http://sun.systemnews.com Publications http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/127/4/bk/20613 Rob Snevely's 224-page book, "Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology," is available as a free PDF download or it can be purchased as a printed book at a 30% savings from the Sun Microsystems Press Bookstore. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/3/bk/20440 Bernard Golden has done us all a favor, or at least those of us hesitant to get our feet wet with the whole virtualization process, having written a 50-page treatment of his longer book "Virtualization for Dummies." You can register with Sun and AMD, who sponsor this offering, to receive your copy of the summary. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/2/bk/20374 Open-source operating systems, virtual machines, and clustered computing are among the leading fields of operating systems and networking that are rapidly changing. With substantial revisions and organizational changes, Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne’s Operating System Concepts, Eighth Edition remains as current and relevant as ever, helping you master the fundamental concepts of operating systems while preparing yourself for today’s emerging developments. Beyond the basics, the Eight Edition sports substantive revisions and organizational changes that clue you in to such cutting-edge developments as open-source operating systems, multi-core processors, clustered computers, virtual machines, transactional memory, NUMA, Solaris 10 memory management, Sun’s ZFS file system, and more. New to this edition is the use of a simulator to dynamically demonstrate several operating system topics. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/2/bk/20377 Intellectual Property and Open Source, written by Van Lindberg, is for readers who want to understand how the law views intellectual property rights in code and other content. As an attorney and a programmer, Lindberg provides a clear look at these issues from a developer's point of view, along with practical advice for situations likely to be encountered including patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and open source licenses. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/1/bk/20376 The text editor is held sacred by the users of Unix and Linux. Vi is the usual editor of choice, as it has been for almost 30 years, and it is now growing popularity with the Windows community. There is a guide to vi that has been keeping up with the times. The 7th edition of "Learning the Vi And Vim Editors" by O’Reilly will teach text editing basics and other tips that many people might find quite useful http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/3/bk/20263 "Dojo: The Definitive Guide" by Matthew A. Russell is billed as the most thorough overview of the Dojo toolkit available. Dojo itself is commonly thought of as industrial-strength JavaScript toolkit that enables one to optimally leverage JavaScript and "...write a web application with significantly less code in significantly less time than they would otherwise take," according to Russell. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/124/3/bk/19986 Russell J. T. Dyer has come out with a second edition of his book "MySQL in a Nutshell." The book includes changes and improvements made to MySQL since Sun purchased MySQL AB. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/124/3/bk/19857 Thinking about taking the J2EE 1.5 Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD) exam? You might want to get hold of a copy of "Head First Servlets & JSP, Second Edition," from O'Reilly. Word is that the new exam -- three hours and 69 questions in length -- is considerably tougher than the previous version. The US$49.99 guide, written by Bryan Basham, Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates, all members of the SCWCD development team, is said to be the best route to attaining this prized certification. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/100/1/bk/16455 Author Bill Burke (also chief architect of JBoss) has taken over the book series on Enterprise JavaBeansTM (EJBTM) from author Richard Monson-Haefel (but who also contributed to the latest version of the book). The new book is the fifth edition of "Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0" from O'Reilly. It covers what's new to the EJB specification, especially entity beans. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/100/1/bk/16476 The second edition of "Java I/O" by Elliotte Rusty Harold "tells you all you need to know about the four main categories of streams and uncovers less-known features to help make your I/O operations more efficient." This edition has been updated for Java 5.0 APIs.