<DIV><p><b>Summary</b></p><p><i>Clojure in Action</i> is a hands-on tutorial for the working programmer who has written code in a language like Java or Ruby, but has no prior experience with Lisp. It teaches Clojure from the basics to advanced topics using practical, real-world application examples. Blow through the theory and dive into practical matters like unit-testing and environment set-up, all the way through building a scalable web-application using domain-specific languages, Hadoop, HBase, and RabbitMQ.</p> <b>About the Technology</b><p>Clojure is a modern Lisp for the JVM, and it has the strengths you'd expect: first-class functions, macros, support for functional programming, and a Lisp-like, clean programming style.</p> <b>About this Book</b><p><i>Clojure in Action</i> is a practical guide focused on applying Clojure to practical programming challenges. You'll start with a language tutorial written for readers who already know OOP. Then, you'll dive into the use cases where Clojure really shines: state management, safe concurrency and multicore programming, first-class code generation, and Java interop. In each chapter, you'll first explore the unique characteristics of a problem area and then discover how to tackle them using Clojure. Along the way, you'll explore practical matters like architecture, unit testing, and set-up as you build a scalable web application that includes custom DSLs, Hadoop, HBase, and RabbitMQ.</p> <b>What's Inside</b><ul><li>A fast-paced Clojure tutorial</li> <li>Creating web services with Clojure</li> <li>Scaling through messaging</li> <li>Creating DSLs with Clojure's macro system</li> <li>Test-driven development with Clojure</li> <li>Distributed programming with Clojure and more</li></ul><p>This book assumes you're familiar with an OO language like Java, C#, or C++, but requires no background in Lisp or Clojure itself.</p><p>==================================</p> <b>Table of Contents</b><ol><h5>PART 1 GETTING STARTED</h5> <li>Introduction to Clojure</li> <li>A whirlwind tour</li> <li>Building blocks of Clojure</li> <li>Polymorphism with multimethods</li> <li>Clojure and Java interop</li> <li>State and the concurrent world</li> <li>Evolving Clojure through macros</li> <h5>PART 2 GETTING REAL </h5> <li>Test-driven development and more</li> <li>Data storage with Clojure</li> <li>Clojure and the web</li> <li>Scaling through messaging</li> <li>Data processing with Clojure</li> <li>More on functional programming</li> <li>Protocols, records, and type</li> <li>More macros and DSLs</li></ol></div>