Programming Groovy

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About Groovy programming books, usually the “X in Action” is quite good but on the topic of Groovy I have to say that I prefer the book “Programming Groovy” from the pragmatic programmers series. We have both in the company but I experience myself always prefering this one over the Manning book, even though the much appreciated Dirk Koenig is one of the authors of that one.

The pragmatic programming book simply is very nicely layouted, clear structure, good examples and still covers all topics including MOP of basic Groovy programming. My recommendation!

Book: Open-Source ESBs in Action

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Recently I have bought the book “Open-Source ESBs in Action” from Rademakers, Dirksen from Manning. It has a foreword from Guillaume Nodet, the famous Servicemix architect, which we know at blue elephant, so it has been a must-buy after it finally is the first book on Servicemix that there is. The book focuses on Mule and Servicemix, a pitty that OpenESB isn’t covered as a alternative approach, but well.

So far, the book is well-structured, providing a good insight also in side-topics and offers a lot of examples also with concrete configuration sniplets etc. I can recommend it.

The book web site http://www.esbinaction.com/ contains links, updates, articles and presentations on the topic.