Overview

developerWorks books, an imprint of IBM Press, offers a collection of developer-related print books that serve as companion resources to information found on the developerWorks web site. Books in this series point to developerWorks resources on the web to support and strengthen the reading experience. Articles, tutorials, forums, software, and other materials fill the developerWorks technical library.

developerWorks resources and developerWorks books, when used together, offer you the ability to hone your understanding and sharpen your technical knowledge and skills.

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Application Architecture for WebSphere: A Practical Approach to Building WebSphere Applications (ISBN: 0137129262) Joey Bernal: One of IBM’s leading WebSphere and WebSphere Portal architects offers a hands-on, best-practice guide to every facet of defining, planning, and implementing WebSphere application architectures. Joey Bernal shows working architects and teams how to define layered architectural standards that can be used across the entire organization, improving application quality without compromising flexibility.

Implementing IBM Rational® ClearQuest (ISBN: 0321-3348-68) brings together all you need to integrate Rational® ClearQuest® into an overarching change-management system that works. Drawing on decades of experience, the authors present a detailed, easyto-use roadmap for each step of ClearQuest deployment—from evaluating business cases through planning, design, and implementation. You will find the industry's clearest, most useful explanations of ClearQuest technology here, along with real-world examples, best practices, diagrams, and actionable steps.

Lotus Notes Developer's Toolbox: Tips for Rapid and Successful Deployment (ISBN: 0132214482) Mark Eliott. This book helps you streamline and improve every phase of Notes development. Leading IBM Lotus Notes® developer Mark Elliott systematically identifies solutions for the key challenges Notes developers face, offering powerful advice drawn from his extensive enterprise experience. This book presents best practices and step-by-step case studies for building the five most common types of Notes applications: collaboration, calendar, workflow, reference library, and Web site. Lotus Notes Developer's Toolbox is for Notes developers at all levels of experience, using recent versions from V5.0 through V7.0, and beyond. Like all IBM developerWorks Series books, it is fully integrated with comprehensive Web resources, including working examples of each project, enhanced versions that go beyond the book, sample graphics, and tools for addressing real-world business scenarios.

Persistence in the Enterprise: A Guide to Persistence Technologies (ISBN: 0131587560) Roland Barcia, Geoffrey Hambrick, Kyle Brown, Robert Peterson, Kulvir Singh Bhogal. Persistence in the enterprise is a unique, up-to-date, and objective guide to building the persistence layers of enterprise applications. Drawing on their extensive experience, five leading IBM Web development experts carefully review the issues and trade offs associated with persistence in large-scale, business-critical applications.

Service-Oriented Architecture Compass: Business Value, Planning, and Enterprise Roadmap (ISBN: 0131870025) Norbert Bieberstein; Marc Fiammante; Sanjay Bose; Keith Jones; Rawn Shah. A resource for planning, implementing, and managing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), with an emphasis on how SOA drives business value and enables IT processes to align with business needs and objectives.

Visual Modeling with IBM Rational Software Architect and UML (ISBN: 0321238087) Jim Palistrant; Terry Quatrani. Two application design experts from IBM give you the definitive, start-to-finish guide to Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2-based visual modeling with Rational Software Architect. You'll learn hands-on, using a simplified case study that's already helped thousands of professional software engineers to master analysis, design, and implementation using IBM Rational technologies.

WebSphere Business Integration Primer (ISBN: 013224831X) thoroughly explains Service Component Architecture (SCA), basic business processes, and complex long-running business flows, and guides you to choose the right process integration architecture for your requirements.