Authors Spielman and Kunnumpurath have spent hours coding the new features of J2EE 1.4so that you can catapult the examples into your own development projects without spinning extra cycles. This book will shape your understanding of intricate, complex J2EE 1.4 development. It is packed with real-world experience, best practices, and plenty of code, so you can move forward with your project, using the latest and greatest J2EE 1.4 functionality.
Pro J2EE 1.4 runs the gamut, from building industrial-strength Web applications with advanced Servlets 2.4, to using custom actions in JSP 2.0. The authors also provide details on all aspects of EJBs, like session, entity, message beans, and container services. Once youve built a J2EE application using this book, youll look at managing applications, components and resources, as well as J2EE deployment issues. Eventually, this book will become your well-worn reference guide, kept open continually upon your desk.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Good for a J2EE novice - more focus on the front end
Lots of editing mistakes - could have been a lot better only if there were lesser errors in the code as well as explanations. Also they need to focus more on the back end J2EE equally well as they have done for JSP/jstl/servlets. Hope they do a better job with the JEE 5 release.
Rating: - a massive overlayer
Regular Java is at version 1.4 going onto 1.5. But from the earliest versions, many optional classes were added to the core Java to form J2EE. Now this book gives you a lengthy description of the bulk of J2EE 1.4. You can see that J2EE revolves around the Web, not the Internet. For the latter, the low level network communications classes in the core Java suffice. But at the level of the Web, we have web servers, often making dynamic web pages using JSPs and Servlets. The importance of these is shown ... Read More
Rating: - Surprising front-end centric balance
I was surprised by how much material there is on the front-end of the J2EE equation. About half the book is spent on the front end with excellent chapters on JSP 2.0, JSTL, Servlets and front-end security.
Attention is also paid to the back end. Chapter 11, which weighs in at 50 pages out of 900, is on EJBs and the various O/R mapping and persistence objects. The back end coverage then continues on with chapters on messaging, XML processing, and web services.
Rating: - Very simple
Professional to Expert? Only an overview on the j2ee.
I am wondering about the contents of the "beginner to professional" book...
Give it a try if u want to have a light explanation on j2ee key tecs.
Example: the chapter Using EJB Container Services starts from page 621 and ends at page 653. Everyone knows that arguments like Security services, Transaction Services, Scheduling, Instance pooling and caching worth more than 30 pages...
J2EE bible is still the best tutorial/reference ... Read More
- a massive overlayer
- Very simple
