Brief Description
Up until now, Spring Framework has had to rely on third party open and closed source deployment tools and application servers like BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Red Hat JBoss and more. Well, not any more. Spring has finally developed its own deployment tool, SpringSource dm Server.
Pro SpringSource dm Server by Gary Mak is one of the first booksthat cover Springa (TM)s new deployment tool and enterprise Java application server. Spring is still a hot area for todaya (TM)s Java programmer and developer.
About the Authors
Gary Mak , founder and chief consultant of Meta-Archit Software Technology Limited, has been a technical architect and application developer on the enterprise Java platform for more than seven years. He is the author of the Apress books Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach and Pro SpringSource dm Server. In his career, Gary has developed a number of Java-based software projects, most of which are application frameworks, system infrastructures, and software tools. He enjoys designing and implementing the complex parts of software projects. Gary has a master's degree in computer science. His research interests include object-oriented technology, aspect-oriented technology, design patterns, software reuse, and domain-driven development.
Gary specializes in building enterprise applications on technologies including Spring, Hibernate, JPA, JSF, Portlet, AJAX, and OSGi. He has been using the Spring Framework in his projects since Spring version 1.0. Gary has been an instructor of courses on enterprise Java, Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, and agile development. He has written a series of Spring and Hibernate tutorials as course materials, parts of which are open to the public, and they're gaining popularity in the Java community. In his spare time, he enjoys playing tennis and watching tennis competitions.
Daniel Rubio is an independent consultant with over 10 years of experience in enterprise and web-based software. More recently, Daniel is founder and technical lead at MashupSoft.com.
About the Book
I have been a big fan of the Spring Framework since its first release in 2004 and have been using it in almost all my projects. When the application server written by the same company the SpringSource dm Server first came out in April 2008, even though it was in the beta release, I immediately installed it on my machine and tried it out. Note that when it was in the beta release, the dm Server was named the SpringSource Application Platform. When it came to the final release, the name was changed to the SpringSource dm Server, and the SpringSource Application Platform s scope was extended to include a set of SpringSource tools, frameworks, and servers, which includes the dm Server as a core component. When I was trying out the dm Server, I could see already that it was to bring an evolution to enterprise Java application development. The dm Server is built on top of OSGi, a technology specially designed for building dynamic and modular systems in Java. OSGi brings many benefits to Java developers: first, it allows you to divide a system into multiple modules, each of which can be installed, uninstalled, updated, started, and stopped independently; second, it allows different versions of a module to be deployed at the same time so that different applications can choose a version to import at runtime."
