March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
8h 58m
English
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Java has become a confusing world. Five years ago, there were few decisions to make once you started programming in Java—you used AWT for graphical user interfaces, sockets for network programming, and hacked together everything else you needed. Since then, though, the APIs available for the Java language have grown, and grown. . . and grown. Now you can dabble in Swing, servlets, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), JavaMail, and more. Additionally, there are now packages of APIs, like the Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). While these packages seem to be nicely wrapped bundles of useful APIs, they don’t help the average developer figure out how to piece together the APIs contained in these packages. Though it’s simple to find documentation on the individual APIs, getting the “big picture” is difficult, at best. One of the most interesting, but difficult, aspects of Java today is building Java enterprise applications using the J2EE package.
All of this has led the folks at O’Reilly to be interested in a book specifically focused on building enterprise applications with these APIs. Instead of small, piecemeal examples, we’ve found that readers want large applications built from the ground up, and explanations of design decisions. Additionally, readers have been adamant about seeing more than just the Java part of the picture; they want to know how to set up a database, and get an LDAP store running, and integrate these. How does ...
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