Rapid j2ee development

Today I bought myself a new book: Rapid J2EE development – ‘An adaptive foundation for enterprise applications’ by Alan Monnox.

The book covers iterative development, model-driven architecture (MDA), code generation tools, aspect-oriented programming (AOP), test-driven development and much more!

Most of the stuff discussed isn’t new to me, but the amazon reader reviews mentioned:

Think of this as a well thought out and documented series of brainstorms on faster development approaches.
Initially I discounted some of the approaches (UML, AOP). As I read the book, I found that it did make me rethink some of the assumptions that I’ve built up over the years. And Monnox gives enough examples to whet my appetite to experiment some more.

The text is fairly readable and many sections might be useful to give to a manager as a way of getting support to try out a new approach.

sounded more useful than yet another book on yet another framework/technology/languageI’ll keep you posted if I discover new ‘insights’!