SourceBeat Publishing Announces Release of 'The AppFuse Primer', the First Published Book on Popular Open Source Framework

The AppFuse Primer is now available from the SourceBeat catalog via their website at www.sourcebeat.com.

Denver, CO (PRWEB) March 18, 2008 -- SourceBeat Publishing (www.sourcebeat.com) today announces the release The AppFuse Primer, a fundamentals guide to the ins and outs of the AppFuse project (www.appfuse.org), the Java EE open source web application framework. The book is written by David Whitehurst, a senior Java technologist and AppFuse Committer.

"I am very excited to see a book on the market for AppFuse," said AppFuse creator and Lead Committer Matt Raible. "My goal when creating the project was to simplify the Java web application creation process, and in the five years since its first release AppFuse has added best-in-breed open source technologies to really assist developers in creating a solid framework for their web applications. This book should help people get up to speed very quickly."

The AppFuse Primer is available on the SourceBeat website for $21.95, as a real-time downloadable PDF from http://sourcebeat.com/books/appfuse.html. It will also be available in print format from www.lulu.com/sourcebeat. More information about The AppFuse Primer can be found on David Whitehurst's blog at http://jroller.com/page/dlwhitehurst.

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