The Java EE 5 Tutorial is an introduction to programming server-side Java applications. This book takes a task-oriented, example-driven approach to show you how to build applications for the Java EE 5 platform. This book also describes the features and functionalities available with NetBeans 5.5.

What's new in this edition? The author team have updated the existing chapters to reflect the changes to JSP, EJB, Servlets, and more. Also, the authors have added new chapters on the Sun Java System Application Server 9 as a deployment environment for server-side technologies. The web-tier technology chapters cover the components used in developing the presentation layer of a Java EE 5 or stand-alone web application. The web services technology chapters cover the APIs used in developing standard web services. The Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) technology chapters cover the components used in developing the business logic of a Java EE 5 application. The Persistence technology chapters cover the Java Persistence API, which is used for accessing databases from Java EE applications. The platform services chapters cover the system services used by all the Java EE 5 component technologies

About The Author

Eric Jendrock leads Sun's Java EE Tutorial and Java WSIT Tutorial teams.

Jennifer Ball has documented JavaServer Faces technology, the Java2D API, deploytool, and JAXB.

Debbie Carson documents the Java EE, Java SE, and Java WSIT platforms.

Ian Evans documents the Java EE and Java Web Services platforms, and edits Java EE platform specifications.

Scott Fordin has written numerous articles and Sun guidebooks on Java, XML, and web service technologies.

Kim Haase documents the Java EE platform and Java Web Services, including Java Message Service (JMS), Java API for XML Registries (JAXR), and the SAAJ.

Customer Reviews & Comments
The book description says "This book takes a task-oriented, example-driven approach to show you how to build applications for the Java EE 5 platform." That is a very misleading half truth. You would expect step by step instructions to write and deploy simple examples. Well the authors have decided to take a short cut instead. They say 'Here is a nice little example we have written the other day. And we will just tell you how to deploy and run it!. True, they 'discuss' the code in the text. But obviously that is not as good as guiding you through the process of building and deploying from scratch. As a result, you have to learn some stuff the hard way by struggling with error messages (for example how to set up library references in netbeans when creating Application Clients or how to edit the build.properties before using ant to create JMS resources etc are not mentioned) In the preface you get a 'road map' diagram to help you 'navigate' through the tutorial. But that doesn't tell the whole story.For example the diagram doesn't really tell you that to learn about Message driven beans (which is around the in the middle of the book) you should first learn JMS( which is near the end of the book) Too many forward references makes this very difficult to use. I am not saying it is completely useless. With a little pain and some googling you can stumble through this stuff very slowly. But it just could be an awful lot better. Sun says they have simplified JEE so much with version 5. If that is so why can't they write a complete tutorial that readers new to JEE can read and work through step by step? The biggest criticism leveled against JEE is that it is too complex. By writing a better tutorial Sun can go a long way towards making JEE easier to use.