Professional EJB - Softcover

Sarang, P.G.; Young, Dave; Gabhart, Kyle; Tost, Andre; McAllister, Tim; Adatia, Rahim; Juric, Matjaz; Osborne, Ted; Arni, Faiz; Et Al; Lott, Jeremiah; Nagarajan, Vaidyanathan; O'Connor, Dan; Griffin, John; Mulder, Aaron; Berry, Craig, A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861005083 ISBN 13: 9781861005083

Publisher: WROX Press Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Demonstrates the basics of developing web-based enterprise applications using Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) within the J2EE architecture. Written for experienced Java programmers, the book identifies the advantages of container-managed persistence, and examines four common design patterns for business services applications. Later chapters address how the EJB container handles deployment, runtime services, resource management, and clustering, and how to integrate EJBs with the component object model, CORBA, and wireless applications. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Review

Written for the experienced Java developer or manager, Professional EJB provides a truly in-depth guide to using Enterprise JavaBeans, including versions 1.0 and 2.0. Filled with practical advice for good design and performance and plenty of useful sample code, this title is one of the best available guides to working with this powerful component standard.

While some titles on EJBs are long on theory and short on the nuts-and-bolts of actually deploying and running beans on real platforms, this book distinguishes itself with plenty of practical code, as well as the XML descriptors needed to deploy each sample. (More than with most programming topics, with EJBs the genius is in the details, and the authors supply the necessary deployment specifics here.) Weighing in at over 1,200 pages, this text is massive, but exceptionally well paced. The Wrox team of authors have assembled a simply excellent tutorial for building and using EJBs, beginning with the version 1.0 standard. The authors start with session and then entity beans, exploring features built in to today's J2EE-compliant application servers. Coverage of the EJB 2.0 standard along with new topics such as messaging beans and the Java Message Service (JMS) comes later.

Besides actual source code and an excellent case study for an online movie-ticket booking application, several chapters explore design issues with EJBs in detail. At this point in the book, there is an excellent section on a half-dozen reusable EJB design patterns. There's also plenty of advice for squeezing more performance and scalability out of today's J2EE application servers.

Later chapters turn toward newer technologies, such as wireless and Web services, and how to integrate EJBs with two older distributing computing standards (COM and CORBA). There's coverage on installing and running some of today's most popular J2EE application servers, from BEA WebLogic, to IBM WebSphere Application Server, to the free, open-source JBoss alternative. (In theory, any properly designed EJB will run on any server, but it helps to get some help with each J2EE application server platform.)

In all, the focus on running EJBs in real application servers helps makes this book a success. Professional EJB will be a good refresher for those transitioning to EJB 2.0, as well as those developers who are new to Sun's powerful component standard and want to get it right in a hurry. --Richard Dragan

About the Author

Dr. P G Sarang is a contractor to Sun Microsystems where he trains Sun's corporate clients on various courses from their official curriculum. As CEO of ABCOM Information Systems Pvt. Ltd., Dr. Sarang specializes in training and project development on the Java/CORBA platform. He is a regular speaker in national and international conferences and regularly contributes technical articles to reputed international journals and magazines.

Dave Young has worked with Java since its inception and was one of the first lecturers on Enterprise JavaBeans. He's spoken on EJB-related topics at many conferences. He is president of Z-Systems, Inc.You can reach Dave at dyoung@zs.com.Early this year, he contributed two chapters to Professional Java and XML by Wrox Press.He serves as the Subject Chair for Architectural Patterns and the moderator for a working group on certification within that organization.

Andre Tost works as a solution architect for IBM's Software Group in Rochester, Minnesota. In his current assignment, he works with some of IBM's strategic software partners. He started Java programming in early 1996 in the SanFrancisco project and has been developing in this language ever since. Lately, XML and XSL have caught his attention, and he is closely following how things evolve in this space.

Tim McAllister is Principal Consultant and President of Object Answers, a consulting and training company. His expertise is in Java, J2EE, XML, UML and wireless technologies. Tim can be reached at tim@ObjectAnswers.com.

Rahim Adatia is a founder and the CEO of Lokah Limited. Originally, starting from a C/C++ and CORBA background, he transitioned to Java when it was first emerging in 1995, and is currently tackling the challenges in developing systems to support the emerging wireless data services markets. He can be reached at rahimadatia@yahoo.com.

Matjaz B. Juric is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maribor. His research area covers all aspects of object technology, with special emphasis on distributed object systems, component development, performance, analysis and design. He has been involved in the RMI-IIOP (integral part of Java 2 platform) development for performance analysis and optimization. He is author of several scientific and professional articles in journals like Java Report, Information and Software Technology, ACM journals, etc. He published a chapter in the book More Java Gems and presented on conferences like OOPSLA, ICPADS, PDCS, and SCI.

Over the past 15 years, Ted Osborne has designed, developed, tested, documented, maintained, and explained a variety of software products and technologies. He currently works for Empirix as a developer on the Bean-test(TM) engineering team.

Faiz Arni is the President and co-founder of InferData Corporation, a training, consulting, and mentoring company specializing in object-oriented methodologies and enterprise software development. As a courseware developer and instructor, Faiz provides training in J2EE, CORBA and other enterprise technologies. Faiz also serves as a mentor and consultant for InfeData's clients.

Jeremiah Lott is a software engineer who specializes in data integration. His work over the past few years has included implementing EJB persistence mechanisms.

Vaidyanathan (a.k.a. Nathan) has been programming in the JAVA language, since he started his career with Enherent Corporation in 1996. He has consulted for NETSCAPE in their professional services from Dec '98 - Dec'99. Currently, he is pursuing his M.B.A. in one of the leading Business School.

Daniel O'Connor is the President of MVCSoft Inc.

John Griffin is a software consultant specializing in large-scale distributed application architecture and development. John founded Aries Software Technologies, Inc., an IT consulting company providing software solutions and testing services to the financial and healthcare industries.

Edition details

• Publisher: WROX Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1861005083
• ISBN 13: 9781861005083
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1200