POJOs In Action

After yesterday’s rant about the low quality in computer literature today, I felt the need to reply to myself.

One of the books I have been reading lately actually is a book that makes you think and challenge the way you work (if you are working with enterprise Java application development).

The book I am talking about is POJOs in Action by Chris Richardson, a book with a lot of depth and many dimensions.

Chris is standing on the shoulders of giants, and is basing a lot of his discussion on two recent classics in computer literature: Patterns Of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler and Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans. POJOs In Action can be seen as a natural practical follow-up to these books.

Chris has a very pragmatic and relaxed (non-hyped) view on things and has a many interesting discussions and examples that comes from his experience in the field.

It is a practical book, which discusses, through code samples (which all are test-driven) based on both various standards as well as open source frameworks, not only patterns, design and high-level concepts, but the process of getting them to work and become a natural part in your daily work.

Highly recommended.