• Softcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Apress
• ISBN: 1590592964

Practical WebObjects --- is a book for intermediate WebObjects developers who want to increase their overall knowledge of WebObjects, or those who are trying to solve specific application development problems.

The book was written by Charles Hill and Sacha Mallais. Both authors are senior developers at Global Village Consulting, a software development consultancy that specializes in WebObjects-based web applications, and are experienced WebObjects users.

While Apple provides a modicum of documentation for developers just starting with WebObjects, more skilled WebObjects developers typically learn from each other or via trial-and-error. This book, Practical WebObjects, is 100% pragmatic, featuring working, world-tested solutions for difficult problems. Written by two expert WebObjects developers, and based on their own code framework, the book is sure to be invaluable for WebObjects developers who want to increase their overall knowledge of WebObjects, or are trying to solve specific application development problems.

Here's what some of our readers had to say:

• "If you are just starting out there will be lots in it you don't understand. That will be OK, the stuff you 'do' understand will make you grateful you own it. And once you've outgrown the Apple tutorials and the Joshua Marker Quick Pro guide, you will be very glad to have it on your bookshelf." - David LeBer, Codebase Software Systems
• "Your book is outstanding! Your examples and discussion on key WebObjects internals is essential reading and really highlights key areas to consider for robust WebObjects development." - Paul Van Hout, Pragmatyxs
• "The authors do an excellent job of explaining crucial concepts like the request-response loop, the EOF stack, object graph concepts, validation, etc. Unlike other books this one cuts directly to the chase. For beginners some chapters act as road map through Apple's documentation... Its a problem solver - the WebObjects edition of the Swiss army knife. The authors present ready-made solutions to many common tasks. This book will save you hours if not weeks. And it does so while completely explaining not only the solution but also the reasonings and techniques behind it. This makes the book an interesting read and it just may spark the idea needed to solve even problems not covered." - Pierre Bernard
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The book includes the following chapters (or see Detailed Table of Contents or Index).

• Chapter 1--Making Your Code Better
• Chapter 2--EOModelling Techniques
• Chapter 3--Managing the Object Graph
• Chapter 4--Authentication and Security
• Chapter 5--Input and State Validation of Enterprise Objects
• Chapter 6--The Secret Life of Components
• Chapter 7--Components and Elements
• Chapter 8--Localization
• Chapter 9--Copying Enterprise Objects
• Chapter 10--WebObjects in a J2EE World
• Chapter 11--XML and WebObjects

If you would like to purchase a signed copy of Practical WebObjects, please contact Global Village Consulting via email at info@global-village.net.

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