Beginning Java EE 5: From Novice to Professional

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Sun's new lightweight Java Enterprise Edition (EE) 5 is an extremely powerful platform for developing enterprise-level Java-based applications, primarily for the server. This book shows you how to harness that power, examining how the pieces of the new Java EE 5 platform fit together, including the redesigned annotations-driven EJB 3 spec as well as JavaServer Faces (JSF), integrated into the platform for the first time.

Hands-on tutorials are also included, along with clear explanations and working code examples. You will grow to take the next step - from writing client-side desktop applications to writing enterprise applications. You will also learn how to use the individual APIs and tools in the Java EE 5 platform, and how to merge these to create your own enterprise applications.

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Beginning Java EE 5
From Novice to Professional
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Kevin Mukhar and Chris Zelenak
with James L. Weaver and Jim Crume
Beginning Java EE 5: From Novice to Professional
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Contents at a Glance
About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
About the Technical Reviewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
■CHAPTER 1 Java EE Essentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
■CHAPTER 2 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
■CHAPTER 3 JavaServer Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
■CHAPTER 4 Advanced JSP Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
■CHAPTER 5 JavaServer Faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
■CHAPTER 6 Servlets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
■CHAPTER 7 Working with Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
■CHAPTER 8 Advanced Topics in JDBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
■CHAPTER 9 EJB Fundamentals and Session Beans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
■CHAPTER 10 EJB Entity Beans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
■CHAPTER 11 EJB Relationships, EJB QL, and JDBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
■CHAPTER 12 Design Patterns and EJB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
■CHAPTER 13 Message-Driven Beans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
■CHAPTER 14 Web Services and JAX-WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
■APPENDIX A Tomcat: Who Needs Java EE 5? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
■APPENDIX B SQL and EJB QL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585
■APPENDIX C Java EE Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607
■INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615