Building Java Enterprise Applications: Architecture

This book will not teach you all the nitty gritty of J2EE. It will, however, explain when to use what part of the APIs. It goes through a lot of the different parts of J2EE.For me it was a good overview. I started coding J2EE by going in deep from the start. If this book would've been available when I was learning the technology, my path to understanding it all would've been shorter.I especially liked the way the author builds the different elements together to construct a system. It shows how they mix.

I bought this book specifically because it used building an LDAP solution to illustrate how to build Java applications. It fulfilled my expectations in that regard because the material went deep into details. If your sole goal was to learn LDAP and how to employ it as an enterprise solution this book would be worth its weight in gold. However, it also exceeded my expectations in every other respect. First, the author's approach reflects the best practices in software engineering - not merely development. Interwoven throughout are reuse, architecture first approach, business considerations, and a wealth of material on data modeling.Second, every facet of enterprise application development is addressed, including performance issues, deployment and support considerations and each layer in a typical architecture. This book will give you all of the technical details necessary to build enterprise-wide Java applications, as well as provide you with excellent advice on software engineering and enterprise architectures. SInce this book follows a storyline, I'm eagerly awaiting the other volumes that are supposed to follow this one.

This was a timely find - just the book I required for an accelerated introduction to j2ee and related enterprise-oriented technologies. With five years of JAVA programming under my belt, responsible for the java-based technologies supporting our in-house web server farm and now on the doorstep of a j2ee consulting endeavor, I'm finding this book to be invaluable. Definitely a comprehendable guide, clearly illustrating the implementation of a j2ee project from concept thru implementation. Probably the best in my collection thus far (which includes the latest on JSP and EJB from Wrox, the Core and Advanced from PH and the Sun j2ee platform books from Addison Wesley). Will be on the lookout for the second volume in the series!

This book kept me absorbed from first to the end. I learnt lot of interesting and important stuff otherwise, I would have missed in my design. The book begins with an imaginary organization in need of computerization. Author starts with data modelling, how we could use LDAP to authentication to authorization, ejb components and usage and finally using an example of JMS. Lots of trips and techniques of good design is illustrated. The author gradually improves the design from previous chapters and and also keep changing the code accordingly. I am glad I bought this book and I am eager to see the next two book in the series.

I have been programming with Java for over 6 years now and have been teaching Java, J2EE for almost just as long. In my role as lead developer, architect, teacher, and mentor, I am always looking for good books that I can recommend that really teaches people how to write good code. In the J2EE arena, I've had two favorites that I always recommend - Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies by Deepak Alur and Designing Enterprise Applications with the J2EE Platform by Inderjeet Singh. I love the way those books are written and I find the same traits in this book. I'm going to have to add this book that list as Brett has written a great book. In the 1st book of the 3-book series, Brett walks the reader through the architectural issues developers typically face when they start on a new project. The 2nd book in this series will deal with Web Applications and the 3rd book will deal with the concept of Web Services. The book starts off where the developer(s), working for a fictional company gets a set of requirement for an application. As you read the book, you go through all of the steps of the software development process and discovering how the different J2EE technologies work together to make up the final solution. The book is aimed at experienced developers who don't mind wading through hundreds of lines of code. The goal here is to explore and understand concept using code and is not meant for the uninitiated. The author arms the readers with tips, tricks, techniques that make up a good design based on real-world experience which makes this book a really good resource for any enterprise developer.