Developing Java Enterprise Applications [Paperback]

Stephen Asbury (Author), Scott R. Weiner (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471327565 | ISBN-13: 978-0471327561 | Publication Date: February 16, 1999

Learn how to build sophisticated enterprise applications using the Java(TM) Enterprise APIs

Stephen Asbury and Scott Weiner - two of Sun's favorite Java programming trainers-provide easy-to-digest instruction for the major Java Enterprise APIs and their associated programming tools and products. They describe proven techniques for combining these APIs to create powerful enterprise applications and discuss the role middleware products play in the enterprise development process. You'll learn how to:
* Program with Java Enterprise APIs like RMI, Servlets, JDBC, JNDI, JTS, and others
* Build N-Tier, transaction applications with Enterprise JavaBeans
* Create messaging applications with Java Messaging Service (JMS)
* Build a servlet search engine for your Web site
* Create an online store with JavaServer Pages (JSP)
* The CD-ROM supplies you with:
* Over 75 example Java applications, servlets, and Enterprise JavaBeans
* Two comprehensive examples including MiniJMS, a simple JMS provider
* Java 2 and Java Servlet Development Kit version 2.0 from Sun Microsystems
* BEA WebLogic application server version 3.1
* JBMS evaluation version 1.5 from Cloudscape

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Let's pretend you're a developer or manager looking for the best ways to use Java technologies to solve a problem that requires you to link diverse programs, databases, people, and devices. Developing Java Enterprise Applications shows you what these technologies can do, enabling you to decide which ones to investigate more closely with experimentation and more specialized books.

Authors Stephen Asbury and Scott R. Weiner provide information on seven Java technologies: Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI), JavaServer Pages (JSPs), Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs), Java Messaging Service (JMS), and Java servlets. Throughout the book, the authors demonstrate an awareness of the latest Java developments, including aspects of the core packages that first appeared in Java 2.

The authors use prose to explain the technologies from an architectural point of view, detailing what each is good for and why you'd want to use it. They then provide illustrative programs that show how the technology works from a practical perspective. While these illustrations aren't enough to provide a full working knowledge of the Java Enterprise APIs, they are enough to get programmers oriented. After studying these examples, it's possible to ask intelligent questions about the various technologies and do effective research.

Despite the sequential approach to the APIs, Developing Java Enterprise Applications does a fair job of explaining how multiple enterprise technologies can be used together for maximum effect. Concluding chapters present some fairly elaborate applications--including a neat online store--that integrate elements from several of the covered packages. --David Wall

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"...This book is a good starting point for someone wishing to understand some of the technologies available in the world of Java..." (CVu, June 2002) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 800 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (February 16, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471327565
• ISBN-13: 978-0471327561
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,391,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent overview of key Enterprise Java Technologies, August 10, 1999

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This review is from: Developing Java Enterprise Applications (Paperback)

This book provides an excellent overview of the core Enterprise Java technologies for building 3 & N-tier application servers. Though it does not go into too much depth, it did provide enough information (sample code sniplets) and understanding of how each of these technologies play within a distributed OO application service - JMS, JTS, EJB, JavaServerPages, Servlets, and JDBC.

Each chapter provides useful information about the technology and its role in an enterprise application.

Although there are many sources that will provide you with the same kinds of information on JMS, JTS, EJB, ... this book is a very nice single source reference for all these technologies.

If you are new to Enterprise Java or simply need an overview of how all these technologies play together in a distributed intra/internet application server - this is a good book to start with.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good starting point for Java Enterprise development, September 21, 2000

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This review is from: Developing Java Enterprise Applications (Paperback)

There are a lot of books on the markets these days on J2EE, so finding what you what can be daunting. What this book offers is a good introduction or foundation to the Java Enterprise Technologies. It would be useful for any Java programmer/developer who wants to learn about these technologies but does not know where to begin. So if you do not know your JNDI's from your RMI's, your EJB's from your JMS's, your JSP's from your Servlets, or your JTS from your JTA's, then I would recommend this book for you.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book to get started with Enterprise Java, March 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Developing Java Enterprise Applications (Paperback)

It covers the most important Java APIs that the enterprise developer who uses Java.

The books covers JDBC, RMI, JNDI, JTS, JMS, JSP, EJB, and a few other technologies. The book tends to alternate between explanatory and example chapters. So first, JDBC is discussed and then the next chapter walks through an example.

Given the number of topics in this book, each topic is not covered in full detail as most of the topics are worthy of a book all their own (and many of them already have one). However, this book's goal is to cover just enough so you can understand the technology and get started using its core features.

Therefore, this makes the book excellent for trying to figure what these technologies do. In fact, this book is readable by managers as well as developers, if the managers skip the example chapters.

From reading this book, you get the impression that the authors have quite a bit of experience, have used the technologies discussed, and know what they are talking about. On the whole, this is a great book for getting your feet wet with Enterprise Java.