Building Java Enterprise Applications, Vol. 1: Architecture (O'Reilly Java)

✍ Scribed by Brett McLaughlin

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 274
• Series: O'Reilly Java
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

After reading the synopsis I was ready to delve into some planning and best practices reading material. While the book focuses on a core example, it doesn't not provide enough information on WHY certain decisions were made and does not provide enough look into alternatives.

The book would be much more valuable if it focused less on one concrete example and took a step upwards into what I mistook the synopsis and title for: "Making Strategic and Technology/Business-Driven Decisions in Your Java Applications".

Aside from misinterpreting the content of the book, the general content lacked. Even though providing a path down a single sample, there was far too little focus on how to go about building Java Enterprise applications and too much focus on explaining the code. While the author tried to keep succinct, he did not touch on the core principals and theories enough.

I recommend the book only for casual, quick reading as it is out-dated (due to the EJB 2 topics covered) and does not dive into the real core of planning application life cycles.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 3
Organization......Page 5
Conventions Used in This Book......Page 7
Comments and Questions......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 9
1.1 Building Java Enterprise Applications......Page 10
1.2 Architecture......Page 12
1.3 What You'll Need......Page 14
2.1 Forethought Brokerage......Page 17
2.2 The Data Layer......Page 23
2.3 The Business Layer......Page 27
2.4 The Presentation Layer......Page 30
2.6 What's Next?......Page 31
3.1 Designing the Data Stores......Page 32
3.2 Databases......Page 41
3.3 Directory Servers......Page 51
3.4 What's Next?......Page 59
4.1 Basic Design Patterns......Page 60
4.2 Coding the Bean......Page 61
4.3 Deploying the Bean......Page 70
4.4 What's Next?......Page 73
5.1 IDs, Sequences, and CMP......Page 74
5.2 Details, Details, Details......Page 89
5.3 Data Modeling......Page 93
5.5 What's Next?......Page 95
6.1 Managers and Entities......Page 96
6.2 The LDAPManager Class......Page 102
6.3 What's Next?......Page 123
7.1 Odds and Ends......Page 124
7.2 Checkpoint......Page 132
7.3 Populating the Data Stores......Page 134
7.4 What's Next?......Page 139
8.1 The Façade Pattern......Page 141
8.2 The UserManager......Page 148
8.3 State Design......Page 156
8.4 What's Next?......Page 167
9.1 Messaging on the Server......Page 168
9.2 Messaging on the Client......Page 176
9.3 Packaging......Page 179
9.4 What's Next?......Page 182
10.1 Flexibility......Page 183
10.2 Decision Point......Page 186
10.3 What's Next?......Page 187
A. SQL Scripts......Page 189
A.1 The User Store......Page 190
A.2 The Accounts Store......Page 195
A.3 Events and Scheduling......Page 200
A.4 Starting Over......Page 202
A.5 Primary Keys......Page 205
A.6 Creating Types......Page 208
B.1 Cloudscape......Page 210
B.2 InstantDB......Page 212
B.3 MySQL......Page 214
B.4 Oracle......Page 215
B.5 PostgreSQL......Page 217
C.1 iPlanet......Page 219
C.2 OpenLDAP......Page 225
D.1 BEA Weblogic......Page 229
E.1 Entity Beans......Page 232
E.2 Application Exceptions......Page 271
Colophon......Page 274