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Java EE 5 Development using GlassFish Application Server
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by David Heffelfinger
Sales Rank: 58767
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List Price: $49.99
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Paperback: 424 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing September 30, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1847192602
ISBN-13: 978-1847192608
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Book Description
This is a guide to developing Java EE 5 applications deployed to the high-performance, Java EE 5-compliant GlassFish application server, which is quickly gaining massive popularity. After GlassFish installation and configuration, it covers application development, including all major Java EE 5 APIs: JSPs, JSTL, Servlets, and JSF for web applications; the Java Persistence API and JDBC to interact with RDBMS; EJB 3, including container-managed transactions and EJB declarative security through annotations; the JMS API for messaging; the JAAS API for secure applications; frameworks built on the Java EE 5 specification, including Seam, Facelets, and Ajax4jsf. It is aimed at Java developers wishing to become proficient with Java EE 5, who are expected to have some experience with Java and J2EE technologies and to have developed and deployed applications in the past, but need no previous knowledge of Java EE, and will teach the reader how to use GlassFish to develop and deploy applications.
Customer Reviews & Comments
To get right to the issue, if you are new to Glassfish and Java EE than this book is for you. It does a great job of covering all the major topics of the J2EE Server, JPA, EJB 3.0, JMS, WebServices, and Security. I was not too happy to see the Glassfish apptool used throughout the book, since that is not a part of the J2EE Standard toolset. Also the discussions of jsp, and the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library is overkill, and not used as much in preference for Java Server Faces, and AJAX related technology. Where the book lacks is in detail hints, and configuration setup. Such as Glassfish Clustering, JMS Queue Management, Management, Monitoring, Logging or connecting to Load Balancers or Web Servers. It is also hard to write a book on Glassfish without including Netbeans, which works so well with Glassfish services. I think the upcomming Netbeans 6.0 Book, should also be required to close the development circle to being productive with this tool set. The Pair of tools Netbeans 6.0 and Glassfish, is as powerful of a combination I have found. The best of the Opensource free development tools, because of the close tie to the Java Enterprise Edition Standard. I think the Author and reviewers did a great job in presenting the information. It just seams like another book for detailed Glassfish Implementations should be created. The Sun Manuals are dry even by my Sun Certified Web/Bus/Service standards. They were not meant the explain why you need to set the options or why should you care about it, whereas books like this gives you a reason to care. We as a community are taking this App server mainstream and better documentation and books there are out there, is the key to the promotion of such a great product that everyone has spent time making. Go Glassfish, it's a great product. Glassfish is my favorite to develop, and second on my list for production environments, basically because of documentation (And Cluster) issues.
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