Beginning Java EE 5: From Novice to Professional [Paperback]

Kevin Mukhar (Author), Chris Zelenak (Author), James L. Weaver (Author), Jim Crume (Author)

Book Description

Series: Novice to Professional | Publication Date: November 2, 2005

The Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) is an extremely powerful platform for developing enterprise-level Java-based applications, primarily for the server. This book shows you how to harness that power, examining how the pieces of the new J2EE 5 platform fit together.

This book surpasses explaining how to code a JSP or an EJB: It explains when and where to use these APIs, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and perhaps most importantly, how to employ the best practices for using them.

Hands-on tutorials are also included, along with clear explanations and working code examples. You will grow to take the next step—from writing client-side desktop applications to writing enterprise applications. You will also learn how to use the individual APIs and tools in the J2EE platform, and how to merge these to create your own enterprise applications.

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About the Author

James L. Weaver is the chief scientist at Learning Assistant Technologies, a company that specializes in developing learner-centric tools. He is also the president of JMentor, a Java mentoring, training, and consulting practice.

Jim Crume is a Java architect at Fusion Alliance, an Indianapolis-based consulting company that specializes in web application development. Crume has spent many years as a consultant, and specializes in architecting and developing web-based systems, but he particularly enjoys Java.

Kevin Mukhar is a software developer in Colorado Springs, Colorado. For the past 5 years, he has worked on various software systems using different J2EE technologies. He has co-authored three other books, including Beginning Java Databases (1861004370), which is one of the most popular of the JDBC books available today. He is currently working on a master's degree in computer science and learning to play the saxophone. He recently passed the Java Web Component Developer Certification exam.

Product Details

• Paperback: 672 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1st ed. 2006. Corr. 2nd printing edition (November 2, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590594703
• ISBN-13: 978-1590594704
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.9 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #121,297 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Chapters 1-8 good; Chapters 9-14 don't work, May 26, 2006

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This review is from: Beginning Java EE 5: From Novice to Professional (Paperback)

This book was published too early. By that I mean, Java EE 5 was not finalized so the code examples starting in chapter 9 don't work. Another example is chapter 10 titled EJB Entity Beans. According to the Sun tutorial, Entity Beans have been replaced by the Java Persistence API.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but..., April 18, 2006

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C. V. Ramirez "swimmer" (México DF) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning Java EE 5: From Novice to Professional (Paperback)

The book is very good until you reach chapter 9, i think the authors made this book with a no ready version of ejb 3.0 spec's.
When i tried to run the examples i couldn?t. I prefered to start the jboss ejb 3.0 tutorial and i think im going to give just a glimpse to the
next chapters to see if something works.

It was good... until chapter 9

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too much too fast!, March 24, 2006

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Le Grand "J.C Castro B" (SJ, CR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beginning Java EE 5: From Novice to Professional (Paperback)

I bought this book to update my self on Java EE 5. However when I come to Chapter 9 and I try to run Jboss session bean samples it seems that things have changed since the moment they wrote the book. And I'm sure specification of EJB3 and JBOss will change until final realease.

I wrote to the authors but I never had an answer to my questions, so it did the experiencie a little bit more frustrating.

I learnt not to buy books of things under development!,