This book is a Developer's Guide, covering the ins and outs of developing Java EE 5 applications deployed to the standards-compliant, high performance GlassFish application server.
GlassFish is a free, open-source Java EE 5-compliant application server that is quickly gaining massive popularity.
This book explains GlassFish installation and configuration, and then moves on to Java EE 5 application development, covering all major Java EE 5 APIs.
Chapter 1 provides an overview of Glassfish, including how to install it, configure it, and verify the installation.
Chapter 2 covers how to develop server-side web applications using the Servlet API.
Chapter 3 explains how to develop web applications using JavaServer Pages (JSPs), including how to develop and use JSP custom tags.
Chapter 4 discusses how to develop Java EE applications that interact with a relational database system through the Java Persistence API (JPA) and through the Java Database Connectivity API (JDBC).
Chapter 5 explains how to use the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) when developing JavaServer Pages.
Chapter 6 covers how to develop applications using the JavaServer Faces (JSF) component framework to build web applications.
Chapter 7 explains how to develop messaging applications though the Java Messaging Service (JMS) API.
Chapter 8 covers securing J2EE applications through the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS).
Chapter 9 discusses how to develop Enterprise Java Beans that adhere to the EJB 3 specification.
Chapter 10 explains how to develop and deploy web services that conform to the JAX-WS 2.1 specification.
Chapter 11 covers frameworks that build on top of the Java EE 5 specification, including Seam, Facelets, and Ajax4Jsf.
The appendices cover some of the advanced features of the GlassFish server.
Concise guide covering all major aspects of Java EE 5 development
Uses the enterprise open-source GlassFish application server
Explains GlassFish installation and configuration
Covers all major Java EE 5 APIs
The book aims to speed up the reader in Java EE 5 development. All major Java EE 5 APIs and the details of the GlassFish server are covered followed by examples of its use.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - excellent Java EE 5 dev tutorial with GlassFish
In under 400 pages, the author managed to do a pretty good job at introducing both what's in Java EE 5 and using it on GlassFish.
If you already know EE and GlassFish and want a specific topic covered in details, then you're probably better off picking a book on just that. Again, this book has JSF, JMS, EJBs, security, web services, and so on, but just enough to cover what most people will want and still keep it in a manageable number of pages.
Rating: - Not just an intro to Glassfish, a topic-by-topic summary of Java EE 5
I concur with the readers who say this book isn't just an "intro to Glassfish", that it's more of a "summary of the components of the Java EE 5 specification with emphasis on how to configure and use those components specifically with Glassfish". And that was just fine with me, because I was kind of looking for both, and in this book I got both.
We considered Glassfish as a platform of choice for deployment of a revised/updated version of a sample application (for a new edition of a book). ... Read More
Rating: - Disappointing
I had pretty high hopes for this book but I'm pretty bummed out. It seems well written and I'm sure it is good for some people but just about everything in this book is available for free elsewhere. I wanted a book about GlassFish and really specific stuff like configuring a domain *in detail* and not a recap on how to run the basic commands. JNDI in GlassFish - I don't think it's covered. Writing applications with the Java Web Start and the nice appclient utility - not covered. Sure, most of that ... Read More
Rating: - concise overview of Java Enterprise Edition
I do have to agree with others who remarked that the book is not a comprehensive discussion of GlassFish. In this respect, it is somewhat of a downer. But, perhaps albeit inadvertantly, its best merit is elsewhere.
Over the years, the Java world has grown hugely from just the Java language. Roughly, the latter is more or less J2SE. But in the J2EE field, or what Sun seems to just be calling EE, many extra layers of code and packages have been added. Entire books have been written on each of ... Read More
Rating: - Book Review: Java EE 5 Development using GlassFish Application Server
My overall opinion of the book is good. The book is very well written, and the code examples in the book work. Working code examples are the number one criteria for me. The code examples start with some examples in Chapter 2 that are used throughout the remainder of the book. This provides a coherent flow through the book. You may also download the code examples from the Packt Publishing support site.
I would recommend it as a book to have on your development bookshelf.
- excellent Java EE 5 dev tutorial with GlassFish
- Not just an intro to Glassfish, a topic-by-topic summary of Java EE 5
- Disappointing
- Book Review: Java EE 5 Development using GlassFish Application Server
