Book reviews

[Book review] Pro HTML5 Programming

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I heard about this book after attending a presentation on HTML5 by one of its authors, Peter Lubbers. I found his demonstration about the offline cache, a new feature in HTML5, very interesting and so I wanted to know more about HTML5.
The book has an official site : http://www.prohtml5.com
In my opinion, this book is a good introduction in the new features of HTML5.

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Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1, sixth edition, available now

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I just noticed that the sixth edition of the book Enterprise JavaBeans, updated to the specification 3.1, from O’Reilly, by Andrew Lee Rubinger (JBoss) and Bill Burke (JBoss), is now available.
I am looking forward to reading it.
The book does not focus on any specific application server. As mentioned in the introduction :

“Because the focus of this book is on developing vendor independent EJB components and solutions, we have stayed away from proprietary extensions and vendor-dependent idioms wherever possible. You can use any EJBcompliant server with this book, but you should be familiar with your server’s specific installation, deployment, and runtime-management procedures to work with the examples.”

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Review of the book JSF 2.0 Cookbook

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This book covers the new features of JSF 2 in the form of about 1OO hundred recipes.
In my opinion these recipes give a good overview of the new capabilities of the latest version of JSF.
JSF 2 Cookbook

The chapters get right to the point with very common problems/requirements in web development and their solutions.

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My book on EJB 3 is now on sale

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I received an email from the editor informing me that the book is now printed and will be available in bookstores next week (from July 5th, 2010). It is already available for sale on Amazon and ENI. An online version is also available. Here is the cover of the book :