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Book Description

Web development is simpler than it seems, especially with the software tools freely available on the Web. Breaking from the tradition of teaching a history of Web development, this book jumps to the good stuff from the outset so that students can start writing real applications.

This comprehensive Guide to Web Development with Java introduces readers to the three-tiered, Model-View-Controller architecture by using Hibernate, JSPs, and Java Servlets. These three technologies all use Java, so that a student with a background in programming will be able to master them with ease, with the end result of being able to create web applications that use MVC, validate user input and save data to a database.

Topics and features:

• Presents the many topics of web development in small steps, in an accessible, easy-to-follow style; focusing on the most important information first, and allowing the reader to gain basic understanding before moving forwards
• Uses existing powerful technologies that are freely available on the web to speed up web development, such as JSP, JavaBeans, annotations, JSTL, Java 1.5, Hibernate and Tomcat
• Discusses HTML, HTML Forms, Cascading Style Sheets and XML
• Starts with the simplest technology for web development (JSP) and gradually introduces the reader to more complex topics Download Now »

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CouchDB is a new breed of database for the Internet, geared to meet the needs of today’s dynamic web applications. With this concise introduction, you’ll learn how CouchDB’s simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data makes it ideal for the type of data and rapid response users now demand from your applications—and how easy CouchDB is to set up, deploy, maintain, and scale.

The code-packed examples in this book will help you learn how to work with documents, populate a simple database, replicate data from one database to another, and a host of other tasks.

• Install CouchDB on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, or (if you must) from the source code
• Interact with data through CouchDB’s RESTful API, and use standard HTTP operations, such as PUT, GET, POST, and DELETE
• Use Futon—CouchDB’s web-based interface— to manage databases and documents, and to configure replications
• Learn how to create, update, and delete documents in JSON format, and how to create and delete databases
• Work with design documents to get the formatting and indexing your application requires

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Why CouchDB?
Chapter 2. Installation
Chapter 3. CouchDB Basics Download Now »

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With this digital Early Release edition of Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, you get the entire book bundle in its earliest form – the author’s raw and unedited content – so you can take advantage of this content long before the book’s official release. You’ll also receive updates when significant changes are made, as well as the final ebook version.p>Ready to unleash the power of your massive dataset? With the latest edition of this comprehensive resource, you’ll learn how to use Apache Hadoop to build and maintain reliable, scalable, distributed systems. It’s ideal for programmers looking to analyze datasets of any size, and for administrators who want to set up and run Hadoop clusters.

This third edition covers recent changes to Hadoop, including new material on the new MapReduce API, as well as version 2 of the MapReduce runtime (YARN) and its more flexible execution model. You’ll also find illuminating case studies that demonstrate how Hadoop is used to solve specific problems.

• Store large datasets with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), then run distributed computations with MapReduce
• Use Hadoop’s data and I/O building blocks for compression, data integrity, serialization (including Avro), and persistence
• Discover common pitfalls and advanced features for writing real-world MapReduce programs
• Design, build, and administer a dedicated Hadoop cluster, or run Hadoop in the cloud
• Use Pig, a high-level query language for large-scale data processing Download Now »

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Oracle is an enormous system, with myriad technologies, options, and releases. Most users-even experienced developers and database administrators-find it difficult to get a handle on the full scope of the Oracle database. And, as each new Oracle version is released, users find themselves under increasing pressure to learn about a whole range of new technologies. The latest challenge is Oracle Database 11g.

This book distills an enormous amount of information about Oracle into a compact, easy-to-read volume filled with focused text, illustrations, and helpful hints. It contains chapters on:

• Oracle products, options, data structures, and overall architecture for Oracle Database 11g, as well as earlier releases (Oracle Database 10g, Oracle9i, and Oracle8i)
• Installing, running, managing, monitoring, networking, and tuning Oracle, including Enterprise Manager (EM) and Oracle’s self-tuning and management capabilities; and using Oracle security, auditing, and compliance (a new chapter in this edition)
• Multiuser concurrency, data warehouses, distributed databases, online transaction processing (OLTP), high availability, and hardware architectures (e.g., SMP, clusters, NUMA, and grid computing)
• Features beyond the Oracle database: Oracle Application Express, Fusion Middleware (including Oracle Application Server), and database SOA support as a Web services provider

The latest Oracle Database 11g features: query result set caching Download Now »

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PL/SQL, Oracle’s programming language for stored procedures, delivers a world of possibilities for your database programs. PL/SQL supplements the standard relational database language, SQL, with a wide range of procedural features, including loops, IF-THEN statements, advanced data structures, and rich transactional control–all closely integrated with the Oracle database server.

Knowing where to start with Oracle’s procedural language is not always obvious to a newcomer, especially considering the language’s feature set and the sheer size of the official documentation (not to mention Oracle’s ever-increasing number of pre-built PL/SQL programs). But Learning Oracle PL/SQL offers the signposts and guidance you need to come up to speed on the language, delivered in a manageable number of pages while covering all the essentials.

Topics include:

• PL/SQL–what is it, and why use it? Why use PL/SQL instead of Java?
• Syntax and examples of all core language constructs
• Creating, using, and reusing stored procedures, functions, and packages
• Building web-based applications using PL/SQL features available “out of the box” (such as PL/SQL Server Pages)
• Securing PL/SQL programs against attack
• Benefits of third-party developer tools and integrated development environments Download Now »

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However excellent they are, most computer books are inherently passive–readers simply take in text without having any opportunity to react to it. The Oracle PL/SQL Developer’s Workbook is a different kind of animal! It’s designed to engage you actively, to get you solving programming problems immediately, and to help you apply what you’ve learned about PL/SQL–and in the process deepen your knowledge of the language. By tackling the exercises in this workbook, you’ll find yourself moving more rapidly along the learning curve to join the growing ranks of PL/SQL experts.

The Oracle PL/SQL Developer’s Workbook is a companion to Steven Feuerstein’s bestselling Oracle PL/SQL Programming and his other PL/SQL books from O’Reilly. It contains a carefully constructed set of problems and solutions that will test your language skills and help you become a better developer–both with PL/SQL and with other languages. Exercises are provided at three levels: beginner, intermediate, and expert. The workbook exercises cover all the major features of PL/SQL, including those new to Oracle8i (e.g., Java and web features, autonomous transactions, and bulk binds).

You’ll find chapters on:

• Basic language elements–variables, naming, loops, conditional and sequential control, exception handling, and records.
• Data structures–index-by tables, nested tables, variables arrays (VARRAYs), and object technology.
• Database interaction–cursors, DML and transaction management Download Now »