The Angular Mini-Book is a
guide to getting started with Angular. You'll learn how to develop a bare-bones application, test it, and
deploy it. Then you'll move on to adding Bootstrap, Angular Material, continuous integration, and authentication.
Spring Boot is a popular framework for building REST APIs. You'll learn how to integrate Angular with Spring Boot and use security best practices like HTTPS and a content security policy.
For book updates, follow @angular_book on Twitter.
The JHipster Mini-Book is a
guide to getting started with hip technologies today: Angular, Bootstrap, and Spring
Boot. All of these frameworks are wrapped up in an easy-to-use project called JHipster.
This book shows you how to build an app with JHipster, and guides you through the plethora of tools, techniques and options you can use. Furthermore, it explains the UI and API building blocks so you understand the underpinnings of your great application.
For book updates, follow @jhipster-book on Twitter.
If you've heard of iBATIS, but never had the time to look into it, there's a good intro article on ONJava.com: Object-Relational Mapping with SQLMaps. iBATIS continues to be my persistence framework-of-choice when Hibernate doesn't mesh with the database schema. Now if we could just get someone to write a Middlegen Plugin to generate POJOs and SQL Maps from database schemas. 
From the WebWork Mailing List, I learned that the Eclipse Plugin for WebWork has released its first version - and it looks pretty nice (demos). To install using Eclipse Update Manager, use http://eclipsework.sourceforge.net/install/site.xml.
