Finally, a comprehensive guide to the Linux VM!

VM's behavior affects every Linux kernel subsystem and dramatically impacts overall performance. But until now, there was only one way to understand VM: study the poorly documented source one line at a time. Now there's an easier, faster alternative. This book describes VM in unprecedented detail, presenting both theoretical foundations and a line-by-line source code commentary. It systematically covers everything from physical memory description to out-of-memory management. Coverage includes:

• Linux VM 2.4 architecture in depth-with diagrams and call graphs
• Physical memory description, page tables, address spaces, and memory allocation
• High memory, swapping, shared memory, and much more
• Expert guidance for analyzing the code of any open source project
• New Linux 2.6 kernel features in every chapter

Well organized and superbly written, Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager will be indispensable to every kernel programmer and researcher.

CD-ROM INCLUDED

Complete VM Learning Lab! Contains the author's new toolkit for exploring VM, including a browsable version of kernel source, CodeViz call graph generator; and VMRegress for analyzing and benchmarking VM. Also includes all code commentary in HTML, PDF, and plain text formats.

J2EE

Applications and BEA WebLogic Server®

Second Edition

Revised by Angela Yochem David Carlson Tad Stephens

A revised and updated edition of the best-selling book by Michael Girdley, Rob Woollen, and Sanda L. Emerson, this is your start-to-finish guide to developing Web-based applications using J2EE 1.3 (with references to 1.4 features) and the new BEA WebLogic Server 8.1.

One step at a time, and one technology at a time, the authors walk you through building a complete, robust Web application. You'll prototype user interfaces, code server-side presentation logic and JSPs, implement database connectivity, establish central registries, provide JMS messaging, code EJBs, even integrate email facilities. Along the way, you'll discover how each module fits into your overall application design, as you learn best practices for enhancing availability, reliability, and security. Coverage includes:

• Leveraging the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern
• Using JDBC and BEA WebLogic's transaction support to integrate enterprise databases
• Preparing your applications to run in clustered BEA WebLogic Server environments
• Developing EJBs that fully leverage BEA WebLogic Server's container services
• Best practices and guidelines for testing, compilation, and deployment
• Working with WebLogic Workshop, BEA's unified development environment
• Utilizing BEA WebLogic Platform to integrate business processes and back office systems in an end-to-end application framework

J2EE Applications and BEA WebLogic Server, Second Edition is highly approachable for WebLogic beginners, and exceptionally useful for experienced developers. Whatever your background, it'll help you build the high-performance, high-value Web applications your business demands.

CD-ROM INCLUDES

Full evaluation versions of BEA WebLogic Server 8.1, WebLogic Server Administration Framework, and WebLogic Workshop, plus sample application source code and data, JSPs, EJBs, and build scripts.

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Back CoverThe definitive introduction for today's most powerful PHP 5 techniques

In this book, PHP 5's co-creator and two leading PHPdevelopers show you how to make the most of PHP 5's industrial-strengthenhancements in any project -- no matterhow large or complex. Their unique insights and realistic examples illuminatePHP 5's new object model, powerful design patterns, improved XML Web servicessupport, and much more. Whether you're creating Web applications, extensions,packages, or shell scripts -- or migrating PHP 4 code -- here are high-poweredsolutions you won't find anywhere else.

• Review PHP's syntax and master its object-oriented capabilities-- from properties and methods to polymorphism, interfaces, and reflection

• Master the four most important design patterns for PHPdevelopment

• Write powerful Web applications: handle input, cookies, sessionextension, and more

• Integrate with MySQL, SQLite, and other database engines

• Provide efficient error handling that's transparent to your users

• Leverage PHP 5's improved XML support -- including parsing, XSLTconversions, and more

• Build XML-based Web services with XML-RPC and SOAP

• Make the most of PEAR: work with the repository, use keypackages, and create your own

• Upgrade PHP 4 code to PHP 5 -- compatibility issues, techniques,and practical workarounds

• Improve script performance: tips and tools for PHP optimization

• Use PHP extensions to handle files/streams, regular expressions,dates/times, and graphics

• Create original extensions and shell scripts

If you're a software developer new to PHP, you'll leapquickly into PHP and its new object-oriented capabilities. If you're anexperienced PHP programmer, you already recognize PHP's convenience andsimplicity. Now, discover all of its extraordinary power!

At this book's exclusive, private link to Zend.com, downloada fully functional 90-day version of Zend Studio IDE, today's breakthrough toolfor developing, managing, and debugging PHP code.

Bruce Perens' Open Source Series is a definitive series ofLinux and Open Source books by the world's leading Linux software developers.Bruce Perens is the primary author of The Open Source Definition, the formativedocument of the open source movement and the former Debian GNU/Linux Project Leader.

Robust Java

Exception Handling, Testing and Debugging

Complete guide to Java platform exceptions and exception handling

Proven strategies for architects, designers, and developers

Key design patterns for exception management

Stephen Stelting

Your one-stop tutorial & reference for Java exceptions and exception handling

Sorry, you're not perfect. And neither is your code. But you can build more robust software: code that handles unexpected problems gracefully, and keeps on running. In Robust Java, Sun Java expert Stephen Stelting shows you how. Using extensive code examples, Steve covers every facet of Java exceptions and exception handling, encompassing architecture, design, development, testing, and debugging. With the help of this book, you'll:

• Discover best practices for Java exception handling
• Learn failure mode analysis: how to anticipate where errors are most likely to occur
• Understand the use of exceptions in complex APIs and frameworks including J2EE, JDBC, RMI, JMS, and more
• Master application-wide exception handling strategies
• Implement exceptions in complex distributed multi-tier systems
• Learn proven design patterns for handling exceptions in code
• Perform more effective Java testing and debugging using open source tools
• Understand key architectural decisions that will improve robustness

Robust Java covers the entire development lifecycle—and it will support you in any development role: programmer, tester, project manager, or architect. No book offers more useful, realistic guidance for building rock-solid, maintainable Java code.

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An initiative of the Free Standards Group, the Linux Standard Base (LSB) is a set of standards designed to increase compatibility among Linux distributions and enable applications to run on any LSB-compliant system. The advent of LSB 2.0 is revolutionary in that it allows ISVs to create “shrink-wrapped software” for the Linux platform much in the same way they already do for Windows.

Written by the team that created the LSB, Building Applications with the Linux Standard Base shows developers how to create, test, and certify software for LSB 2.0 compliance. The book’s hands-on approach lets readers quickly understand how to write Linux applications that are portable across multiple distributions, including those from SuSE, Mandrake, and Solaris. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the full LSB 2.0 specification and the sample program files used in the book.

Coverage includes

• LSB coding practices
• Software packing and installation issues
• UNIX-to-Linux migration tips
• Testing Linux distribution and applications for LSB compatibility
• Examples of applications using the LSB
• Relevant standards for Linux

Linux is the fastest-growing Java development platform because it saves money and then saves time by serving as a platform for both development and deployment. But developers face significant platform-specific challenges when managing and deploying Java applications in a controlled production environment. Written for Java and Linux developers alike, Java™ Application Development on Linux® is the hands-on guide to the full Java application development lifecycle on Linux.

Determined to spare other developers hours of trial and error, the authorsAlbing and Schwarz demonstrate the platform, tools, and application development by constructing a real-world, database-driven budget application. After a simple command-line application introduces basic tools, this program leads readers through business logic object analysis, database design, Java servlet UIs, Java Server Pages (JSP) UIs, Swing GUIs, and Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) GUIs. Scaling up to the enterprise level provides the opportunity to use the JBoss Application Server and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). The authors conclude by demonstrating how a hierarchy of budgets can be created, tracked, and shared with Concurrent Versions System (CVS). A companion Website includes all source code and a link to each tool described.

Readers learn how to:

• Use development tools available on Linux, such as the GNU Compiler for Java (gcj), Ant, the NetBeans IDE, IBM's Eclipse Java IDE, JUnit, and SunONE Studio
• Develop business logic layers using Java DataBase Connectivity (JDBC)
• Add a Web interface using servlets and JSPs
• Add a GUI using Sun's Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) and IBM's SWT
• Deploy EJBs in Linux

The authors conclude by demonstrating how a hierarchy of budgets can be created, tracked, and shared with Concurrent Versions System (CVS). A companion Website includes all source code and a link to each tool described.

Java™ Application Development on Linux® can propel you from a standing start to the full-speed development and deployment of Java applications on Linux.

"...not only the best book on Qt I have ever seen, but also the best book presenting any programming framework. Every sentence appears to be carefully worded, and every chapter has a sound concept, and so does the work as a whole." --Matthias Ettrich, Trolltech's lead developer, founder of the KDE project

"The 'Tao of Qt'.... The Qt system is a beautiful example of object oriented design, and the authors take advantage of this.... The authors have done an excellent job of presenting the subject in an interesting and engaging way...." --Ron McCarty, Instructor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College

The first official Trolltech guide to Qt 3.2 programming!

Straight from Trolltech, this book covers all you need to build industrial-strength applications with Qt 3.2.x and C++--applications that run natively on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, and embedded Linux with no source code changes! The book teaches solid Qt programming practices; it is not a rehash of the documentation. You'll find start-to-finish coverage packed with examples, plus a CD with the Qt 3.2 toolset and Borland C++ compilers--including a non-commercial Qt 3.2 for Windows available nowhere else!

• Build powerful C++ GUI applications quickly and easily
• Design dialogs and main windows visually and in code
• Learn Qt's innovative typesafe signals and slots mechanism
• Use layouts to create forms that automatically size and scale
• Create custom signals, slots, events, and controls
• Program the ''Qt way'' with techniques for Qt 3.2 that'll work with Qt 4
• Code applications with menus, toolbars, dialogs, and drag and drop
• Utilize 2D and 3D graphics, multithreading, and networking
• Write database and XML applications
• Internationalize to reach foreign markets
• Exploit platform-specific-features like ActiveX

Already using Qt or just starting out? Evaluating Qt or managing it? Building open source applications--or commercial applications? Want to develop for Windows without buying an expensive compiler? Whatever your goal, this is the only book you need!

CD-ROM: Everything you need to write great GUI programs!

• Qt 3.2 Non-Commercial Edition for Windows
• Borland C++ 5.5 Non-Commercial Edition
• Borland C++ 6.0 Trial Edition
• Qt 3.2 Free Editions for Unix/Linux/Mac OS X
• SQLite database
• The book's code examples

Make the most of completely revamped administration tools in WebSphere Version 5

IBM WebSphere Version 5 offers a completely rewritten, radically improved infrastructure for administering servers and applications. Now, its creators have written the definitive WebSphere Version 5 administration reference and tutorial: everything you need to manage WebSphere to the highest levels of performance and efficiency.

The authors systematically cover all four WebSphere administration toolsets: command-line utilities, the new Administrative Console, scripting tools, and Java management APIs. You’ll find a complete library of code examples, plus powerful new insider’s tips for maximizing your productivity as a WebSphere administrator.

Whether you’re managing WebSphere Version 5 or incorporating administrative support into new WebSphere applications, this book provides you with the techniques, examples, and tips you need to do it right.

• Fundamentals of WebSphere administration: servers, nodes, node agents, cells, clusters, and the deployment manager
• Revamped package structure of WebSphere Version 5 and its implications
• Process internals, distributed administration features, administrative security, and XML configuration file structure
• Command-line tools: a complete reference with practical examples
• Web-based graphical management with the new Administrative Console
• Scripting the management features of WebSphere Version 5 with wsadmin
• Writing custom management programs
• Extending the native WebSphere administrative system with new managed options
• Using Java administrative APIs to manage WebSphere applications from other products
• Sum Includes extensive code examples, real-world scenarios, and best practices