Preface
This book is both a practical guide and a quick reference for Java™ programmers who are writing enterprise applications. The world of enterprise development in the Java environment consists of a mix of standardized APIs and services and de facto standard tools and APIs that have been developed in the Java community. The first part of the book provides a fast-paced introduction to key standard Java enterprise principles and APIs: J2EE™ deployment, servlets, JavaServer Pages™ (JSPs), JavaServer™ Faces (JSF), Enterprise JavaBeans™ (EJB), XML, JDBC™, Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI), J2EE security principles, Java Message Service (JMS), SOAP web services, Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java IDL (CORBA), JavaMail™, and transactions. The second part of the book covers a select set of key de facto tools commonly used in Java enterprise development: Ant, JUnit, Cactus, Struts, Hibernate, and XDoclet.
What’s New in This Edition
The landscape of Java enterprise tools and APIs has evolved quite a bit in the three years since the second edition. As we were planning the third edition, we realized that the set of enterprise tools that developers found useful had settled into a mix of standard and de facto standard solutions. The standard solutions are APIs within the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE™) set of specifications, like JavaServer Pages and JDBC. The de facto standard solutions are APIs and tools developed by the open source community, ...
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