August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
348 pages
8h 51m
English
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Preface
It is never too late to become reasonable and wise; but if the insight comes late, there is always more difficulty in starting the change.
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Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
I began writing the first edition of this book in May 1996 as Java™ celebrated one of its first major rites of passage, the inaugural JavaOne conference. The conference’s underlying theme was Java’s transition from an applet language to a hard-core computing environment. In the time since that conference, that promise has become a reality. This book captures a small piece of that reality: Java as a language for enterprise computing.
Enterprise computing, a vague term used mostly to sell business systems development products, traditionally refers to the mission-critical systems on which a business depends. It almost always includes a database. At the heart of Java’s enterprise computing philosophy is the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform and its two platforms by APIs: Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC). Older languages require third-party APIs to provide this kind of support. Java, on the other hand, includes these features in the central Java enterprise distribution that you will find on every Java platform. As a developer, you can write distributed applications that run against relational databases and know that those applications will run on any system on which you deploy them.
What exactly are these APIs? JDBC—the basic component of this book—enables ...
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