Joel Murach & Michael Urban show you how to use JSPs and servlets to build secure, well-structured web applications that adhere to the MVC pattern. After a 6-chapter crash course that covers all the basics, they move on to working with databases (using JDBC and JPA), JavaMail, security features, listeners, filters, and introduce you to JSF and a Music Store website that ties everything together.

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Apache Hadoop YARN provides resource management at data center scale and easier ways to create distributed applications that process petabytes of data. Hadoop technical leaders show you how to develop new applications and adapt existing code to fully leverage these revolutionary advances that are driving the Big Data revolution.

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Learn to make iOS games using Apple's 2D game framework: Sprite Kit. Through a series of mini-games and challenges, go from beginner to advanced and learn everything you need to make your own game! Covers sprites, scenes and transitions, physics through to multiplayer support and Apple TV display using AirPlay.

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XPages has revolutionized Notes/Domino application development. This new edition of a guide written by three  members of the IBM XPages team has been updated to reflect improvements, through IBM Notes/Domino 9.0.1 and beyond. Covers the latest XPages mobile library; the new Domino Designer Server-Side JavaScript debugger; and improvements to integrated technologies such as Dojo and CKEditor.

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Written by members of the Java EE documentation team at Oracle, this task-oriented, example-driven guide to developing enterprise applications provides new and intermediate Java programmers with a deep understanding of the Java EE 7 platform. This 5th edition also covers the latest versions of NetBeans IDE and GlassFish Server Open Source Edition.

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Grasp the fundamentals of web application development by building a simple database-backed app from scratch, using HTML, JavaScript, and other open source tools. In this practical guide, Semmy Purewal  shows inexperienced web app developers how to create a user interface, write a server, build client-server communication, and use a cloud-based service to deploy the application through hands-on tutorials.

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In just 24 sessions of one hour each, learn how to build powerful applications for: the iPhone and iPad! Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master every skill and technology you need, from setting up your iOS development environment to building great user interfaces, sensing motion to writing multi-tasking applications. In each lesson John Ray builds on what you’ve already learned,

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Building distributed applications is difficult enough without having to coordinate the actions that make them work. In this practical guide Flavio Junqueira and Benjamin Reed show how Apache ZooKeeper helps you manage distributed systems, so you can focus mainly on application logic.They provide good practices to give you a head start, and point out caveats to watch for along the way.

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Use Excel 2013's statistical tools to transform your data into knowledge Conrad Carlberg shows how to use Excel 2013 to perform core statistical tasks. Using real-world examples, Carlberg helps you choose the right technique for each problem and get the most out of Excel's statistical features, including recently introduced consistency functions.

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Scott Isaacs and Kyle Burns introduce you to the Windows 8 modern app design paradigm to build rich, immersive applications designed to run on the many devices powered by Windows 8 using a real-world sample application that you develop over the course of the book.

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Julitta Korol  introduces programming concepts via numerous multi-step, illustrated, hands-on exercises. More advanced topics are introduced via custom projects. From recording and editing a macro and writing VBA code to working with XML documents and using classic ASP to access and display data on the Web, this book takes you on a programming journey that will change the way you work with Excel.

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As an experienced JavaScript developer moving to server-side programming, you need to implement classic data structures and algorithms associated with conventional object-oriented languages like C# and Java. In this practical guide, Michael McMillan shows you how to work hands-on with a variety of storage mechanisms—including linked lists, stacks, queues, and graphs.

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