Review of "More Java Gems by Dwight Deugo", Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN: 0-521-77477-2

I could not find an explanation of MPLS, VoIP or the importance of virtual circuit switching. The software implications of these protocols for mobile computing need focus. The use of UML is excellent. The cases showing how to use UML are insightful. I am looking forward to a heavily edited second edition containing just the application software structures that is the merit of the book. I recommend the book to software developers building application for nomadic and mobile users. There are no problems for professors to use as homework assignments and has little theory. Except for the jargon it is an easy read-but very, very long. So, with a title " Hibernate: A J2EE Developer's Guide " and a printing of January 2005, I opened this book with the expectation that it will teach its reader about Hibernate within the context of J2EE. I also thought that it would address the latest version of Hibernate – i.e. one of the 3.x versions. The first thing I did was open the preface – always a good place to start – and I found a Roadmap telling the reader that the book was basically written to be read in two ways depending on user inclinations ; chapters 2-5 for a real world introduction via code examples and chapters 6-9 which are higher-level introductions. So the reader can proceed straight through to learn from examples first (my personal preference) or can read the theory section first and then run through the examples. The later chapters, 10-13, discuss more advanced issues of performance, application schema management, general best practices, and future directions for Hibernate. So with that under my belt, I was looking forward to a good read, some exemplary code, and hopefully some insight into more advanced features and best practices. More Java Gems is a collection of articles appearing in the now out-of-print magazine Java Report selected and introduced by Dwight Deugo, and published by Cambridge University Press, © 2000, 484 pp., 0-521-77477-2 (paperback), out of print (available online for around $4.00). This book is a second collection of 34 thematically-arranged articles from the Java Review magazine which published from 1996 through December of 2001. Chapter 1 is entitled Overview so you would expect an overview of O/R Mapping and an explanation why it is hard but at the same time necessary for any medium to large software projects. The author does …