Stripes -- and Java web development is fun again by Frederic Daoud

By Frederic Daoud

In my opinion, I think of this ebook the easiest confluence of an outstanding explication with a superb expertise seeing that C Programming via K&R. Like K&R, this ebook proceeds from the deceptively easy but strong via all of the good points and features in a linear and constant approach. It dollars the paper satisfied technique (pioneered via Petzold in in his Programming home windows sequence) of unveiling five mistaken methods prior to ultimately one correct, and consistently supplies the way in which for every perform after which strikes on.

Daoud does get pleasure from describing an enlightened platform, a meta MVC platform (a MVC framework in your MVC2 program) that's to software program because the announcement of Independence is to files. Stripes is a box to internet functions as Smalltalk was once (is) for patron purposes. The good points and elements of stripes are constant, thematic, equally sized and pushed by way of either a view from 10,000 toes and the event of a programmer within the trenches. whereas Stripes makes use of Java five gains to enforce code pushed code that does programmatic busywork immediately, it additionally roles off gracefully the place the platform ends and the consumer begins. So, whereas many aspects of Stripes use clever binding pushed via metadata (whether java inherent or embellished with annotations), it maintains with use of interfaces and generics to permit person outlined plug-in polymorphism for formatters (data to strings), converters (strings to info) and different platform gains. whereas different good began and which means initiatives and books (e.g Spring and Hibernate) turn into more and more choked with Petzold-like blather (first five fallacious how you can do it, in order that you could savour what comes subsequent, after which three correct how you can do it), this booklet is a continuing jazz-like crescendo of best-practices.

I will credits studying Harnessing Hibernate by way of James Elliott with turning me directly to Stripes. yet even this booklet offered a Rube Goldberg way to the matter of facile binding of request facts to Hibernate version items (with yet-to-be lazily loaded similar facts requiring a consultation) utilizing a Stripes Interceptor to rebind the unbound facts. Stipersist, as defined through Daoud, maintains Fennel's process of: given every little thing now we have discovered and every thing we have now to be had, how do we do that correct FOR YOU.

This is my new favourite programming publication and framework. due to this e-book, i'm going to use Stripes to coordinate different top perform applied sciences, comparable to Hibernate and Spring, instead of the opposite direction round. nevertheless, permit me recognize what Daoud and Fennel do: Stripes is aware it is position within the software program ecology. It does not try to be Kudzu-like, overwhelming range. It has a delicately defined and limited project - being the MVC of your VC and facilitating co-operation with the remainder without xml config.