Developing Java Enterprise Applications [With *]

This book is well designed and well written. It covers every topic needed for Java Enterprise Development. Topics like Java Message Service and Java Mail are covered quite extensively, not to mention JSP, XML, and Enterprise JavaBeans. Every topic needed to do real Java Enterprise development is here in this book.Each topic has several chapters dedicated to that subject as well as an application chapter which builds on previous chapters. Each chapter shows the needed diagrams and code samples to build the required implementation. Chapter 11 shows how to create a basic JSP Bug Tracking tool, which is one of my future projects that I am interested in doing.This book will make a great reference manual because it is well laid out and the index is extremely accurate. The book does have a lot of tables, diagrams, and code samples. The tables describe the methods, properties, attributes and packages covered in the book. ** I would highly recommend this book to an intermediate to advanced Java Programmer looking to do enterprise level development work. I rate this book at 4.5 stars.JerryMember of Colajug - www.colajug.org

This book is very solid and shouldn't be taken by beginners in Enterprise JAVA... after the Nutshell this should be the next step.Must see TV for Distributed JAVA Programmers... it has a very hard to find chapter about JMS.I recommend it.

I was called on by my company to develop a servlet application that uses jndi to interface an LDAP database. While I had done done previous work with servlets, I had no experience with jndi. Buying this book definitely paid off -- the chapter on jndi helped immensely and the chapters on servlets provide the information that is required for most servlet implementations (if you need to know all the sordid details about servlets, buy one of the books that specializes in servlet development).This book worked for me -- I'd definitely recommend it.

This book provides an excellent overview of the core Enterprise Java technologies for building 3 & N-tier application servers. Though it does not go into too much depth, it did provide enough information (sample code sniplets) and understanding of how each of these technologies play within a distributed OO application service - JMS, JTS, EJB, JavaServerPages, Servlets, and JDBC. Each chapter provides useful information about the technology and its role in an enterprise application.Although there are many sources that will provide you with the same kinds of information on JMS, JTS, EJB, ... this book is a very nice single source reference for all these technologies.If you are new to Enterprise Java or simply need an overview of how all these technologies play together in a distributed intra/internet application server - this is a good book to start with.

It covers the most important Java APIs that the enterprise developer who uses Java. The books covers JDBC, RMI, JNDI, JTS, JMS, JSP, EJB, and a few other technologies. The book tends to alternate between explanatory and example chapters. So first, JDBC is discussed and then the next chapter walks through an example.Given the number of topics in this book, each topic is not covered in full detail as most of the topics are worthy of a book all their own (and many of them already have one). However, this book's goal is to cover just enough so you can understand the technology and get started using its core features. Therefore, this makes the book excellent for trying to figure what these technologies do. In fact, this book is readable by managers as well as developers, if the managers skip the example chapters.From reading this book, you get the impression that the authors have quite a bit of experience, have used the technologies discussed, and know what they are talking about. On the whole, this is a great book for getting your feet wet with Enterprise Java.