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Java Enterprise in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))
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by Jim Farley, William Crawford, Prakash Malani, and John Norman
Sales Rank: 116074
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List Price: $44.95
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Paperback: 892 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 3 edition November 22, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596101422
ISBN-13: 978-0596101428
Product Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 1.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
Product Review
For the intermediate to advanced Java developer, Java Enterprise in a Nutshell shows how to work with all of today's relevant Java APIs. Plus, it's a topnotch reference for all enterprise classes. Part tutorial and part reference work that you can use everyday at your desk, this title is a worthwhile resource for any Java developer building Web or enterprise software.
The practical, succinct focus here on actual Java enterprise APIs helps distinguish this text from the pack. Early sections provide short, clear examples along with just enough background to help you use APIs like JDBC, servlets and JSPs, EJBs, and others. Coverage of Java's ability to interface with legacy CORBA systems is just excellent, with a full tour of Java IDL, CORBA services, and Remote Method Invocation (RMI). Typically, readers will be familiar with some J2EE APIs and not others. This book can help fill in the gaps.
Updated with the latest standards from Sun, including JDBC 3.0, Servlet 2.3, and EJB 2.0, this is an essential primer for today's high-end (and high-paying) Java. The basic presentation of servlets/JSP and EJBs (among the most important APIs for current Java Web development) is concise and nicely digestible. We also liked the chapter on JMS for messaging (also a hotbed of Java job activity).
The second half of this text lists every J2EE class, along with methods and properties, in a very valuable reference section that makes good use of two-toned shading for easy access. Entries are organized by package name. (One small oversight here is that an index of cross-listed packages, classes, and methods omits page numbers.)
Overall, this book is truly indispensable for any working Java programmer. The second edition of Java Enterprise in a Nutshell is a fully up-to-date tutorial and reference that lives up to the standards of O'Reilly’s Nutshell series. Both thorough and concise, it's a handy resource for anyone who works with the hundreds and thousands of Java enterprise APIs on a regular basis. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered: Introduction to enterprise computing with the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), survey of Java enterprise APIs, JDBC 3.0 (including database connections, ResultSets, prepared statements, BLOB fields, transaction support, stored procedures), the JDBC Optional Package (and connection pooling), Remote Method Invocation (RMI) described (building stubs and skeletons, dynamically loaded classes and remote object activation, RMI over IIOP), in-depth tutorial for Java IDL (with CORBA) and designing remote objects, Java Servlet 2.3 APIs (basic servlet processing and the servlet lifecycle, chaining and filters, thread safety, managing state, cookies, servlets used with JDBC), JavaServer Pages (JSP): including custom tags, JNDI and directory tutorial (contexts, looking up objects, accessing and modifying directory entries), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 2.0 (conventions for entity, session and message beans, using transactions), Java XML APIs (DOM, SAX and XSLT), Java Message Service (JMS), point-to-point and publish-subscribe messaging models, message selectors, JavaMail, reference to SQL and relational databases, RMI tools, reference to all IDL keywords, data types and declarations; CORBA services, Java IDL tool reference, Enterprise JavaBeans Query Language (EJB QL) 2.0 query language, and an alphabetical listing of all APIs for Java enterprise programming (listing of classes, methods, and properties).
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
Product Description
Nothing is as constant as change, and this is as true in enterprise computing as anywhere else. With the recent release of Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4, developers are being called on to add even greater, more complex levels of interconnectivity to their applications.
To do this, Java developers today need a clear understanding of how to apply the new APIs, use the latest open source Java tools, and learn the capabilities and pitfalls in Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 -- so they can plan a technology and implementation strategy for new enterprise projects.
Fortunately, this is exactly what they get with the new Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition. Because most integrated development environments (IDE) today include API lookup, we took out the main API sections from our previous edition to make room for new chapters, among others, on Ant, Cactus, Hibernate, Jakarta Struts, JUnit, security, XDoclet, and XML/JAXP.
Revised and updated for the new 1.4 version of Sun Microsystems Java Enterprise Edition software, Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition is a practical guide for enterprise Java developers.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This review is from: Java Enterprise in a Nutshell (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
Another large and impressive manual to add to your collection. This title is meant to be the third volume of a three-volume set that covers the entire language. Volume one covers the basic core Java APIs, while volume two covers the foundation classes. Of the three volumes that make up this Nutshell series, this is the one that you'll be able to bypass if you're just moving into the world of Java. I think that even experienced programmers might end up heavily using some chapters while never touching others. The format is the same as other Nutshell volumes, where there is a lot of detail with not a lot of fluffy explanation. Each of the Part 1 chapters give a quick overview and tutorial as to what the technology is (such as JavaServer Pages) and how it works. There are some examples of code to help you understand how it works. But the authors acknowledge that they do not expect you to be an expert after reading that chapter. You have to either already know what's going on or seek out another book to more fully learn and understand what is going on. O'Reilly has a vast array of books that go into each of these subjects in a more detailed manner. For Notes/Domino 5 developers, I would say that there is little in this book that would be of value to you. You might be interested in JDBC as a replacement/supplement to ODBC. The XML chapter with information on parsers might also be of interest. Moving into the Notes/Domino 6 world, more of the book becomes valuable. Those chapters would include the information on servlets and JavaServer Pages. As Notes/Domino becomes more tightly integrated with Websphere, you'll need to start understanding servlets and how they function. This book could be a good tool to help you build them. Conclusion If you're an advanced Java developer and are working on enterprise Java applications, get this book. If you're a Notes/Domino developer looking to move into servlets, JavaServer Pages, and XML, you should also get this book. If you don't fit into either of these categories, you probably won't do much with this volume.
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Java Enterprise in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))
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