About the Book
Nothing is as constant as change, and this is as true in enterprise computing as anywhere else. With the recent release of Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4, developers are being called on to add even greater, more complex levels of interconnectivity to their applications.
To do this, Java developers today need a clear understanding of how to apply the new APIs, use the latest open source Java tools, and learn the capabilities and pitfalls in Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 -- so they can plan a technology and implementation strategy for new enterprise projects.
Fortunately, this is exactly what they get with the new "Java Enterprise in a Nutshell," 3rd Edition. Because most integrated development environments (IDE) today include API lookup, we took out the main API sections from our previous edition to make room for new chapters, among others, on Ant, Cactus, Hibernate, Jakarta Struts, JUnit, security, XDoclet, and XML/JAXP.
Revised and updated for the new 1.4 version of Sun Microsystems Java Enterprise Edition software, "Java Enterprise in a Nutshell," 3rd Edition is a practical guide for enterprise Java developers.
Table of Contents:
Preface I. The Java Enterprise APIs 1. Introduction Enterprise Computing Defined Enterprise Computing Demystified Standard Java Enterprise APIs De Facto Standard Enterprise Development Tools An Enterprise Computing Scenario Other Enterprise APIs 2. Application Assembly and Deployment J2EE Application Assembly Model Component Modules Application Assemblies Deploying J2EE Applications 3. Java Servlets Getting a Servlet Environment Servlet Basics Web Applications Servlet Requests Servlet Responses Custom Servlet Initialization Security Servlet Filters Thread Safety Cookies Session Tracking Databases and Non-HTML Content 4. JavaServer Pages JSP Basics JSP Actions The JSP Expression Language JSP Standard Tag Library Custom Tags Wrapping Up 5. JavaServer Faces The Sample Application Structure of a JSF Application Managed Beans The JSF Expression Language JSF Actions and Views Building Tables Validation Moving on with JSF 6. Enterprise JavaBeans What Version Is Covered Here? EJB Component Model Overview EJB Tutorial Deploying EJBs Using Enterprise JavaBeans Session Bean Specifics Entity Beans Message-Driven Beans Transaction Management EJB 3.0 7. Java and XML Using XML Documents Java API for XML Processing SAX DOM XSLT 8. JDBC JDBC Architecture Connecting to the Database Statements Results Handling Errors Prepared Statements BLOBs and CLOBs Metadata Transactions Stored Procedures Escape Sequences RowSets 9. JNDI JNDI Architecture A Simple Example Introducing the Context Looking Up Objects in a Context The NamingShell Application Listing the Children of a Context Creating and Destroying Contexts Binding Objects Accessing Directory Services Modifying Directory Entries Creating Directory Entries Searching a Directory Event Notification 10. J2EE Security Basic Security Concepts A Look at Java and J2EE Security Standards Declarative Security Versus Programmatic Security Web Component Security EJB Component Security Other J2EE Security Topics Limitations of J2EE Security 11. Java Message Service JMS in the J2EE Environment Elements of Messaging with JMS The Anatomy of Messages Point-to-Point Messaging Publish-Subscribe Messaging Unified Messaging Transactional Messaging 12. Web Services with JAX-RPC and SAAJ What's Covered Here? Brief Introduction to Web Services Java Web Services Writing Web Service Clients Writing Web Services Deploying Web Services 13. Remote Method Invocation What's Covered Here? Introduction to RMI Defining Remote Objects Creating the Stubs and Skeletons Accessing Remote Objects as a Client Dynamic Classloading Remote Object Activation RMI and Native Method Calls RMI Over IIOP 14. Java IDL (CORBA) A Note on Evolving Standards The CORBA Architecture Creating CORBA Objects Putting It in the Public Eye Finding and Using Remote Objects What If I Don't Have the Interface? 15. JavaMail Email and JavaMail Creating and Sending Messages Retrieving Messages Multipart Messages 16. Transactions Transaction Overview Programmatic Transactions Versus Declarative Transactions Optimistic Concurrency EJB Transaction Management Some Common Programming Scenarios Transaction Best Practices II. Open Source Enterprise Tools 17. Ant What Version Is Covered Here? Ant Overview Ant Fundamentals Core Tasks Enterprise Tasks Creating Portable Build Processes 18. JUnit and Cactus What's Covered Here? Unit Testing Concepts JUnit Overview Using JUnit with Ant Testing Enterprise Components with Cactus 19. Struts The Scope of Struts The Sample Application The Development Process with Struts The Struts Controller The Action Class Views in Struts Struts Tags Struts Plug-ins DynaActionForms and the Struts Validator 20. Hibernate The Sample Application Principles of Hibernate Configuration and Mapping The Hibernate API HQL (Hibernate Query Language) Hibernate Services Conclusion 21. Annotations with XDoclet and J2SE Metadata What's Covered Here? What Are Code Annotations? Annotation Tools XDoclet Tutorial J2SE Annotations Tutorial III. Appendixes A. J2EE Deployment Descriptor Reference B. JavaServer Faces Tag Libraries C. Enterprise JavaBeans Query Language Syntax D. SQL Reference E. JMS Message Selector Syntax F. RMI Tools G. IDL Reference H. Java IDL Tools Index
About the Author :
Jim Farley is a software engineer, computer scientist, and IT manager. His recent activities have included heading up the engineering group at the Harvard Business School and bringing good things to life at GE's Research and Development center. He's dealt with computing (distributed and otherwise) in lots of different ways, from automated image inspection to temporal reasoning systems. Jim has Bachelor's and Master's degrees in computer systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. David Flanagan is a computer programmer who spends most of his time writing about JavaScript and Java. His books with O'Reilly include Java in a Nutshell, Java Examples in a Nutshell, Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, and JavaScript Pocket Reference. David has a degree in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives with his wife and son in the U.S. Pacific Northwest bewteen the cities of Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia. David has a simple website at http://www.davidflanagan.com. William Crawford has been developing web-based enterprise applications since 1995, including one of the first web-based electronic medical record systems (at Children's Hospital in Boston) and some of the first enterprise-level uses of Java. He has consulted for a variety of institutional clients, including Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical Center, numerous startups and several Fortune 500 companies. Prior to an acquisition he was CTO of Invantage, Incorporated in Cambridge, MA. He received a degree in history and economics from Yale University. He is the co-author of Java Servlet Programming, 2nd Edition, Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition, and two forthcoming O'Reilly titles. Will is currently Principal Software Architect at Perceptive Informatics, Inc.Massachusetts, provider of software and services to the pharmaceutical industry. Prakash Malani has extensive experience in architecting, designing, and developing software in many application domains, such as entertainment, finance, retail, medicine, communications, and interactive television. He practices and mentors leading technologies such as J2EE, the Unified Modeling Language (UML), and XML. Prakash also teaches (and preaches) best practices and design patterns at institutions such as California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He has published various articles in industry leading publications such as JavaWorld and WebLogic Developers Journal. John G. Norman has been developing web-based products and services for more than 10 years, and has been working with technology since he was introduced in the mid 70s to an IBM 1130 running FORTRAN and APL. Since 1999 he's worked on social networking products, business analytics, and e-commerce at companies such as Cambridge Incubator, Veritas Medicine, Elytics, and, currently, H3.com, where he is the Chief Software Architect. John has taught literature at Ohio State, new media at the New School, and engineering at Harvard University's Extension Division. He holds a PhD in English Literature from Harvard. Working as a professional programmer, instructor, speaker and pundit since 1992, Justin Gehtland has developed real-world applications using VB, COM, .NET, Java, Perl and a slew of obscure technologies since relegated to the trash heap of technical history. His focus has historically been on "connected" applications, which of course has led him down the COM+, ASP/ASP.NET and JSP roads. Justin is the co-author of Effective Visual Basic (Addison Wesley, 2001) and Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET (Addison Wesley, 2003). He is currently the regular Agility columnist on The Server Side .NET, and works as a consultant through his company Relevance, LLC in addition to teaching for DevelopMentor.
