Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Launch New Books at JavaOne 2007: Line-Up of Authors to Participate in On-Site Bookstore Signing

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SAN FRANCISCO (BusinessWire EON) May 8, 2007 --     AW and PH will also preview at JavaOne 2007 anticipated Summer 2007 titles, including Filthy Rich Clients, authored by Chet Haase and Guy Romain, which is currently available as a final draft manuscript through the Safari Books Online Rough Cut service, http://safari.informit.com/roughcuts

AW and PH recently launched an entirely new product line called "Short Cuts," succinct, to the point, digital quick-reads on new and existing technologies, delivered in Adobe Reader PDF. Short Cuts recently published for Java programmers include: Google Web Toolkit Solutions: Cool & Useful Stuff (Digital Short Cut), authored by David Geary and AJAX and JavaServer Faces (Digital Short Cut), authored by David Geary and Cay Horstmann. More information is available at www.informit.com/shortcuts or http://safari.informit.com/shortcuts.

Pearson Education is also announcing at JavaOne a new conference series scheduled for Fall of 2007, providing a forum for learning and collaboration. Pearson's Google Web Toolkit conference will take place December 3-6, 2007, in San Francisco. Attendees can meet and learn directly from the Google staff who have built GWT as well as the developers who are building GWT applications. Those interested in attending, speaking or exhibiting can contact Barbara Gavin at Barbara.Gavin@PearsonEd.com.

AW and PH are JavaOne Media Co-Sponsors (http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/pavilion/media.jsp) and will display samples of new books and hold promotions for attendees at its Booth #1412. New AW/PH books making their debut at JavaOne will be commercially available at a discount at the on-site Digital Guru Bookstore, which will also host a line-up of author signings during the week. AW/PH Authors participating in book signings include: Joshua Bloch (Java Puzzlers; Effective Java) on Tues. 5/8 @ 4:30pm & Wed. 5/9 @ 12 noon; Inderjeet Singh (Designing Enterprise Applications with the J2EE(TM) Platform, Second Edition) on Wed. 5/9 @ 3pm; David Geary (Core JavaServer Faces, 2nd Ed.) on Wed. 5/9 @ 5pm; Brian Goetz (Java Concurrency in Practice) on Thurs. 5/10 @ 12:30pm.

New titles from Sun Microsystems Press (www.prenhallprofessional.com/smp), a publishing partnership among Sun Microsystems, Addison-Wesley and Prentice Hall, include Core JavaServer Faces, Second Edition, authored by David Geary and Cay Horstmann. This is the updated version of the #1 guide to JavaServer Faces (JSF). Geary and Horstmann have thoroughly updated the first edition to reflect the latest feature enhancements, the powerful new role in Ajax development, and valuable open source innovations for writing superior JSF 1.2 production code.

Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the Netbeans Platform, authored by Tim Boudreau, Jaroslav Tulach and Geertjan Wielenga, focuses on using the NetBeans Platform as a framework for creating rich client applications that can be written once and then run on any operating system. The leaders in NetBeans share their collective years of accumulated wisdom, best practices and practical advice.

New titles also include:

SOA Using Java Web Services, authored by Mark Hansen, is a hands-on guide to implementing Web services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with the Java EE platform, SOA application frameworks, and the GlassFish application server. Hansen covers creating, deploying, and invoking Web services that can be composed into loosely coupled SOA applications.

JBoss Seam: Simplicity and Power Beyond Java EE, authored by Michael Juntao Yuan and Thomas Heute, shows how JBoss Seam enables developers to create web applications that would have been difficult or impossible with previous Java frameworks. The authors provide hands-on examples and a complete case study application to demonstrate how to leverage JBoss Seam's state management capabilities, to integrate business processes and rules, to use AJAX with Seam, and how to deploy an application into production.

For more information about the titles mentioned in this release, please visit www.awprofessional.com, www.prenhallprofessional.com, www.informit.com; for more information on Short Cuts and Rough Cuts, please visit, respectively: www.informit.com/shortcuts and http://safari.informit.com/shortcuts.

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