J2ee(tm) Connector Architecture and Enterprise Application Integration

Voluminous Standard Work "The J2EE tutorial" addresses readers with a certain level of preliminary knowledge of the Java Standard Edition and web application development. It does a remarkable job on covering the broad range of technologies, which lie under the hood of the J2EE 1.4 standard (JAXP, Servlets, JSP, JavaServer Faces, EJB, JAX-RPC/Webservices, JMS). Notwithstanding the quantity of subjects, the detail level is just fine for a good overview, while common issues are still being explained more in-depth. The chapters are arranged in a logical order, and guide the reader from basic to more advanced topics. Writing style, lots of cross-links as well as a high number of source code examples improve readbility and comprehensibility. Highly recommend as one of the best "one-covers-all" J2EE books. P.S. I refer to the second edition published in summer 2004.

I think some of the critics miss the point of a book like this. There are many excellent books about EJB and Servlet/JSP etc, but there are not many which show the precise details about how to get applications up and running on a specific platform.No, the tutorial doesn't address the higher-level issues of architecting and building working systems. I recommend Ed Roman's Mastering Enterprise Javabeans and/or Monson-Haefel's Enterprise Javabeans 3rd edition for that purpose. The latter book has a small series of platform-specific workbooks to handle the specifics, the best treatment of deployment which I have yet seen. But this book is good for getting you up and running. Of course you can always use the online version to stay up to date, so unless you prefer the dead-trees version (as I do) use that one....

The J2EE tutorial is an excellent book. If you want to know how to write a J2EE application this is the book. It takes you step by step. I have read 3 other books on JSP and this book has the best coverage for custom tags. The only negative thing I have to say is the deployment tool is a bit immature and things don't always work, as you'd expect. The J2EE tutorial team has been very helpful any time I had a question and answered email within a day. If you're interested in writing Internet software with Java, J2EE technology is the way to go and this book is must!

The J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA) is a very important standard API of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition. This book provides a well written and comprehensive treatment of JCA. I highly recommend it for any J2EE developer who needs to learn how to integrate enterprise information systems with J2EE application servers and components via the JCA.

This book covers the J2EE Connector architecture in a fairly good detail. The overall significance of Connector architecture in relation to the J2EE platform and Enterprise Application Integration has been presented well. The chapters are well structured, and separate out concepts needed by application developers and resource adpater vendors. Unlike some high-level EAI books, this book focuses on technical details and presents good examples and explanation of concepts. Chapters by vendors provide additional value. I recommend this book for those interested in knowing more about Java approach to EAI.