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Enterprise JavaBeans, Fourth Edition
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Enterprise JavaBeans, Fourth Edition

by Sacha Labourey, Bill Burke, Richard Monson-Haefel
June 2004
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
792 pages
23h 17m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Preface

Author’s Note

In the winter of 1997, I was consulting on an e-commerce project that was using Java RMI. Not surprisingly, the project failed because Java RMI didn’t address performance, scalability, failover, security, or transactions, all of which are vital in a production environment. Although the outcome of that project is not unique to Java RMI—I have seen the same thing happen with CORBA—the timing of the project was especially interesting. Enterprise JavaBeans was first introduced by Sun Microsystems at around that time, and had Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) been available earlier, that same project probably would have succeeded.

At the time I was working on that ill-fated Java RMI project, I was also writing a column for JavaReport Online called “The Cutting Edge.” The column covered what were then new Java technologies such as the Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) and the JavaMail API. I was actually looking for a new topic for the third installment of “The Cutting Edge” when I discovered the first public draft of Enterprise JavaBeans, Version 0.8. I had originally heard about this technology in 1996, but this was the first time that public documentation had been made available. Having worked on CORBA, Java RMI, and other distributed object technologies, I knew a good thing when I saw it and immediately began writing an article about this new technology.

That seems like eons ago. Since I published that article in March 1998, literally thousands of articles ...

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