Since its release, Spring Framework has transformed virtually every aspect of Java development including web applications, security, aspect-oriented programming, persistence, and messaging. Spring Batch, one of its newer additions, now brings the same familiar Spring idioms to batch processing. Spring Batch addresses the needs of any batch...

This volume is based on the International Conference Logic at Work, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in December 1992. The 14 papers in this volume are selected from 86 submissions and 8 invited contributions and are all devoted to knowledge representation and reasoning under uncertainty, which are core issues of formal artificial...

This book is intended as an introduction to the design of digital processors that are dedicated to performing a particular task. It presents a number of general methods and also covers general purpose architectures such as programmable processors and configurable logic. In fact, the dedicated digital system might be based on a standard...

Welcome to jQuery UI Themes: Beginner's Guide. This introductory text will get you started with developing your own themes for jQuery UI applications. Starting with the general concepts of user interface themes, this book walks the reader through everything from the most basic ideas in jQuery UI to more advanced topics such as icons...

JOOMLA! HAS NOT BEEN AROUND THAT LONG COMPARED to some of the other open source Content Management Systems (CMSs). But in the relatively short time that Joomla! has been available, it has made a huge impact in the world of CMS Websites. There are thousands of Joomlal-based Websites on the Internet today and the number is growing by...

The FPL'94 workshop was organized by the Czech Technical University and the University of Kaiserslautern, in co-operation with IEEE...

In developing the New Perspectives Series, our goal was to create books that give...

A book is like a window that allows you to look into the world. The window is shaped by the author and that makes that every window presents a unique view of the world. This is certainly true for this book. It is shaped by the topics and the projects throughout my career. Even more so, this book reflects my own style of working and...

Enterprise Java Beans enable rapid and simplified development of secure and portable applications based on Java technology. Creating and using EJBs can be challenging and rewarding. Among the challenges are learning the EJB technology itself, learning how to use the development environment you have chosen for EJB development, and the testing...

Written in a cookbook style, this book offers solutions using a recipe-based approach. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions followed by an analysis of what was done in each task and other useful information. The cookbook approach means you can dive into whatever recipes you want in no particular order. This book is for web...

The Shelly Cashman Series® offers the finest textbooks in computer education. This Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 book utilizes an innovative step-by-step pedagogy, which integrates demonstrations of professional-quality programs with in-depth discussions of programming concepts and techniques and opportunities for hands-on practice...