blueprint)
- Chapter 4 – Best Practices for Using XML for Integration (SOA Approach to Integration)
- Chapter 5 – Extending Enterprise Application Integration (BPEL cookbook)
- Chapter 6 – Service-Oriented ERP Integration (BPEL cookbook)
- Chapter 7 – Service Engines (Building SOA-Based Composite Applications Using NetBeans IDE 6)
- Chapter 8 – Binding Components (Building SOA-Based Composite Applications Using NetBeans IDE 6)
- Chapter 9 – SOA and Web Services Approach for Integration (SOA Approach to Integration)
- Chapter 10 – Service- and Process-Oriented Approach to Integration Using Web Services (SOA Approach to Integration)
- Chapter 11 – Loosely-coupling Services (Oracle SOA Suite Developer’s Guide)
- Chapter 12 – Integrating BPEL with BPMN using BPM Suite (WS-BPEL 2.0 for SOA Composite Applications with Oracle SOA Suite 11g)
- Chapter 13 – SOA Integration—Functional View, Implementation, and Architecture (Oracle Modernization Solutions)
- Chapter 14 – SOA Integration—Scenario in Detail (Oracle Modernization Solutions)
- Appendix: Bonus chapter – Establishing SOA Governance at Your Organization (SOA Governance)
What you will learn from this book: - Quickly get up and running with basic SOA concepts before delving into integration principles
- Dive into the basic technologies for SOA integration
- Get to grips with existing application landscapes for integration
- Take advantage of a range of best practices for using XML for integration
- Automate business processes by organizing underlying services
- Assemble services to build composite services and long-running business processes using BPEL
- Build highly scalable and performance-oriented processes using Oracle's modernization techniques
- Utilize a bonus Packt chapter to establish SOA Governance at your organization
- Learn from content with various styles and approaches and gain value from a range of existing content
Approach
"Do more with SOA Integration: Best of Packt" takes less of a discussion, and a more value approach to helping you to learn all you can about SOA integration. A medley of eight Packt books; each chapter has its own unique style so that you can learn from not only content written in a step-by-step tutorial style, but also from handbook and cookbook chapters. Who this book is written for
If you are a SOA architect or consultant who wants to extend your knowledge of SOA integration with the help of a wide variety of Packt books, particularly covering Oracle tools and products, then "Do more with SOA Integration: Best of Packt" is for you. You should have a good grasp of Service Oriented Architecture, but not necessarily of integration principles. Knowledge of vendor-specific tools would be an advantage but is not essential. Book Details - Paperback: 702 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (December 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 184968572X
- ISBN-13: 978-1849685726
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| Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development Cookbook Posted: 05 Jan 2012 10:55 AM PST 
Book Description There is a heavy demand in the marketplace for SharePoint developers that you could take advantage of – if only you had the opportunity to acquire the relevant skills! But, SharePoint 2010 is a big old product with a steep learning curve – where do you begin? This book has been designed to take the experienced ASP.NET developer from "beginner" to "professional" SharePoint developer in the shortest amount of time. You will be productive on you very first SharePoint development assignment with the knowledge and skills that you learn here. You will have distilled the essence of the author's many years of training, and leading development teams in SharePoint. This book uncovers the most common "pattern" of typical SharePoint development tasks encountered in the real world and puts the topics in a logical order with detailed step-by-step recipes for you to follow.
The practical example given builds and flows throughout the chapters and topics. By the end of this book, you will be able to apply the concepts to the challenges ahead of you! What you will learn from this book: - Build a full and virtualized SharePoint Server and SharePoint development environment entirely from available trial (or MSDN) software
- Understand SharePoint 2010 development with Visual Studio – packaging with features and deploying with solutions
- Get to grips with "schema" SharePoint style – site columns, content types, and list definitions – as applied to a document library
- Explore cover web control development with SharePoint – including user controls and web parts
- Learn about the very important XSLT List View Web Part, and also about creating list forms with both ASPX and InfoPath
- Get introduced to retrieval of SharePoint data via Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and also via the List Data Service (REST)
- Learn how to connect to data that is "outside" of SharePoint either in databases or via web services.
- Use out of the box approval workflow and then extend that with SharePoint Designer 2010
- Go through a "non-developer" overview of the important "other side" of SharePoint – web content management
Approach
The plan of the book is to build a relationship with the Author as your personal guide through the most common "pattern" of SharePoint development. In cookbook style, you will be led carefully step by step through a comprehensive set of recipes. The practical example starts quickly and builds logically throughout the chapters to create a common theme. You will be developing coding techniques that you will be able to apply to the real world. In fact, this book will train you for the first SharePoint development project you will join. Who this book is written for
This book is written for the ASP.NET developer who wants to get to the goal of "professional" SharePoint 2010 developer as quickly as possible, by learning the most important practical aspects of development that will be used in the real world. Book Details - Paperback: 276 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (December 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1849681503
- ISBN-13: 978-1849681506
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