All sublists are ordered according to our priority. Of course your priorities might be different as certain topics might be more important to you than to us.

We would recommend to have the following books at hand during the lab.

• Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (2nd Edition) (Kent Beck, Cynthia Andres)
• JBoss Seam: Simplicity and Power Beyond Java EE (Michael J. Yuan, Thomas Heute)
• Java Persistence with Hibernate (Christian Bauer, Gavin King)
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Martin Fowler)
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides - “Gang of Four”)
• Test Driven Development: By Example (Kent Beck)
• Unit Testing in Java: How Tests Drive the Code (Johannes Link) (The book was first published in German.)

The following online documentation is of similar importance.

• JBoos Seam (Online documentation)
• JBoss Seam Wiki page (with further docs, howtos, tips, links, books, articles, etc.)
• TestNG (Online documentation)
• Internal Wiki page about the setup of Seam, the database system, and the JBoss Application Server
• http://www.extremeprogramming.org

The following books can be helpful to deepen the understanding of the practices used during the lab. Once in a while they might be already helpful during the lab, but they are definitely not required. In case you decide to continue to use the practice after the lab, we would recommend to get them because the solve problems on the advanced level.

• Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Michael Feathers)
• Fit for Developing Software: Framework for Integrated Tests (Rick Mugridge, Ward Cunningham)
• Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Eric Evans)
• Head First Design Patterns (Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra)
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Andrew Hunt, David Thomas)
• Object-Oriented Metrics in Practice: Using Software Metrics to Characterize, Evaluate, and Improve the Design of Object-Oriented Systems (Michele Lanza, Radu Marinescu)
• Refactoring to Patterns (Joshua Kerievsky)

If you want to get an broader overview about Agile Software Development, create your own variation of the process or want to start research about Agile Software Development, we recommend the following literature. This is not required for the lab. Of course, if you want to know when, how, or why agility is possible you might want to pick one.

• Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game (2nd Edition) (Alistair Cockburn)
• The Toyota Way Fieldbook (Jeffrey Liker, David Meier)
• Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers (Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck)
• Extreme Programming Installed (Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, Chet Hendrickson, Ronald E. Jeffries)
• Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production (Taiichi Ohno)
• Agile Software Development in the Large: Diving Into the Deep (Jutta Eckstein)
• Large-Scale Agile Software Development (Ron Crocker) Not published yet.
• http://www.agilemanifesto.org/, http://pmdoi.org/

The following books are also recommended by JBoss.

• Beginning JBoss Seam: From Novice to Professional (Joseph Faisal Nusairat)
• Practical JBoss Seam Projects (Jim Farley)