[wtp-dev] WTP Book Released!

[Lawrence Mandel <lmandel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm very pleased to announce that the
first WTP book in the Eclipse Series has been released. Eclipse Web
Tools Platform: Developing Java Web Applications by Naci Dai, Lawrence
Mandel and Arthur Ryman is now available from retailers such as Amazon,
Barnes
& Noble, and Chapters/Indigo.

An overview of the book follows below.
Visit the book's web site for more information including the table of contents
and downloadable source code examples (licensed under the EPL).

http://www.eclipsewtp.org

Eclipse
Web Tools Platform focuses on the Web Tool Platform (WTP), which seamlessly
integrates all the tools a Web developer needs, including Web Tools, XML
Tools, EJB Tools, Web Service Tools, and more. WTP includes a set of core
tools for Web application developers and a set of platform application
programming interfaces (API) for tool vendors. 

This book is the first definitive guide to the Web Tools Platform and presents
an in-depth description of all the tools that make up WTP and an introduction
to how they can be extended. It also covers Web application architecture
and shows you how to set up a development project. It will appeal to Eclipse
users, Enterprise Java developers, and companies and developers who reuse
Eclipse in their products. Discussion includes many tools that are new
to the Eclipse community and provide functionality that has not been present
in Eclipse itself. This book will show Eclipse users and developers how
to use and extend the new tools and incorporate them into their own products.

Key topics covered include: Java Web Application Development, Web Application
Architecture and Design, Multi-tier Application Design, The Presentation
Tier-HTML, _javascript_, CSS, Servlets, JSP, XML, and XSLT, The Business
Logic Tier-Developing with EJBs, The Persistence Tier-Database Access and
JDBC, Adding a Web Service Interface to Your Application, Testing Your
Web Application, Unit and Integration Testing, Extending WTP, Adding New
Servers, Supporting New File Types, Creating WSDL Extensions, Customizing
Resource Resolution, Other Web Tools Based on Eclipse, What's Coming in
Future Versions of WTP. 


Lawrence Mandel

Software Developer
IBM Rational Software
Phone: 905 - 413 - 3814   Fax: 905 - 413 - 4920
lmandel@xxxxxxxxxx