Enterprise JavaBeans Component Architecture: Designing and Coding Enterprise Applications (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition Series) [Paperback]

Gail Anderson (Author), Paul Anderson (Author)

Book Description

Series: Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition Series | Publication Date: March 11, 2002

This book simplifies the creation of well-designed enterprise applications using Sun's newly upgraded Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0 platform. Experienced Java mentors Gail and Paul Anderson use detailed code examples to introduce every key skill involved in creating EJB components, standalone Java clients, and JSP Web-based clients. They also show how to apply today's most powerful EJB design guidelines and patterns -- and how to avoid critical errors in EJB application design. Using real-world business components, the authors illustrate these and other key EJB features: stateless and stateful session beans, entity beans with bean-managed persistence, entity beans with container-managed persistence, container-managed relationships, local and remote interfaces, the EJB query language, and message-driven beans. Each chapter includes a "Design Guidelines and Patterns" section that helps developers understand the key tradeoffs associated with their design decisions.

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Proven techniques and patterns for enterprise development.

• Design guidelines for EJB 2.0 component architecture
• Powerful patterns for enterprise application design
• Extensive real-world code examples
• Covers every type of component, including message-driven beans

This book simplifies the creation of well-designed enterprise applications using the upgraded Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0 specification. Experienced Java platform mentors Gail Anderson and Paul Anderson use detailed code examples to introduce every key skill involved in creating components, stand-alone Java platform clients, and JavaServer Pages API clients. They introduce powerful EJB platform design patterns, and show how to apply them in real-world projects while avoiding critical errors in application design. Using actual business components, the authors show how to make the most of these key EJB component architecture features:

• Stateless and stateful session beans
• Entity beans with bean-managed persistence
• Entity beans with container-managed persistence
• Container-managed relationships
• Local and remote interfaces
• The Enterprise JavaBeans Query Language
• EJB 2.0 specification message driven beans

Each chapter includes a "Design Guidelines and Patterns" section designed to help you assess tradeoffs associated with your design decisions, and key point summaries that tie together important concepts. In short, Anderson and Anderson give you everything you need to build EJB 2.0 platform applications with maximum robustness, scalability, and performance.

Everything you need to take full advantage of the EJB 2.0 specification:

• Extensive code examples—real-world business components with just enough complexity to explain subtle design issues
• How to apply J2EE platform design patterns—Value Object, Data Access Object, Value List Iterator, and Session Faade Pattern
• Design guidelines for building distributed applications that avoid common pitfalls
• Expert insight into matching enterprise beans to application requirements
• Crystal-clear explanations of the key concepts that make EJB technology so powerful

About the Author

GAIL ANDERSON, founding member and Director of Research at Anderson Software Group, specializes in Java technology, UNIX/Linux, C, C++, and object-oriented design. The courseware she has developed for Anderson Software includes materials on EJB, JSP and servlet technologies, JDBC API, and UML.

PAUL ANDERSON, founding member and Director of Training at Anderson Software Group, specializes in making the technical aspects of software engineering understandable. He has taught courses at IBM, AT&T, Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard, the U.S. Navy, Qualcomm, and other leading firms.

Gail Anderson and Paul Anderson have co-authored three books, including Prentice Hall's The UNIX C Shell Field Guide and Navigating C++ and Object-Oriented Design.

Visit Anderson Software Group, Inc. at www.asgteach.com

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Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (March 11, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130355712
• ISBN-13: 978-0130355713
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,682,470 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A decent book, May 6, 2002

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Jigar Shah "shahjigar" (North Brunswick, NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Enterprise JavaBeans Component Architecture: Designing and Coding Enterprise Applications (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition Series) (Paperback)

It is not just an EJB book. It shows how to integrate JSPs with EJBs by using various EJB patterns through examples. The patterns include Session Facade, Value List Iterator, Data Access Object, etc. It also covers enough information about EJBs itself. The book differs from other EJB books in the market. Other books only focuses on EJBs itself, but this one talks about JSPs, EJBs, design patterns - it's kind of all in one. The only drawback of this book is sometimes it's very hard to follow. You cannot read it for too long, the flow is missing. May be it's just because the EJB architecture itself is too complex. Although, Ed Roman's Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans book makes learning EJB peace of cake. I wish this book was also written such a way.

There are verious reasons why I bought this book:

- It shows how to integrate your EJBs with JSPs.
- EJB design patterns are exposed.
- Fairly good examples.
- Good end of the chapter summary.
- Concise and well designed chapters.

The bottom line: It's a good book worths the price. If you don't have any EJB book, you can start with this one.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enterprise JavaBeans - A good learning tool, April 24, 2002

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Carl J. Mosca (Richmond, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Enterprise JavaBeans Component Architecture: Designing and Coding Enterprise Applications (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition Series) (Paperback)

I tend to learn general concepts and then fill in the details by studying examples and then practicing. This book was done primarily from the example perspective and in my opinion is a great way to learn how to build EJBs. Before getting into each example, the authors do a fine job of explaining the specific technologies in a "features, benfits/drawbacks, when to use" manner. Certainly worth the price of admission.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book to learn EJB design, April 10, 2002

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"ejbreviewer" (CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Enterprise JavaBeans Component Architecture: Designing and Coding Enterprise Applications (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition Series) (Paperback)

Really good book if you are looking at learning the intricacies of enterprise application(J2EE) design. In accordance with EJB 2.0 specs. Lots of real-world code examples that explains how write EJB components talking to standalone Java clients, JSP etc.
Also explains the design patterns very well. Particularly interesting in this is the DAO(Data Access Object) pattern design which details how to isolate database dependent code and have your applications talk to alternate database implementations. Lots of tips & techniques to achieve good design & improve performance of your apps. Overall a good book which is worth investing in.