Beginning Database-Driven Application Development in Java EE: Using GlassFish (Expert's Voice in Open Source) [Paperback]

Yuli Vasiliev (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 24, 2008 | ISBN-10: 1430209631 | ISBN-13: 978-1430209638 | Edition: 1

Beginning Database-Driven Application Development in Java™ EE: Using GlassFish™ focuses on the open source GlassFish persistence engine. This book shows Java programmers how to develop applications utilizing relational database technologies with examples using Oracle and MySQL and the GlassFish application development framework and deployment platform all based on Java EE.

• The book explains in detail how you can organize your Java EE solution into a multilayer architecture, placing most emphasis on how to implement the persistence and database tiers of an application.
• Through many examples, this book shows how you can efficiently use the Java Persistence features available in the Java EE platform. Find out how you can greatly simplify the task of building the persistence layer of your Java EE application by moving some application logic into the underlying database, utilizing database views, stored programs, and triggers.
• The book also explains how to deploy Java EE applications to GlassFish, a free, open source Java EE 5–compliant application server.

What you’ll learn

• Use the GlassFish persistence layer in conjunction with GlassFish Java EE application server.
• Organize the database and persistence tiers of a Java EE application and utilize MySQL or Oracle database applications when building the database tier.
• Work with EJB 3 JPA object/relational mapping features, plug JPA into Java EE transactional environment, and implement persistence with the EJB 3 EntityManager.
• Integrate and use JSF (web–tier) using GlassFish JSF Framework (Scales) and other JSF tools/frameworks.
• Deploy applications to GlassFish Application Server.

Who this book is for

The book is appropriate for Java developers who want to learn how to develop Java EE applications interacting with a relational database via the Java Persistence API (JPA) and then deploy them to the open source GlassFish Application Server.

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About the Author

Yuli Vasiliev is a software developer, freelance author, and consultant currently specializing in open source development, Java technologies, databases, and service-oriented architecture (SOA). He has over 10 years of software development experience as well as several years of technical writing experience. He wrote a series of technical articles for the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) and Oracle Magazine.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (September 24, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1430209631
• ISBN-13: 978-1430209638
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nothing to working app in 6 days, October 26, 2009

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This review is from: Beginning Database-Driven Application Development in Java EE: Using GlassFish (Expert's Voice in Open Source) (Paperback)

We needed to bootstrap ourselves into the J2EE world, and were already using NetBeans for other small tasks. Our project was simple enough, but we needed a high quality message queueing system, so we decided to look into JMS. This boot brought us through enough development to have a working 3-tier application with a data publisher, a transformation object connected to a database, and a graphical data consumer application ready to go in just 6 days.

The other reviewers are correct that it puts a lot of pages into JPA and then rushes through the remaining topics, but it's just enough to get you started on the right terminology and looking for web references that will fill out the particular piece you're scratching your head over. Ideally, we'd love to see an advanced companion to this book that would explain things like how to get queue connection factories to default to clear text on connection, an ongoing puzzler for us, but this book certainly helped us achieve this remarkably fast entry to J2EE programming.

3.0 out of 5 stars JPA heavy, light on the rest., October 15, 2009

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This review is from: Beginning Database-Driven Application Development in Java EE: Using GlassFish (Expert's Voice in Open Source) (Paperback)

At 400 pages, I thought this book would cover more aspects of using Glassfish and Java EE 5. However, the first chapter covers quickly Glassfish setup and then it moves on to covering JPA, in fact the first twevle chapters cover, setting up a database, JPA, Entity Beans, JPQL, and ORM. The last couple of chapters are a rush through the rest of Java EE.

If you are just starting Java EE programming, this is a good starting point for learning the database side of Java EE. There just isn't much more than that. I was really hoping that JSF would be covered more in this book.

4.0 out of 5 stars This book delivers on exact;y what the title says, January 11, 2009

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This review is from: Beginning Database-Driven Application Development in Java EE: Using GlassFish (Expert's Voice in Open Source) (Paperback)

While the layout of the book is sporadic and jumps around a bit, the content walks you carefully through getting up and running on Glassfish, including an good introduction to J2EE Web Applications. The first couple of chapters walk you through downloading and installing / configuring mySQL and the Oracle Database XE (Express Edition). It then eventually moves on toward database specific issues and design considerations, and has a lot of information on Java Persistence API and EJB.

This book has been my 'main' book in the early study of Sun's Application Server and J2EE. Certainly if you are learning J2EE, EJB, and Glassfish you should have a 2-3 books on the topics, but I would highly recommend this book as part of that suite.