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Which Java web framework are you using for your current project? Spring MVC, JSF, Grails or something else? Do you have the best book for your favorite framework? To help you find the right book you need, we compile a list of the latest and most popular books covering the top Java web frameworks to date (2014). This list includes the following titles:

Spring MVC: Beginner's Guide
Mastering JavaServer Faces 2.2
Learning Vaadin 7, Second Edition
GWT in Action
Grails in Action
Play for Java: Covers Play 2
Instant Apache Wicket 6
Struts 2 for Beginners, 3rd Edition

1. Spring MVC: Beginner's Guide

Author: Amuthan G

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Published Date: June 25, 2014

Paperback: 347 pages

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Content Coverage:

Chapter 1: Configuring a Spring Development Environment
Chapter 2: Spring MVC Architecture - Architecting Your Web Store
Chapter 3: Control Your Store with Controllers
Chapter 4: Working with Spring Tag Libraries
Chapter 5: Working with View Resolvers
Chapter 6: Intercept Your Store with Interceptor
Chapter 7: Validate Your Products with a Validator
Chapter 8: Give REST to Your Application with Ajax
Chapter 9: Apache Tiles and Spring Web Flow in Action
Chapter 10: Testing Your Application
Appendix A: Using the Gradle Build Tool

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2. Mastering JavaServer Faces 2.2

Author: Anghel Leonard

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Published Date: June 25, 2014

Paperback: 501 pages

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Content Coverage:

Chapter 1: Dynamic Access to JSF Application Data through Expression Language (EL 3.0)
Chapter 2: Communication in JSF
Chapter 3: JSF Scopes - Lifespan and Use in Managed Beans Communication
Chapter 4: JSF Configurations Using XML Files and Annotations - Part 1
Chapter 5: JSF Configurations Using XML Files and Annotations - Part 2
Chapter 6: Working with Tabular Data
Chapter 7: JSF and AJAX
Chapter 8: JSF 2.2 - HTML and Upload
Chapter 9: JSF State Management
Chapter 10: JSF Custom Components
Chapter 11: JSF 2.2 Resource Library Contracts - Themes
Chapter 12: Facelets Templating
Appendix: The JSF Life Cycle

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3. Learning Vaadin 7, Second Edition

Author: Nicolas Frankel

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Published Date: September 12, 2013

Paperback: 436 pages

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Content Coverage:

Chapter 1: Vaadin and its Context
- Rich Applications
- Why Vaadin?
Chapter 2: Environment Setup
- Vaadin in Eclipse
- Vaadin in IntelliJ IDEA
- Vaadin in other IDEs
Chapter 3: Hello Vaadin!
- Understanding Vadin
- Deploying a Vaadin application
- Using Vaadin applications
- Behind the surface
Chapter 4: Components and Layouts
- Thinking in components
- Laying out the components
- Bringing it all together
Chapter 5: Event Listener Model
- Event-driven model
- Event model in Vaadin
Chapter 6: Containers and Related Components
- Data binding
- Data in Vaadin
Chapter 7: Core Advanced Features
- Accessing the JavaEE API
- Navigation API
- Embedding Vaadin
- Real-world error handling
- SQL container
- Server push
Chapter 8: Featured Add-ons
- Vaadin add-ons directory
- Noteworthy add-ons: Clara, JPA Container, CDI Utils
Chapter 9: Creating and Extending Components and Widgets
- Client-side extensions
- Shared state
- Server RPC
- GWT widget wrapping
- Javascript wrapping
Chapter 10: Enterprise Integration
- Build Tools
- Portals
- OSGi
- Cloud

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4. GWT in Action

Author: Adam Tacy, Robert Hanson, Jason Essington, Anna Tokke

Publisher: Manning Publications

Published Date: February 10, 2013

Paperback: 680 pages

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Content Coverage:

Part 1: Basics
- GWT 3
- Building a GWT application: saying “Hello world”
- Building a GWT application: enhancing “Hello world”
Part 2: Next Steps

- Creating your own widgets
- Using client bundles
- Interface design with UiBinder
- Communicating with GWT-RPC
- Using RequestFactory
- The Editor framework
- Data presentation (cell) widgets
- Using JSNI - Javascript Native Interface
- Classic Ajax and HTML forms
- Internationalization, Localization, and accessibility
Part 3: Advanced
- Advanced event handling and event buses
- Building MVP-based applications
- Dependency Injection
- Deferred binding
- Generators
- Metrics and code splitting

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5. Grails in Action

Author: Peter Ledbrook, Glen Smith

Publisher: Manning Publications

Published Date: July 24, 2014

Paperback: 576 pages

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Content Coverage:

Part 1: Introducing Grails
- Grails in a hurry
- The Groovy essentials
Part 2: Core Grails
- Modeling the domain
- Creating the Initial UI
- Retrieving the data you need
- Controlling application flow
- Services and data binding
- Developing tasty forms, views and layouts
Part 3: Everyday Grails
- Building reliable applications
- Using plugins: just add water
- Protecting your application
- Exposing your app to other programs
- Single-page web applications (and other UI stuff)
- Understanding Spring and transactions
Part 4: Advanced Grails
- Understanding events, messaging and scheduling
- NoSQL and Grails
- Beyond compile, test and run
- Grails in the cloud
- Advanced GORM kung fu
- Developing plugins

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6. Play for Java: Covers Play 2

Author: Nicolas Leroux, Sietse de Kaper

Publisher: Manning Publications

Published Date: March 31, 2014

Paperback: 320 pages

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Content Coverage:

Part 1: Introduction and First Steps
- An introduction to Play
- The parts of an application
- A basic CRUD application
Part 2: Core Functionality

- An enterprise-app, Play-style
- Controllers - handling HTTP requests
- Handling user input
- Model and persistence
- Producing output with view templates
Part 3: Advanced Topics
- Asynchronous data
- Security
- Modules and deployment
- Testing your application

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7. Instant Apache Wicket 6

Author: João Sávio Ceregatti Longo, Felipe Fedel Pinto

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Published Date: August 26, 2013

Paperback: 54 pages

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Content Coverage:

What is Apache Wicket?
Installation
Quick start - creating your first Wicket application
Top 4 features you need to know about Wicket
- Lifecycle
- Markup
- Models
- Behaviors
People and places you should get to know

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8. Struts 2 for Beginners, 3rd Edition

Author: Sharanam Shah, Vaishali Shah

Publisher: Arizona Business Alliance

Published Date: June 18, 2014

Paperback: 442 pages

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Content Coverage:

All About The Struts 2 Framework

Fundamentals Of Struts and Struts 2, Architecture of Struts 2, Struts 2 Framework Core Components

Setting Up The Development Environment

Installing And Setting Up NetBeans IDE, Installing And Setting Up Struts 2

Getting Started With Struts 2

Getting Started, Working With Actions, Building Views, Building Interceptors, OGNL And Value Stack, Validations, Using The Data Store, Integrating Hibernate With Struts2

Application Development Using Struts 2.0.x
Guide to Migrating from Struts 2.0.x to 2.1.x
Application Development Using Struts 2.1.x and Hibernate 3

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Nam Ha Minh is certified Java programmer (SCJP and SCWCD). He started programming with Java in the time of Java 1.4 and has been falling in love with Java since then. Make friend with him on Facebook and watch his Java videos you YouTube.

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