Use Java CAPS to Streamline IT Services and Leverage Legacy Applications   Design patterns are a useful tool for streamlining enterprise integration and Web development projects: the mission-critical projects that directly impact your competitiveness. Enterprise Integration Patterns by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf (Addison-Wesley, 2004) described many of the most useful patterns for enterprise developers. Until recently, however, implementing the patterns in that classic reference required the extensive use of raw Java code. Now there’s a better alternative: Using Sun’s Java Composite Application Suite (Java CAPS), architects and developers can implement enterprise integration patterns succinctly, elegantly, and completely.  In  Java™ CAPS Basics , Sun’s own Java CAPS experts show how to quickly put these new tools and technologies to work in your real-world enterprise application integration projects. After reviewing the challenges of enterprise integration, they introduce Java CAPS and show how it can simplify the development of today’s state-of-the-art “composite” applications. Next, they bridge the gap between abstract pattern languages and practical implementation details. You will learn essential Java CAPS concepts and methods in the context of the patterns you’ll actually use for real-world message and system management.  Coverage includes   Comparing approaches to enterprise application integration and finding ways to integrate non-invasively, with fewer changes and lower costs Mastering the core integration tools provided by Java CAPS: eGate, eInsight, eWays and JMS Using enterprise integration patterns to improve application reusability, scalability, resilience, security, and manageability Implementing patterns for message exchange, correlation, infrastructure, routing, construction, transformation, and endpoints Generating and using cryptographic objects such as X.509 Certificates, PKCS#12, and JKS Keystores Using advanced techniques such as solution partitioning and subprocess implementation, many of which are covered nowhere else Constructing two complete example solutions that bring together many of the patterns discussed and illustrated in this book  The companion CD contains detailed illustrations for most of the relevant patterns and two complete Java CAPS-based case studies (with solutions) that implement a number of the patterns discussed in the book. In addition, Part II contains a chapter on cryptographic objects used to configure security-related aspects of the suite. It also provides more than sixty detailed examples designed to illustrate the concepts and patterns presented in this book. Built with JCAPS eDesigner, these graphical, component-based examples can easily be used by business analysts and others with or without strong coding skills.

Java CAPS Basics: Implementing Common EAI Patterns

Computers & Technology

Walker, Andrew

Czapski, Michael

Krueger, Sebastian

Marry, Brendan

Sahai, Saurabh

Vaneris, Peter

Programming Languages

Prentice Hall PTR

In this far-reaching examination of environmental problems and politics in northern Thailand, Tim Forsyth and Andrew Walker analyze deforestation, water supply, soil erosion, use of agrochemicals, and biodiversity in order to challenge popularly held notions of environmental crisis. They argue that such crises have been used to support political objectives of state expansion and control in the uplands. They have also been used to justify the alternative directions advocated by an array of NGOs. In official and alternative discourses of economic development, the peoples living in Thailand's hill country are typically cast as either guardians or destroyers of forest resources, often depending on their ethnicity. Political and historical factors have created a simplistic, misleading, and often scientifically inaccurate environmental narrative: Hmong farmers, for example, are thought to exhibit environmentally destructive practices, whereas the Karen are seen as linked to and protective of their ancestral home. Forsyth and Walker reveal a much more complex relationship of hill farmers to the land, to other ethnic groups, and to the state. They conclude that current explanations fail to address the real causes of environmental problems and unnecessarily restrict the livelihoods of local people. The authors' critical assessment of simplistic environmental narratives, as well as their suggestions for finding solutions, will be valuable in international policy discussions about environmental issues in rapidly developing countries. Moreover, their redefinition of northern Thailand's environmental problems, and their analysis of how political influences have reinforced inappropriate policies, demonstrate new ways of analyzing how environmental science and knowledge are important arenas for political control. This book makes valuable contributions to Thai studies and more generally to the fields of environmental science, ecology, geography, anthropology, and political science, as well as to policy making and resource management in the developing world.

Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers: The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Northern Thailand (Culture, Place, and Nature)

Business & Money

Forsyth, Tim

Economics

University of Washington Press

Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers: The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Northern Thailand

When a populist movement elected Thaksin Shinawatra as prime minister of Thailand in 2001, many of the country's urban elite dismissed the outcome as just another symptom of rural corruption, a traditional patronage system dominated by local strongmen pressuring their neighbors through political bullying and vote-buying. In Thailand's Political Peasants, however, Andrew Walker argues that the emergence of an entirely new socioeconomic dynamic has dramatically changed the relations of Thai peasants with the state, making them a political force to be reckoned with. Whereas their ancestors focused on subsistence, this generation of middle-income peasants seeks productive relationships with sources of state power, produces cash crops, and derives additional income through non-agricultural work. In the increasingly decentralized, disaggregated country, rural villagers and farmers have themselves become entrepreneurs and agents of the state at the local level, while the state has changed from an extractor of taxes to a supplier of subsidies and a patron of development projects. Thailand's Political Peasants provides an original, provocative analysis that encourages an ethnographic rethinking of rural politics in rapidly developing countries. Drawing on six years of fieldwork in Ban Tiam, a rural village in northern Thailand, Walker shows how analyses of peasant politics that focus primarily on rebellion, resistance, and evasion are becoming less useful for understanding emergent forms of political society.

Thailand’s Political Peasants: Power in the Modern Rural Economy (New Perspectives in SE Asian Studies)

University of Wisconsin Press

Enemy Territory: The Christian Struggle for the Modern World

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Zondervan

A Christian for All Christians: Essays in Honour of C. S. Lewis

A Christian for All Christians : Essays in Honour of C. S. Lewis

PATRICK, JAMES

Hodder&Stoughton

This book provides a new approach to the study of South-East Asia's northern borderlands. Based on extensive travel in the upper-Mekong hinterland, it provides a fascinating account of the lives of the transport operators, traders, entrepreneurs and government officials who are contributing to the contemporary revival in upper-Mekong cross-border connections. This ethnographic study is set against an intriguing background of war, revolution and reform, providing one of the most detailed histories of the upper-Mekong borderlands ever written. Contemporary developments in the upper-Mekong region are often interpreted in terms of the emergence of a trans-border Economic Quadrangle, characterised by liberalisation, integration and cooperation. The book seeks to go beyond this promotional rhetoric and explore the ambiguities and contradictions in the Quadrangle's development. While some see the Economic Quadrangle's liberalisation as signalling the demise of state power in the borderlands, this study argues that it is providing new incentives and opportunities for collaborative regulation.

The Legend of the Golden Boat: Regulation, Trade and Traders in the Borderlands of Laos, Thailand, Burma and China (Anthropology of Asia)

Routledge

Fishing provides kids with easy-to-follow tips on how to improve their cast, bait a hook, and choose the right lure. Engaging instruction and insightful tips from professionals make this book a must-have for young fishers. Lessons from beginner to advanced.

How to Improve at Fishing (How to Improve At. . ., 7)

Children's Books

Sports & Outdoors

Crabtree Pub Co

/Dr. Andrew Walker and Dr. James Patrick, editors /read by Robi.

A Christian for All Christians: Essays in Honor of C.S. Lewis

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Blackstone Pub

This unique, richly illustrated, full-color book uses the concept of the traditional Stations of the Cross to express the joy of the resurrection using scripture, reflection, poetry, prayer and illustration. Some of the writers included are Maya Angelou, G.K. Chesterton, Dag Hammarskjold and Soren Kierkegaard. The variety of illustrations leads readers into an experience of the profound and transforming joy found in the risen Lord. The meditations help to redress the balance between Lent and Easter and to recapture for the Church something of the energy and grace experienced by the apostles.

Journey into Joy: Stations of the Resurrection

Paulist Press

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