Beginning EJB 3 Application Development: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: from Novice to Professional)

Beginning EJB 3 Application Development: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: from Novice to Professional)


EJB 3.0 has made huge advances in ease of development, and its drastically simplified programming model has been widely acclaimed. Targeted at Java and J2EE developers both with and without prior EJB experience, Beginning EJB 3 Application Development takes readers through the details of the EJB 3.0 architecture, and shows how EJB can be used to develop powerful, standards-based backend business logic. With 12 years of combined EJB experience, the authors offer many practical insights into the entire EJB architecture and cover all areas of the EJB 3.0 specification, including

• Complete exploration of all types of beans, from session beans to message-driven beans and entity beans
  
• A deep look at the new EJB 3 persistence and object-relational mapping mechanisms
  
• Application client integration
  
• Testing inside and outside the EJB container
  
• Comprehensive sample application with integrated EJB components
  
• Upgrade headaches--common issues encountered when migrating from EJB 2.1 to EJB 3.0
  

With Java and SQL under your belt, this book will teach you EJB 3 from the ground up. It provides a complete and practical roadmap to EJB 3 architecture and programming. And it covers upgrade issues that you'll encounter when migrating from EJB 2.1 to EJB 3.0, so it's highly relevant if you're already an EJB developer.

Spring in Action

Spring in Action

Written for enterprise Java developers who have become disillusioned with the complexity and bulk involved with EJB development, this programming tool demonstrates how the Spring framework can make coupled code easy to manage, understand, reuse, and unit-test. Spring's employment of inversion control and aspect-oriented programming techniques to encourage loosely coupled code is explained, providing programmers with the ability to use JavaBeans with the power and enterprise services only previously available in the heavier Enterprise JavaBeans.

Special Edition Using Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 2.0

Special Edition Using Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 2.0

Special Edition Using EJB 2.0 starts with a description of how EJB fits into the big picture of J2EE development, then covers such topics as:

• Locating EJB's using JNDI
  
• Managing data with EJB Query Language
  
• Building JMS applications using the new Message-driven Bean
  
• Planning EJB applications using design patterns
  

Later chapters describe advanced development topics including interoperability, horizontal services and clustering. Throughout the book, the authors construct a component-based auction web site using the J2EE architecture as a practical example.

Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API (Pro)

Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API (Pro)

EJB 3.0 sets a new precedent. It has made huge advances in ease of development, and its drastically simplified programming model has been widely acclaimed. This book is the definitive guide to EJB 3.0 persistence technology. The authors provide unparalleled insight and expertise on this topic, fully examining and explaining EJB 3.0 persistence specification. They describe how to use this sophisticated technology to its full potential, including

• The new EntityManager API
  
• The new features of EJB Query Language (EJB QL)
  
• Basic and advanced object-relational mapping
  
• Advanced topics like concurrency, locking, inheritance, and polymorphism
  

Assuming a basic knowledge of Java, SQL, JDBC, and some J2EE experience, this book teaches you EJB 3 persistence from the ground up. After reading it, you will have an in-depth understanding of the EJB 3.0 Persistence API and how to use it in your applications.

Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans, Third Edition

Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans, Third Edition

* Includes more than 30 percent revised material and five new chapters, covering the new 2.1 features such as EJB Timer Service and JMS as well as the latest open source Java solutions

* The book was developed as part ofTheServerSide.com online EJB community, ensuring a built-in audience

* Demonstrates how to build an EJB system, program with EJB, adopt best practices, and harness advanced EJB concepts and techniques, including transactions,persistence, clustering, integration, and performance optimization

Enterprise JavaBeans Component Architecture: Designing and Coding Enterprise Applications

Enterprise JavaBeans Component Architecture: Designing and Coding Enterprise Applications

Proven techniques and patterns for enterprise development.

• Design guidelines for EJB 2.0 component architecture
  
• Powerful patterns for enterprise application design
  
• Extensive real-world code examples
  
• Covers every type of component, including message-driven beans
  

This book simplifies the creation of well-designed enterprise applications using the upgraded Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0 specification. Experienced Java platform mentors Gail Anderson and Paul Anderson use detailed code examples to introduce every key skill involved in creating components, stand-alone Java platform clients, and JavaServer Pages API clients. They introduce powerful EJB platform design patterns, and show how to apply them in real-world projects while avoiding critical errors in application design. Using actual business components, the authors show how to make the most of these key EJB component architecture features:

• Stateless and stateful session beans
  
• Entity beans with bean-managed persistence
  
• Entity beans with container-managed persistence
  
• Container-managed relationships
  
• Local and remote interfaces
  
• The Enterprise JavaBeans Query Language
  
• EJB 2.0 specification message driven beans
  

Each chapter includes a "Design Guidelines and Patterns" section designed to help you assess tradeoffs associated with your design decisions, and key point summaries that tie together important concepts. In short, Anderson and Anderson give you everything you need to build EJB 2.0 platform applications with maximum robustness, scalability, and performance.

Everything you need to take full advantage of the EJB 2.0 specification:

• Extensive code examples—real-world business components with just enough complexity to explain subtle design issues
  
• How to apply J2EE platform design patterns—Value Object, Data Access Object, Value List Iterator, and Session Fa¿ade Pattern
  
• Design guidelines for building distributed applications that avoid common pitfalls
  
• Expert insight into matching enterprise beans to application requirements
  
• Crystal-clear explanations of the key concepts that make EJB technology so powerful

Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 (5th Edition)

Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 (5th Edition)

As many Java developers and IS managers already know, Sun's powerful Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) technology offers an attractive option for developing server-side components. A suitable read for both managers and Java programmers, Enterprise JavaBeans provides a surprisingly clear and engaging introduction to designing and programming with EJBs.

The tour of the EJB component model presented here centers on several beans created and tested for a travel reservation system in a fictitious cruise ship company. The samples are just right in scale, large enough to test out key concepts in design and deployment, but small enough to be comprehensible, even to those who are not Java experts. The author pays close attention to the real-world issues of deployment with EJBs (as well as the differences among the vendor application servers that run them).

While there are enough details in Java syntax for designing both entity and session beans for the developer, sections on design here will please those who manage projects without delving much into code. Later, the author shows various ways to design entity and session beans. (For instance, entity beans can allow their bean containers to handle the details of connecting to a database, or they can do it themselves. This book demonstrates both approaches.) When it comes to session beans (which "wire" together entity beans to do real work), the author's introduction to managing state and transactions is also a standout. Tips for performance and reusability close out the book.

In all, Enterprise JavaBeans provides an engaging tour of one of the most promising component technologies. It's technically astute, but thoroughly approachable too, and can serve the needs of any manager or Java developer considering EJBs for future projects. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered: Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) basics, distributed architectures, Component Transaction Monitors (CTMs), bean-containers, home and remote bean interfaces, resource management, configuring EJB servers, entity beans, JNDI, container-managed and bean-managed persistence, session beans, stateless and stateful beans, transactions, design and performance hints.

Enterprise JavaBeans 2.1

Enterprise JavaBeans 2.1

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) is a server-side component model for transaction aware, distributed enterprise applications written in the Java programming language. Enterprise JavaBeans 2.1 details the architecture of the Enterprise JavaBeans component model. After an introduction to the component paradigm, the EJB architecture basics are introduced. Based on that, the different component types (Session-, Entity- and Message-Driven-Beans) are discussed in detail. An in-depth introduction to the Java Message Service (JMS) is provided to understand the ideas behind asynchronous and parallel processing provided through Message-Driven-Beans. Transactions, security, and the newly introduced timer service round up the book.

Enterprise JavaBeans 2.1 also discusses topics beyond the specification, e.g. inheritance, coupling of EJB components, quality assurance, and more. After reading this book, readers will know the benefits and the limits of EJB. The authors also impart the knowledge required for turning business requirements into EJB-based applications.

Enterprise JavaBeans (3rd Edition)

Enterprise JavaBeans (3rd Edition)


As many Java developers and IS managers already know, Sun's powerful Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) technology offers an attractive option for developing server-side components. A suitable read for both managers and Java programmers, Enterprise JavaBeans provides a surprisingly clear and engaging introduction to designing and programming with EJBs.

The tour of the EJB component model presented here centers on several beans created and tested for a travel reservation system in a fictitious cruise ship company. The samples are just right in scale, large enough to test out key concepts in design and deployment, but small enough to be comprehensible, even to those who are not Java experts. The author pays close attention to the real-world issues of deployment with EJBs (as well as the differences among the vendor application servers that run them).

While there are enough details in Java syntax for designing both entity and session beans for the developer, sections on design here will please those who manage projects without delving much into code. Later, the author shows various ways to design entity and session beans. (For instance, entity beans can allow their bean containers to handle the details of connecting to a database, or they can do it themselves. This book demonstrates both approaches.) When it comes to session beans (which "wire" together entity beans to do real work), the author's introduction to managing state and transactions is also a standout. Tips for performance and reusability close out the book.

In all, Enterprise JavaBeans provides an engaging tour of one of the most promising component technologies. It's technically astute, but thoroughly approachable too, and can serve the needs of any manager or Java developer considering EJBs for future projects. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered: Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) basics, distributed architectures, Component Transaction Monitors (CTMs), bean-containers, home and remote bean interfaces, resource management, configuring EJB servers, entity beans, JNDI, container-managed and bean-managed persistence, session beans, stateless and stateful beans, transactions, design and performance hints.

EJB Design Patterns: Advanced Patterns, Processes, and Idioms

EJB Design Patterns: Advanced Patterns, Processes, and Idioms

Proven techniques and patterns for enterprise development.

• Design guidelines for EJB 2.0 component architecture
  
• Powerful patterns for enterprise application design
  
• Extensive real-world code examples
  
• Covers every type of component, including message-driven beans
  

This book simplifies the creation of well-designed enterprise applications using the upgraded Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0 specification. Experienced Java platform mentors Gail Anderson and Paul Anderson use detailed code examples to introduce every key skill involved in creating components, stand-alone Java platform clients, and JavaServer Pages API clients. They introduce powerful EJB platform design patterns, and show how to apply them in real-world projects while avoiding critical errors in application design. Using actual business components, the authors show how to make the most of these key EJB component architecture features:

• Stateless and stateful session beans
  
• Entity beans with bean-managed persistence
  
• Entity beans with container-managed persistence
  
• Container-managed relationships
  
• Local and remote interfaces
  
• The Enterprise JavaBeans Query Language
  
• EJB 2.0 specification message driven beans
  

Each chapter includes a "Design Guidelines and Patterns" section designed to help you assess tradeoffs associated with your design decisions, and key point summaries that tie together important concepts. In short, Anderson and Anderson give you everything you need to build EJB 2.0 platform applications with maximum robustness, scalability, and performance.

Everything you need to take full advantage of the EJB 2.0 specification:

• Extensive code examples—real-world business components with just enough complexity to explain subtle design issues
  
• How to apply J2EE platform design patterns—Value Object, Data Access Object, Value List Iterator, and Session Fa¿ade Pattern
  
• Design guidelines for building distributed applications that avoid common pitfalls
  
• Expert insight into matching enterprise beans to application requirements
  
• Crystal-clear explanations of the key concepts that make EJB technology so powerful

EJB Cookbook

EJB Cookbook

Just as cookbooks contain step-by-step directions for creating different dishes, this book contains recipes for solving problems concerning Enterprise JavaBeans. Topics addressed range from simple, everyday issues to complex design issues using EJB patterns. Intended for developers with some EJB development experience, an understanding of the concepts of enterprise development and the basics of EJB programming is assumed. This book clearly addresses problems and issues and avoids the use of EJB keywords, making it ideal for developers who want quick solutions to frequent problems—or simply EJB development ideas. Easy-to-find recipes range from the common to the advanced and include techniques for securing a message-driven bean, generating EJB code, and improving an entity bean persistence layer.

EJB 3 in Action

EJB 3 in Action

EJB 3 in Action tackles EJB 3 and the Java Persistence API head-on, providing practical code samples, real-life scenarios, best practices, design patterns, and performance tuning tips. This book builds on the contributions and strengths of seminal technologies like Spring, Hibernate, and TopLink.

EJB 3 is the most important innovation introduced in Java EE 5.0. EJB 3 simplifies enterprise development, abandoning the complex EJB 2.x model in favor of a lightweight POJO framework. The new API represents a fresh perspective on EJB without sacrificing the mission of enabling business application developers to create robust, scalable, standards-based solutions.

EJB 3 in Action is a fast-paced tutorial, geared toward helping you learn EJB 3 and the Java Persistence API quickly and easily. For newcomers to EJB, this book provides a solid foundation in EJB. For the developer moving to EJB 3 from EJB 2, this book addresses the changes both in the EJB API and in the way the developer should approach EJB and persistence.

EJB & JSP: Java on the Edge

EJB & JSP: Java on the Edge


This book presents JSP and EJB to the HTML-savvy Java programmer, with a caveat: any Java developer interested indeveloping multi-tiered distributed applications needs to know something about a range of J2EE APIs. That said,knowing JSP will allow a programmer to create dynamic web content (easier than with Java Servlets) and knowing EJBwill allow a programmer to encapsulate data as objects and create reusable code components. In short, knowing JSPand EJB will take a programmer a good majority of the way along the path of J2EE application development.
The first section discusses J2EE in more depth, with special emphasis on how and where JSP and EJB fit in. The second section covers JavaServer Pages including numerous JSP examples. The book provides the JSP's for the main application developed and dissected, a hotel booking application. The final part covers Enterprise JavaBeans. The bulkof this section is creating and analyzing EJBs to work with the JSPs developed earlier in the book. By the end of the book, the hotel booking application is complete.

This Unlimited Edition stays up to date long after other publications. A companion Web site includes all the code and examples from the book, and is updated to include new chapters, programs, and other related material.

Bitter EJB

Bitter EJB

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) are the server-side core of J2EE application development. This guide discusses common programming problems (referred to as "antipatterns") encountered by developers when working with EJB. Although acknowledging EJB's shortcomings, the authors demonstrate that it may be applied effectively to build distributed, transactional, scalable systems that solve real problems. Coverage includes sessions, messaging APIs, persistence, and performance tuning. Tate is also the author of Bitter Java (2002).

Beginning EJB 3 Application Development: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: from Novice to Professional)

Beginning EJB 3 Application Development: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: from Novice to Professional)


EJB 3.0 has made huge advances in ease of development, and its drastically simplified programming model has been widely acclaimed. Targeted at Java and J2EE developers both with and without prior EJB experience, Beginning EJB 3 Application Development takes readers through the details of the EJB 3.0 architecture, and shows how EJB can be used to develop powerful, standards-based backend business logic. With 12 years of combined EJB experience, the authors offer many practical insights into the entire EJB architecture and cover all areas of the EJB 3.0 specification, including

• Complete exploration of all types of beans, from session beans to message-driven beans and entity beans
  
• A deep look at the new EJB 3 persistence and object-relational mapping mechanisms
  
• Application client integration
  
• Testing inside and outside the EJB container
  
• Comprehensive sample application with integrated EJB components
  
• Upgrade headaches--common issues encountered when migrating from EJB 2.1 to EJB 3.0
  

With Java and SQL under your belt, this book will teach you EJB 3 from the ground up. It provides a complete and practical roadmap to EJB 3 architecture and programming. And it covers upgrade issues that you'll encounter when migrating from EJB 2.1 to EJB 3.0, so it's highly relevant if you're already an EJB developer.

Sams Teach Yourself EJB in 21 Days

Sams Teach Yourself EJB in 21 Days



Sams Teach Yourself EJB in 21 Days introduces the development and deployment aspects of EJB, the fastest growing standards in developing Java applications in and enterprise environment. EJBs are, functionally, distributed network aware components for developing secure, scalable, transactional, and multi-user components in a J2EE environment. Sams Teach Yourself EJB in 21 Days covers the new features of EJB 2.0, such as local interface, CMP, and CMR. It provides hands-on examples based on practical solutions found in the industry. Tips and best practices give beginners an edge to avoid repeated mistakes. The review questions provide the reader with a study guide. Source code for a complete credit approval process in a transactional e-Commerce environment is provided.