Java Enterprise Best Practices

What’s in This Book?

We’ve tried to cover as many useful J2EE APIs as possible. That being said, we haven’t included all of them, sometimes because we felt that the API isn’t in widespread use, and sometimes because there just wasn’t much to say about it. However, the majority of the central J2EE APIs are represented in this book.

This book consists of 10 additional chapters:

EJB Best Practices by Sasha Nikolic, EJB author

Chapter 2 contains important information on how to effectively develop and deploy Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs).

Servlet Best Practices by Jason Hunter, author of Java Servlet Programming

Chapter 3 has tips and tricks from one of O’Reilly’s bestselling authors on how to efficiently work with servlets and frameworks.

JDBC Best Practices by George Reese, author of Database Programming with JDBC

Chapter 4 includes wisdom on configuring, storing, and retrieving information from various databases using the latest version of JDBC.

XML Best Practices by Brett McLaughlin, author of Java and XML and O’Reilly editor

Chapter 5 contains practical advice on structuring XML, as well as using both the SAX and DOM APIs. Brett also covers using the new JAXP APIs in some detail.

RMI Best Practices by William Grosso, author of Java RMI

Chapter 6 includes a plethora of tips for making sure you don’t pull your hair out working with Java’s Remote Method Invocation (RMI).

Java Management Extensions by J. Steven Perry, author of Java Management Extensions

In Chapter 7, our newest Java ...