Dear Readers,
We are back here with the Christmas cum New Year (Jan’ 2008) issue of Java Jazz-up. The current edition is specially designed for the sprouting technocrats. This issue highlights the interesting Java technologies
especially for the beginners.

Though it was a hard job to simplify the complexities of the technologies like JBoss AS, Hibernate 3.0, Ant tool, struts 2, JSF and Design Patterns. Still our team has done a marvelous work in making it easy and simpler for the new programmers regime. This issue reflects our consistent attempts to avail the quality technological updates that enforce the readers to appreciate it a lot and be a part of its Readers Community.
Java News and Updates section provides the latest updates of the things happening around the globe making the readers aware of the java technological advancement. In this section, you will know the new features introduced in the existing tools, utilities, application servers, IDEs, along with the Java API updates.

The set of articles conferring technologies like Design patterns, JSF, Hibernate 3.0, Integrating various technologies like JSF, Spring, Hibernate together etc. are provided in such a manner that even a novice learns and implements the concepts in a very easy
manner.

We are providing it in a PDF format so that you can view and even download it as a whole and get its hard copy.

Please send us your feedback about this issue and participate in the Reader’s Forum with your problems, issues concerned with the topics you want us to include in our next issues.

Editor-in-Chief
Deepak Kumar
Java Jazz up