Bill Brogden's Book Recommendations

Recommended Books On Java
Cool news! Marcus Green, my coauthor on several Java books, is trying the self-publishing route with an introductory text. Buy Marcus' Book HERE! Elliot Rusty Harold's Processing XML with Java (web site for the book) An extremely thorough and up to date reference. JavaSpaces Principles, Patterns and Practice by Feeeman, Hupfer and Arnold. I found this book very helpful when setting out on the unfamiliar sea of Spaces programming. Unfortunately it is a bit dated but there is nothing newer. Professional Apache Tomcat 5 Published by Wrox in 2004 ISBN: 0-7645-5902-8. I have found this to be a very handy reference that fills in the gaps in the online Tomcat documentation. It actually covers both Tomcat 4 and 5 - very important since both are in wide use. JESS in Action by Ernest Friedman-Hill. A very clear explanation of the rather tricky topic of Expert Systems (Rule-Based Systems) with extended practical examples in Java using the JESS library. Java Message Service by Richard Monson-Haefel and David A. Chappell. This book was a big help to me when I created the demonstration of SOAP message transmission with JMS for chapter 8 of the SOAP book. More to come as I get the time!
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Recommended Books On Java

Cool news! Marcus Green, my coauthor on several Java books, is trying the self-publishing route with an introductory text. Buy Marcus' Book HERE!
Elliot Rusty Harold's Processing XML with Java (web site for the book) An extremely thorough and up to date reference.
JavaSpaces Principles, Patterns and Practice by Feeeman, Hupfer and Arnold. I found this book very helpful when setting out on the unfamiliar sea of Spaces programming. Unfortunately it is a bit dated but there is nothing newer.
Professional Apache Tomcat 5 Published by Wrox in 2004 ISBN: 0-7645-5902-8. I have found this to be a very handy reference that fills in the gaps in the online Tomcat documentation. It actually covers both Tomcat 4 and 5 - very important since both are in wide use.
JESS in Action by Ernest Friedman-Hill. A very clear explanation of the rather tricky topic of Expert Systems (Rule-Based Systems) with extended practical examples in Java using the JESS library.
Java Message Service by Richard Monson-Haefel and David A. Chappell. This book was a big help to me when I created the demonstration of SOAP message transmission with JMS for chapter 8 of the SOAP book.
More to come as I get the time!

Studio Foglio presents Girl Genius, Victorian SteamPunk, Mad Science, Romance, Weird stuff. One of my favorite comics by very creative people. Buy lots of copies.