IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Application Server Programming [Paperback]

Bassem W. Jamaleddine (Author)

Book Description

Series: Developer's Guides (Osborne) | Publication Date: December 10, 2002

Develop and deploy powerful Web-based applications on multiple platforms - including UNIX, NT, and AIX. Packed with essential information as well as advanced techniques for developers and system integrators, this book will help you maximize every aspect of WebSphere's functionality, and fully leverage the power of this key e-infrastructure software. Covering core Web technologies including EJB, J2EE, and servlets and including original source code for hundreds of working programs, "IBM WebSphere Application Server Programming" belongs in the hands of every serious WebSphere developer and system integrator.

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Develop and deploy powerful Web-based applications on multiple platforms--including UNIX, NT, and AIX. Packed with essential information as well as advanced techniques for developers and system integrators, this book will help you maximize every aspect of WebSphere's functionality, and fully leverage the power of this key e-infrastructure software. Covering core Web technologies including EJB, J2EE, and servlets and including original source code for hundreds of working programs, IBM WebSphere Application Server Programming belongs in the hands of every serious WebSphere developer and system integrator.

• Install the WAS repository
• Get essential guidelines for administration
• Prepare and access a database in Java
• Develop J2EE Web applications in WAS
• Master WAS classes and session management
• Program using JSP, SOAP, EJB, and JAAS security
• Monitor WAS with WASLED and WASMON
• Manage system resources effectively
• Learn proven debugging techniques
• Profit from powerful UNIX commands and scripts

About the Author

Bassem Jamaleddine is a Web systems engineer who has orchestrated the development of several projects at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, including IBM's Java-based network computer and the new generation of WAS IBM technology.

Product Details

• Paperback: 813 pages
• Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill; 1st edition (December 10, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072224592
• ISBN-13: 978-0072224597
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.8 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,571,250 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learn WebSphere from the inside out, January 29, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Application Server Programming (Paperback)

Learn WebSphere from the inside out. This book dispenses with the usual abstractions and details step by step every example and technique. The book starts with installation, moves onto administration and builds on this knowledge to build an application database and finally a complete application. This book contains advanced chapters on performance and monitoring.
What sets this book apart is the depth, it moves below the usual abstractions and reaches the inner WebSphere core.

Based on purely freely downloadable tools, this book is great for students on a budget and contains sufficient grunt for the seasoned professional code cutter or sysadmin.

I guarantee you will never read a WebSphere book quite like this one, it has introduced me to a completely different way of viewing WebSphere and J2EE.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This text matches concisely its title. A very good book!, February 13, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Application Server Programming (Paperback)

This is a book about WAS -- WebSphere Application Server -- whose contents stick concisely to its title.
As a reader, I was surprised that the author really took the opposite tack using standard UNIX commands
than every other WebSphere book to discuss the administration and programming in WebSphere Application
Server while totally avoiding WSAD or Visual Age.
Any reader can just start with a Linux machine, a text editor, and WebSphere Application Server solely
to learn the inside and out of the latter.

The book teaches you a step by step installation, followed by testing the installation and administration;
then progressively programming a web application that flow from one chapter to another; then stress
testing the web application; and finally monitoring, tuning, and risk managing WAS and the web applications.

The book teaches you how to deliver WebSphere applications with maximum performance and availability.
This book also offers free download for a toolkit and the WebSphere monitoring application for
anyone who would like to supplement his or her computer system executable with extra tools to benchmark
Web applications, to monitor processes and threads, to add a WAS risk management application, etc.

The writing is solid and the technical approach using the standard UNIX shell scripts and the make
utility untied this book from a specific version of WAS.
The learning vehicle focuses on concrete commands that show you what is happening behind the scene
of web applications programming.

Being a book whose contents stick to its title, this is a 4+ stars book (and a 5+ stars once the electronic
typos are corrected).

This is a fine book in distributed systems to be added to the computer science library.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Plenty of insight into WebSphere. Abosutely to be read!, April 15, 2003

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R. Buchan (Glasgow, Scotland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Application Server Programming (Paperback)

Excellent book for all Linux and UNIX users. This book offers plenty of insight into the administration and programming of WebSphere that helped me to understand many interesting points such as J2EE classloading under WebSphere runtime, HTTP session persistence (persisted to database), the web container and JAAS-securing servlets, beans to be turned into web services, etc.
This book is highly technical, and it offers also insight into the administration way of thing. I recommend it for real enterprise application development.
Absolutely to be read.