Advanced Java Development for Enterprise Applications [Paperback]

Cliff Berg (Author), Clifford J. Berg (Author)

Book Description

Series: Java | Publication Date: June 24, 1998

Anyone trying to build enterprise-wide Java applications faces extraordinary challenges -- with little or no guidance. Until now. Advanced Java Development for the Enterprise is the first systematic guide to all the issues of enterprise development with Java -- from managing legacy code to building CORBA-based distributed applications, and beyond. This book shows you how to solve real problems in the real-life, complex world of mixed technologies, firewalls, multinational deployment and legacy data sources. It shows how to implement persistent data models today, using real products; how to deploy push-based and browser-based technologies; how to use CORBA, Java Beans and other distributed object technologies; how to implement secure communications, and much more. In a nutshell, this book covers virtually every topic the large-scale Java application developer needs to know about.

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From the Back Cover

The first end-to-end, practical guide for building enterprise-wide Java applications!

Advanced Java Development for the Enterprise is the first systematic guide to all the key issues of enterprise development with Java, from managing legacy code to building distributed applications.

Leading Java developer Clifford J. Berg shows how to deliver results with Java in the "real world" of heterogeneous technologies, multinational deployments, and pre-existing data sources. His lifecycle solutions address the critical problems of development in an era of breakneck change, and the unique challenges that arise in enterprise Java projects.

Coverage includes:

• Integrating pre-existing C and C++ code: proven techniques
• Leveraging distributed objects with CORBA, Java Beans and Enterprise Beans
• Maximizing security through secure remote object invocation and other approaches
• Implementing persistent data models
• Deploying browser-based and push-based technologies
• Improving development methodologies to minimize risk and maximize payoff

If you're building enterprise-scale applications with Java, you've been facing extraordinary challenges, with little or no guidance. Until now. With Advanced Java Development for the Enterprise, you'll have a world-class enterprise Java expert at your side, from planning through deployment-and beyond.

You also get a CD-ROM packed with practical source code for enterprise applications, plus great trialware.

It's all here: expert help and world-class products for building enterprise-scale Java applications!

About the Author

Clifford J. Berg is Vice President of Technology for Digital Focus in Fairfax, VA. He is author of the extremely popular Java Q&A column in Dr. Dobbs Journal.

Product Details

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (June 24, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130804614
• ISBN-13: 978-0130804617
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,277,755 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good guide on enterprise java, November 5, 1998

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This review is from: Advanced Java Development for Enterprise Applications (Paperback)

Solid, reasonably sized and organized guide on java applications for enterprise. Was helpful on general orientation and a number of lookups.

Don't think of it as of the last book you'll need to buy. Just like a map of MA won't be of much help to find your way thru downtown Boston, it should be supplemented later by more detailed information.

However, you'll find Boston very quickly.

On the minus side - author is not always precise in code samples. Not a big deal, though.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Tries to be too many books at once, July 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Advanced Java Development for Enterprise Applications (Paperback)

A book that wants to cover all aspects of the software life cycle and every java api and internet protocol and databases and transactions and so on it goes. The author should have narrowed his list of things to talk about down from 100 or more to just a few and then focused on those. A classic authoring mistake.

There are a few (small) good expositions (security and RMI for example) but these form no more than a few discussion papers and they carry the baggage of the rest of this weighty tome.

Those with expertise in aspects of the life cycle will find much to disagree with as would those with expertise in locking and concurrency control for database applications; and so on it goes.

The breadth of the content thus makes it impossible to put the content within the context of satisfying the book's title. The reader is left with much to do to piece together the sections on those apis and technologies they are using for their own "advanced enterprise application! development".

A disappointing and fatally flawed book.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good overall resource., August 11, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Advanced Java Development for Enterprise Applications (Paperback)

I thought that this book was a good source of information on certain aspects of Java which generally aren't well documented or well understood. Specifically, the sections on Enterprise Java Beans and Security were of the most value to me.

Overall, this book seems to me to be a good reference handbook for those folks who are relatively new to Java but are working on middle to large-size business systems that use Java. In that regard, the book succeeds quite well. However, if you're looking for information geared to building simple applications this book is overkill.