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4.0 out of 5 stars
good coverage with design and code, September 16, 2005
This review is from: Guide to J2EE: Enterprise Java (Hardcover)
The book gives a detailed tour of J2EE, circa 2003. It describes the high level functionality that is possible, on top of using Java as your base language. The authors choose Tomcat as the Web application server, and jBoss as the EJB application server because these are popular, open source and free. However, they point out that other servers can be used. Namely IBM's Websphere and BEA's WebLogic. Both are J2EE compliant. So if you are using these, you can still gain from much of the example code in the book and its accompanying website. While the design advice should carry over unchanged.
All the J2EE standards are explained. JMS, RMI, JNDI... Plus also being able to use Java to read and write XML. This latter topic is perhaps not really enterprise level stuff. I'd regard it as more on the lower level of J2SE. Simply because even if you are doing a non-networked application, and so perhaps not using J2EE at all, XML capability can still be good in using data files.
Now in 2005, Java J2SE is at version 1.5. But the book's details about deploying under J2SE 1.4 are valid. 1.5 is essentially a superset of 1.4.
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