John Ferguson Smart

Biography

John is a freelance consultant specializing in Enterprise Java, Web Development, and Open Source technologies, currently based in Wellington, New Zealand. Well known in the Java community for his many published articles, John helps organizations optimize their Java development processes and infrastructures and provides training and mentoring in open source technologies, SDLC tools, and agile development processes. John is principal consultant at Wakaleo Consulting, a company that provides consulting, training and mentoring services in Enterprise Java and Agile Development.

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Java Power Tools
by John Ferguson Smart
April 2008
$59.99 USD

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An Introduction to Hibernate 3 Annotations
Publish Date: Feb. 8, 2007Hibernate is just about the defacto standard for Java database persistence. With Hibernate 3, it has become even easier to specify how your Java objects are stored in a database. In this article, John Smart shows how Java 5 annotations are used by Hibernate to simplify your code and make persisting your data even easier. Profiling Your Applications with Eclipse Callisto
Publish Date: Aug. 16, 2006Callisto, a bundle of optional plugins for Eclipse, now comes with a profiling tool called the Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP). TPTP includes testing, tracing, performance monitoring, profiling, and static-code analysis tools. John Ferguson Smart offers this guided tour of how to use TPTP to speed up your apps. The Mustang Meets the Rhino: Scripting in Java 6
Publish Date: Apr. 26, 2006Among Java SE 6's key features is the ability to mix scripting languages into Java code, thanks to the implementation of the JSR-223 spec. In this article, John Ferguson Smart takes a look at the spec and what it means for Java, and shows how to use Java 6's integrated Rhino implementation to call JavaScript from Java...and vice versa. Hibernate Class Generation Using hbm2java
Publish Date: Dec. 14, 2005Hibernate uses mapping files to express the mapping of Java classes to database tables. In a complex project, keeping mappings in sync with your Java code can be burdensome and error-prone. Fortunately, the hbm2java tool can automate this by generating POJO classes from the mapping files. John Ferguson Smart shows how to use hbm2java with Ant and Maven, and how to customize the behavior of the generated classes. Test-Driven Development Using StrutsTestCase
Publish Date: Oct. 26, 2005JUnit and DbUnit can help test your web application, but they're not ideal for testing Struts Actions. Fortunately, the StrutsTestCase framework exists to help you close this gap in your testing coverage. John Ferguson Smart looks at how it works and what it can do for you.

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