Synopsis
"Java Enterprise in a Nutshell" is a quick reference for Java programmers who are writing distributed enterprise applications. The book provides fast-paced tutorials on the following Java Enterprise APIs: JDBC, a vendor-independent API for accessing relational database systems; RMI, a Java-only approach to distributed computing that relies on remote method invocation; Java IDL, a CORBA-based, language-independent approach to distributed computing; Java servlets, a mechanism for extending a web server that allows Java code to perform tasks traditionally handled by CGI scripts; JNDI, a generic Java API for working with networked naming and directory services; and Enterprise JavaBeans, a component model that separates high-level business logic from low-level housekeeping chores like security and transaction management. These APIs are the building blocks of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Sun's platform for enterprise computing. J2EE is the standard Java 2 platform with a number of extensions for enterprise development. "Java Enterprise in a Nutshell" also contains O'Reilly's classic-style, quick-reference material for all of the classes in the various packages that comprise the Enterprise APIs. This material includes the core Enterprise APIs that are part of Java 1.2, as well as numerous standard extensions. The book is a companion to both "Java in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition", which covers the key non-graphical, non-enterprise APIs in Java 1.2, and "Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell", which describes the graphics- and GUI-related classes of Java 1.2.
About the Author
David Flanagan is the author of the bestselling Java in a Nutshell. When David isn't busy writing about Java, he is a consulting computer programmer, user interface designer, and trainer. His other books with O'Reilly include JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Netscape IFC in a Nutshell, X Toolkit Intrinsics Reference Manual, and Motif Tools: Streamlined GUI Design and Programming with the Xmt Library. David has a degree in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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. William Crawford got involved with web development back in 1995. He has worked at the Children's Hospital Informatics Program in Boston, where he helped develop the first web-based electronic medical record system and was involved in some of the first uses of Java at the enterprise level. He has consulted for a wide variety of institutional clients, including Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical Center, and several Fortune 500 companies. Will currently heads the product development team at Invantage, Inc., a Cambridge, Massachusetts, company developing Java-based intranet tools for the pharmaceutical industry. In his spare time he is an avid photographer, writer, and economics student at Yale University. Kristopher Magnusson is the Open Source Programs Architect at Novell. He edited the original Java Directory Service Interface proposal for JavaSoft in 1996, worked on the Novell JNDI design team as the lead writer, and wrote JNDI sample code and tutorials. He earned a Bachelor's of Science from the University of Utah in 1991 in economics, has been active in the NeXT and open source communities for years, and loves object-oriented design and computing. He lives with his partner, Kristen, in Salt Lake City, where he enjoys community activism, mountain biking, and oenophilia.
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