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Enterprise Java(TM) Programming with IBM(R) WebSphere(R) (2nd Edition)
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by Kyle Brown, Gary Craig, Greg Hester, and David Pitt
Sales Rank: 472787
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List Price: $64.99
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Hardcover: 960 pages
Publisher: IBM Press; 2 edition December 25, 2003
Language: English
ISBN-10: 032118579X
ISBN-13: 978-0321185792
Product Dimensions:
9.3 x 7.2 x 1.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
Product Review
Suitable for intermediate to advanced Java programmers, Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere is an up-to-the-minute guide to creating server software using the latest Java standards. It's a perfect one-volume resource for getting on board with some of the best ideas on the Java platform for building enterprise software.
While most books focus on Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and related standards without looking at particular Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) tools, this title zeros in on IBM's popular VisualAge and WebSphere products for building and deploying Java software. The book does a good job of explaining the higher-level principles when it comes to Java standards like Servlets, JSP, and EJB. The more abstract material on the best ways to combine these front-end and back-end technologies is anchored by chapters that show how to use the real IBM tools.
Sections on modeling EJBs, for example, show you how to build real EJBs in VisualAge (including some fine material on associations that will let you model even complex database schemas with Java components). Another plus is material on the specifics of deploying Beans on the WebSphere platform, including tips on editing XML descriptor data. With today's J2EE standards, the genius is in the details. This book strikes a good balance between theory and practical advice. It gives you some of Sun's current best practices, like the Model-View-Controller (MVC). With fast-moving and useful tutorials on Servlet JSP and EJB standards, the authors also discuss layering of components on the server to achieve the separation of presentation and business logic, a must for today's Java Web applications. Patterns and other strategies for making sure you separate the tiers are also introduced.
By anchoring a state-of-the-art tour of Java with samples using real IBM tools, this title provides what Java developers need to use JSPs and EJBs effectively in real projects to solve real business problems. It's quite simply one of the best available tutorials for learning how to build successful Web applications in Java. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered:- Survey of e-commerce for business
- Review of computer architecture (from client/server to Web-based multitiered systems)
- Introduction to the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
- The Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern (including layered applications)
- HTTP and Servlet basics
- Introduction to IBM VisualAge for EJB development
- The IBM WebSphere Test Environment (WTE)
- IBM WebSphere Application Server for EJBs (installing and configuration hints and using XMLConfig)
- Managing session state
- IBM WebSphere Studio tutorial (including JSP development with Page Designer)
- Servlet design guidelines (including patterns, exception handling, Servlet chaining, and filtering)
- JSP tutorial (including expressions and directives)
- Direct and indirect models for JSPs
- Using Beans with JSPs
- Testing and deploying JSPs
- Custom tag libraries
- Case study for an employee timesheet Web application (including use cases and class diagrams)
- EJB tutorial (including session and entity Beans)
- How to use VisualAge to build EJBs (including object-relational mapping tools)
- Testing and debugging EJBs
- EJB clients
- Container-managed and Bean-managed persistence
- EJB transactions
- Advanced CMP mapping techniques (including associations)
- Techniques for layered applications in EJBs (using facade and factory classes)
- Deploying EJBs in WebSphere
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Description
Customer Reviews & Comments
Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere is a solid overview of J2EE technologies and a great tutorial for using IBM's top-notch IDE for developing J2EE applications. The authors (all 9 of them) go through the whole J2EE architecture from JavaServer Pages to Enterprise JavaBeans to Web Services one element at a time, including "bonuses" here and there, such as testing certain types of J2EE components, the Apache Struts framework, building a presentation layer using XML and XSLT, and mapping objects to data sources. Each chapter includes a brief introduction to the technology, starting from the basics, and proceeds through the development steps in WSAD using lots of nice screenshots (which are mandatory for such a topic) and plenty of example code. Although some of the plain text is simply describing the wizards and dialogs of WSAD, the why's are always explained. My biggest glitch with this book was in fact how the code snippets are rendered. Besides the mandatory typos and occasional weird wordings, the code snippets were often badly formatted and double-spaced which made them unnecessarily difficult to read at times. The book comes with a 3 CD set of software, including trial versions of WebSphere Studio Application Developer, DB2 Personal Edition, WebSphere Application Server, and all of the book's source code. I had some trouble installing the software but that was most probably because I tried to customize the installations quite a bit Over 800 pages of "let's walk this through together" type of tutorial is an admirable goal and the authors have done a good job making it a pleasant experience. The book has a lot of content and a lot of it is some of the finest text I've read about J2EE best practices. As one could expect, the trade-off is that none of the topics/technologies are really covered in complete detail. All things considered, I'd say this is a great first or second book about J2EE if you're going to use WebSphere Studio. I really can't say whether it should be the first or second, but I know it makes a great companion for a more in-depth technical reference.
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Enterprise Java(TM) Programming with IBM(R) WebSphere(R) (2nd Edition)
List Price: $64.99
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