J2EE 1.4 Bible

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J2EE is the server side specification that all corporate Java developers need to understand regardless of the vendor (BEA, IBM, open source) they use for their Java applications. This newspecification release will drive the need for current and new Java developers to learn the new technologies and look for new examples and code. Special Feature Stellar author team with previous top-selling book writing experience, magazine exposure, and impeccable professional credentials. Includes better use of unique and substantial business examples than the simplistic repetitive examples found in competing books. Material is presented in a vendor-neutral format so readers are not tied to a specific application server. Contains more intermediate and advanced J2EE API coverage than other competing books Offers patterns, J2EE application servers, frameworks, Ant, and continuous availability coverage.

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James McGovern is currently employed as an enterprise architect for Hartford Financial Services. He is the coauthor of The Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture (Prentice Hall, 2003), Java Web Services Architecture (Morgan Kaufmann, 2003), and Xquery-Kick Start (Sams Publishing, 2003). James has 16 years of experience in information technology. He is a member of the Java Community Process, the IEEE, and the Worldwide Institute of Software Architects. He holds industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco, and Sun. Rahim Adatia has been programming since he got his first computer-a TRS-80-way back in the beginning of the '80s. Fortunately, he didn't stagnate there and progressed on to developing large-scale enterprise architectures using C/C++, UML, CORBA, J2EE/EJB/Java, and now C# and .NET. Yakov Fain has more than 20 years of experience in information technology and is an experienced architect, developer, instructor, and mentor. He is the author of The Java Tutorial for the Real World. Yakov is the principal of Smart Data Processing, Inc. (www.smartdataprocessing.com), whose clients include major Wall Street companies. He is a Sun Certified Java 2 Programmer and a Sybase Certified Powerbuilder Developer. Jason Gordon is a software engineer for Verizon and serves as lead for the Global Email system team. While at Verizon he has played a variety of roles, including systems architect for the eBusiness Technology Integration and eInfrastructure group and key developer of the EDGE project, which helped provide a Web-based infrastructure to facilitate the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE into Verizon. Ethan Henry has most recently worked as the manager of training services at Sitraka. In previous positions he was a developer, product manager, and Java evangelist. He has written numerous articles for Java Report, Dr. Dobbs Journal, Java Developers Journal, and Web Techniques. He has been a technical reviewer of multiple books, including Enterprise Java Beans by Valesky, Java How to Program by Dietel and Dietel,Professional JSP by Wrox, and Java Language API Superbible from the Waite Group all the way back in 1996. Walter Hurst is the chief technology officer and founder of Wakesoft. He is widely recognized as a leader in the design and implementation of large-scale distributed enterprise applications. At Wakesoft, Walter was the product architect and author before becoming more involved in company strategy and industry leadership. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and often writes for technical publications. Ashish Jain is an enterprise consultant/architect with over ten years of IT experience. He currently works for BEA Systems Professional Services. In this capacity, Ashish assists BEA customers in designing and implementing their e-business strategies using solutions based on J2EE. He holds several industry certifications from SUN and BEA. He is an active member of local J2EE-user groups and a board member of the Denver BEA-user group. He holds a degree in electronics engineering from BITS Pilani, India. Mark Little is Head of Transactions Technology for Arjuna Technologies Limited, a company that spun off from Hewlett-Packard to concentrate on developing transactions technologies for J2EE and Web services. Prior to this, Mark was a distinguished engineer/architect in HP’s Arjuna Labs in England, where he led the HP Transaction Service and HP Web Services Transaction teams. Vaidyanathan Nagarajan is the coauthor of a recent book, Xquery-Kick Start (Sams Publishing). He has seven years of experience in information technology. Prior to joining Hartford Life Insurance as an enterprise developer, he worked as a consultant to Netscape Professional Services. He has an MBA from a leading business school. His main interests include programming in Java, robotics using Lego Mindstorms, writing, reading, and cartooning. Table of Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Introduction Chapter 1: Understanding Java and the J2EE Platform Chapter 2: Reviewing XML Fundamentals Chapter 3: Introducing Application Servers Chapter 4: Understanding Remote Method Invocation Part II: The Presentation Tier Chapter 5: Studying Servlet Programming Chapter 6: Going Over JSP Basics Chapter 7: Using JSP Tag Extensions Part III: The Enterprise Information System Tier Chapter 8: Working with JavaMail Chapter 9: Understanding the Java Messaging Service Chapter 10: Introducing Java Transactions Chapter 11: Examining JNDI and Directory Services Chapter 12: Understanding Java Authentication and Authorization Services Chapter 13: Exploring Java Cryptography Extensions Part IV: The Service Tier Chapter 14: Understanding EJB Architecture and Design Chapter 15: Explaining Session Beans and Business Logic Chapter 16: Working with Entity Beans Chapter 17: Using Message-Driven Beans Part V: The Data Tier Chapter 18: Reviewing Java Database Connectivity Chapter 19: Understanding the J2EE Connector Architecture Part VI: Web Services Chapter 20: Introducing Web Services Chapter 21: Digging Deeper into SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI Chapter 22: Understanding J2EE Web Services Part VII: Patterns Chapter 23: Reviewing Presentation-Tier Patterns Chapter 24: Working with Service-Tier Patterns Chapter 25: Using Data-Tier Patterns Part VIII: Advanced Topics Chapter 26: Exploring Frameworks and Application Architecture Chapter 27: Using ANT to Build and Deploy Applications Chapter 28: Creating High-Performance Java Applications Appendix A: Airline Reservations Business Case Appendix B: Magazine Publisher Business Case Appendix C: Additional Reading and References Index