Java is moving into the enterprise -- fast! Companies aren't just talking about building Java-based e-commerce, messaging, networking, and database access applications -- they're doing it. The first edition of this book was a best-seller, helping thousands of developers with their first industrial-strength Java projects. This book offers even more. Completely updated to reflect Java 2, it delivers comprehensive lifecycle coverage that addresses every key issue faced by today's enterprise developer, from legacy code and mixed platform environments to security and internationalization. Clifford Berg reviews every Java-related enterprise development technique and technology you need to master. You'll find detailed new coverage of managing Java development projects; even more coverage of Enterprise JavaBeans; new JDBC2 database connectivity information, and a detailed look at Java 2's new security capabilities. Berg presents timely, on-target information on Java-based application servers, transaction management, and distributed computing protocols -- including JTS, JTA, RMI over IIOP, JNDI, and more. The CD-ROM contains extensive sample code and great tools for building enterprise Java applications.
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Preface
When this book first appeared in the summer of 1998, Enterprise JavaBeans? (EJB) was a new specification, and there were only a handful of products which implemented it. There also were only a few products which implemented the Java Servlet API. Server-side Java?-based applications in general were not in widespread use, primarily because of the lack of standards-based application server products and also because of questions about reliability and performance. Java 2 was also still a beta release.
The situation today has greatly changed. The Java programming language is in widespread use as a server application technology, and there are many mature products which support its use in that role. Most of these products support Java 2 and its associated Enterprise APIs. A great many major commerce web sites now employ servlet, EJB, or other Java technologies. The combination of EJB components and Java Web servlets has emerged as a powerful and scalable tool for building electronic commerce, supply chain, and many diverse kinds of applications. It is truly amazing that this has happened in so short a time.
The questions about performance and reliability have also largely gone away, as the Java platform has proven itself on these issues. In my company we have seen Java-based application servers scale to large numbers of users and transaction rates, and the Java platform's ability to handle large volumes will certainly continue to increase. One recent benchmark we participated in demonstrated Java-based application server cluster scalability on UNIX processors at the level of more than 500 EJB transactions per second over long periods of time without any apparent instability, with relatively flat response time behavior never exceeding 600 ms.
The Enterprise JavaBeans and servlet standards have also evolved. Experience from the first version of EJB has led to improvements and clarifications, and the current generation of EJB products now incorporate these improvements and the Java 2 platform as well. EJB has become a robust and universal middle tier for transaction-based applications. The servlet standard has expanded to include provisions for security interoperability and XML messaging and the addition of JavaServer? Pages (JSP). JSP provides a widely supported model for embedding dynamic content within web pages which leverages directly on Java technology and which is also more maintainable than earlier approaches to dynamic web content.
Perhaps the most significant development is the definition of the Enterprise Edition of the Java Platform (J2EE). This is an attempt to pull together the many Java technology specifications which are of special importance to enterprise applications, and also to specifically address issues such as interoperability, deployment, and security. This Book's Goals
This book explains Java-related technologies of particular importance to enterprise-wide software development. This book is not intended to be an in-depth treatment of all enterprise subjects. In fact, the topic of enterprise application development is so broad that it would require a library of books to cover each area. I therefore do not promise to even mention every topic that is relevant, much less cover each in detail. However, an advanced programmer needs to have a working knowledge of most aspects of a system in order to understand the entire system. For example, a developer working on a set of Enterprise JavaBeans does not need to understand all aspects of all security issues but does need to have a working knowledge of the security techniques used by the servers involved and the application. This book endeavors to provide a big picture, in a highly practical manner that is immediately useful to most developers, regardless of what their particular expertise is. I avoid most user-interface-related topics, because those are covered extensively in other books.
The readers of this book are expected to be advanced but with varied backgrounds. I assume that most know basic Java platform programming, but that some will know some aspects of the Java programming language and not others. I emphasize showing actual implementation details, with real products used in examples. The real-world examples give advanced developers an immediate feeling for what the code really looks like without a lot of explanatory text.
In this book I avoid Java technologies that depart from the 100% Pure Java standards. I believe that standards are extremely important for large applications and enterprise-wide development. The success of open technologies hinges on their acceptance as standards, so it is illogical to embrace nonstandard implementations. Furthermore, standardization is in the best interest of the vast majority of the companies now building Java-based products and solutions and of the customers that depend on them.Companion Web Site
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From the Back Cover
If you're building Java-based e-commerce, messaging, networking, or database applications, get the one book that gives you the battle-tested, real-world guidance you need! The first edition of this book has already helped thousands of developers with their first enterprise-class projects--and it's just been totally updated for the latest Java-based enterprise APIs, with complete lifecycle coverage addressing every key enterprise development issue you face!
Coverage includes:
- Java technology project lifecycle and software development
- Enterprise JavaBeans™ Framework--in depth
- Advanced EJB architectures, including ORB-based servers, security and transaction interoperation
- Load balancing and clustering for maximum performance
- Advanced techniques for servlet development and deployment and EJB integration
- Java 2 Platform security: encryption, secure protocols, authorization, access control, and firewalls
You'll find detailed techniques for managing enterprise-scale Java-based development projects, new JDBC™ database connectivity information, timely information on Java-based application servers, and much more. From start to finish, Advanced Java 2 Development for Enterprise Applications, Second Edition delivers practical solutions and real code for making your Java software more scalable, more flexible, and more robust!
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This review is from: Advanced Java 2 Development for Enterprise Applications (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
I expected this book to be as clear and useful as the Core Java 2 books by Hortsmann and Cornell...but it is NOT. Its a lot of talking about stuff, but there arent useful examples. Talk talk talk...extremely boring to read. Wordy beyond belief. Once again, if you are familiar with Core Java 2, then you know how lucid THOSE books are. Now...having said that...he does bring up some interesting ideas, and he does attempt to cover alot of topics. Just not well. You read a section, and then you're like : "Now What? I read it...I understand it...but how do i go about appyling anything? Throw me an example dude." Its just so damned annoying to read. All in all, its a good overview, INFORMATIVE, and raises a few interesting questions. Take a look at it in a book store or get ahold of an excerpt before buying. All i can say is that i should not be working so hard just to read his prose. Break up the 10 page long paragraph : Maybe if he bulleted some points, or reorganized how its laid out.. Just for comparison, i found the following books good reads (in terms of readability): ||Java Servlet Programming by Jason Hunter ||Core Java 2 : both volumes ||half of -> Professional Java Server Programming (Wrox Press) ||Applying UML by Craig Larson.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Perfect resource for Java Architect certification test,
By Michael Poulin (Boston, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Advanced Java 2 Development for Enterprise Applications (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
This book is for architects rather than for developers. I've found the answers for the most of test questions in it but I did read very meticulously. I think it is one of the best accumulative resources both for the test and for every day Java Architect work.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Boring,
This review is from: Advanced Java 2 Development for Enterprise Applications (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
With all due respect to the Author's back ground and knowledge, I just didnt like this dry, cold prose. Certainly there is content, but you could never read more than a dozen pages because of the small font and the way it is explained. This book smelled more like a dry manual than a book from core java series.
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