Better, Faster, Lighter Java

Preface; Who Should Read This Book?; Organization of This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: The Inevitable Bloat; 1.1 Bloat Drivers; 1.2 Options; 1.3 Five Principles for Fighting the Bloat; 1.4 Summary; Chapter 2: Keep It Simple; 2.1 The Value of Simplicity; 2.2 Process and Simplicity; 2.3 Your Safety Net; 2.4 Summary; Chapter 3: Do One Thing, and Do It Well; 3.1 Understanding the Problem; 3.2 Distilling the Problem; 3.3 Layering Your Architecture; 3.4 Refactoring to Reduce Coupling; 3.5 Summary; Chapter 4: Strive for Transparency; 4.1 Benefits of Transparency; 4.2 Who's in Control?; 4.3 Alternatives to Transparency; 4.4 Reflection; 4.5 Injecting Code; 4.6 Generating Code; 4.7 Advanced Topics; 4.8 Summary; Chapter 5: You Are What You Eat; 5.1 Golden Hammers; 5.2 Understanding the Big Picture; 5.3 Considering Technical Requirements; 5.4 Summary; Chapter 6: Allow for Extension; 6.1 The Basics of Extension; 6.2 Tools for Extension; 6.3 Plug-In Models; 6.4 Who Is the Customer?; 6.5 Summary; Chapter 7: Hibernate; 7.1 The Lie; 7.2 What Is Hibernate?; 7.3 Using Your Persistent Model; 7.4 Evaluating Hibernate; 7.5 Summary; Chapter 8: Spring; 8.1 What Is Spring?; 8.2 Pet Store: A Counter-Example; 8.3 The Domain Model; 8.4 Adding Persistence; 8.5 Presentation; 8.6 Summary; Chapter 9: Simple Spider; 9.1 What Is the Spider?; 9.2 Examining the Requirements; 9.3 Planning for Development; 9.4 The Design; 9.5 The Configuration Service; 9.6 The Crawler/Indexer Service; 9.7 The Search Service; 9.8 The Console Interface; 9.9 The Web Service Interface; 9.10 Extending the Spider; Chapter 10: Extending jPetStore; 10.1 A Brief Look at the Existing Search Feature; 10.2 Replacing the Controller; 10.3 The User Interface (JSP); 10.4 Setting Up the Indexer; 10.5 Making Use of the Configuration Service; 10.6 Adding Hibernate; 10.7 Summary; Chapter 11: Where Do We Go from Here?; 11.1 Technology; 11.2 Process; 11.3 Challenges; 11.4 Conclusion; Chapter 12: Bibliography; 12.1 Books; 12.2 Referenced Internet Sources; 12.3 Helpful Internet Sources; 12.4 Other References; Colophon;