J2EE Best Practices: Java Design Patterns, Automation, and Performance (Wiley Application Development Series)

Learn how to apply robust application design to your J2EE projects
There are a number of best practices you need to consider to build highly effective J2EE components and integrate them into applications. These practices include evaluating and selecting the right set of software components and services to handle the job.
In this book, Darren Broemmer supplies you with a set of best practices for J2EE development and then teaches you how to use them to construct an application architecture referred to as the reference architecture. The design and implementation of the reference architecture is based on a set of guiding principles that are used to optimize and automate J2EE development.
In addition to the author's thorough discussions of the latest technologies for J2EE implementation-including EJB 2, Jakarta Struts, Servlets, Java Server Pages, UML, design patterns, Common Business Logic Foundation components, and XML-Broemmer addresses such topics as:
* Understanding J2EE application architecture
* Building business applications with J2EE, a business object architecture, and extensible components created with design patterns
* Designing and implementing a sample banking Web application
* Integrating proven performance-engineering and optimization practices in the development process
* Using metadata-driven, configurable foundation components to automate much of the development and processing of Web-based business applications
The companion Web site contains the source code for a Common Business Logic Foundation and sample applications from the book, including a Jakarta Struts project and a banking application. Links to the Jakarta Struts frameworks and J2EE application servers such as BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere are also provided.

User review
Very Unhappy Reader
I am sorry, but this book is the biggest pile of crap I have seen in a longtime. The Sample code is very sloppy and over engineered. I honestly think the author needs to go back to CS101 and find out what the Framework is all about.

I rather burn the money than buying this book and waist my time.

User review
(May 6th, 2004) Need an update to Struts 1.1
This book is out of date. The struts examples use the perform method (version 1.0) and there has been a lot of changes from 1.0 to 1.1. Version 1.1 has been out in beta for 2 years now and officially for 1 year,,.

Forget about it for now and wait for a new edition with Struts 1.1.

User review
Best kept secret?
This is the best J2EE helper book period. I've been developing J2EE based applications for 2 years now and have read many books on the subject. Most of the J2EE books just repackage the specifications and write about common sense approaches.

J2EE Best Practices, will give you concrete information on how to use EJB 2.0 for the `real` world now!. You can and will use this book to ensure the success of your current EJB 2.0 project.

The material on CMR Entity beans is extremely valuable for anyone trying to implement Business Objects based on J2EE.

I use Cocoon for my Web Interface, but this book has some good info for Struts users as well.

Go to your nearest book store and get that edge you've been looking for. While your buddies are reading `Core J2EE', `Bitter EJB', `Expert One on One J2EE Design,,`, `Mastering J2EE,,`, etc,,.

User review
Read this book,,,,
Finally, a book that tells it like it is. The author points out the highs and lows of the J2EE architecture and provides countless practical and useful patterns for avoiding pitfalls in J2EE development. I've used several of his ideas already and have been extremely impressed with the included examples and clarity of the text. Additionally, there is much more detail in this book than I've found in other similar texts that seem to stop after explaining the basics.

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Build better Web-based business apps w/J2EE and Struts
Truly remarkable book. Lots of important nuggets of information in here. Good compliment to some of the other Java patterns and blueprints books out there. Author is someone who obviously spent time with J2EE and knows about software architecture. Nice to see how he used Struts in the sample app. too.