Beginning EJB 3: Java EE 7 Edition

Beginning EJB 3: Java EE 7 Edition

by Jonathan Wetherbee, Chirag Rathod, Raghu Kodali, Peter Zadrozny
     
 

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Develop powerful, standards-based, back-end business logic with Beginning EJB 3, Java EE 7 Edition. Led by an author team with 20 years of combined Enterprise JavaBeans experience, you'll learn how to use the new EJB 3.2 APIs. You'll gain the knowledge and skills you’ll need to create the complex enterprise applications that run

Overview

Develop powerful, standards-based, back-end business logic with Beginning EJB 3, Java EE 7 Edition. Led by an author team with 20 years of combined Enterprise JavaBeans experience, you'll learn how to use the new EJB 3.2 APIs. You'll gain the knowledge and skills you’ll need to create the complex enterprise applications that run today's transactions and more.

Targeted at Java and Java EE developers, with and without prior EJB experience, Beginning EJB 3 is packed with practical insights, strategy tips, and code examples. As each chapter unfolds, you'll not only explore a new area of the spec; you'll also see how you can apply it to your own applications through specific examples.

Beginning EJB 3 will serve not only as a reference, but it will also function as a how-to guide and repository of practical examples to which you can refer as you build your own applications. It will help you harness the power of EJBs and take your Java EE 7 development to the next level.

What you’ll learn

  • How to employ session beans, message-driven beans, and entity beans
  • How to use the updated EJB 3 persistence and object-relational mappings
  • How to choose which EJB option is right for your application
  • How to enrich your application’s behavior with CDI services
  • How to test the EJB container inside and out
  • How to migrate from older EJB to the newest EJB APIs

    Who this book is for

    This book is for those Java and Java EE developers with and without prior EJB experience.

    Table of Contents

    1. Introduction to the EJB 3 Architecture
    2. Session Beans
    3. Entities and the Java Persistence API
    4. Advanced Persistence Features
    5. Message-Driven Beans
    6. EJB and Web Services
    7. Integrating Session Beans, Entities, Message-Driven Beans, and Web Services
    8. Transaction Management
    9. EJB Performance and Testing
    10. Context and Dependency Injection (CDI)
    11. Packaging and Deployment
    12. EJB Client Applications
    13. EJB Runtime Environments


  • Product Details

    ISBN-13:
    9781430246923
    Publisher:
    Apress
    Publication date:
    04/23/2013
    Edition description:
    2nd ed. 2013
    Pages:
    452
    Sales rank:
    1,265,969
    Product dimensions:
    7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

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    Meet the Author

    Jonathan Wetherbee is a consulting engineer and tech lead for EJB development tools on Oracle's JDeveloper IDE. He has over 20 years of experience in development at Oracle, working on a variety of O/R mapping tools and overseeing Oracle's core EJB toolset since EJB 1.1. Most recently, Jon has been responsible for the design and development of EJB and JPA data binding solutions for ADF, Oracle's application development framework.

    Prior to joining the JDeveloper project, Jon was a product manager for Oracle's CASE (computer-aided software engineering) tools and worked on early object-relational frameworks. He received a patent in 1999 for his work on integrating relational databases in an object-oriented environment. Jon is coauthor of the first edition of this book, "Beginning EJB 3 Application Development: From Novice to Professional," and has published articles online in Java Developer's Journal and Oracle Technical Network. He enjoys speaking, and has given talks at conferences and developer groups, including Oracle's iDevelop (Bangalore, Taipei), The Server Side Java Symposium (Barcelona), and various Java user groups. Jon holds a Bachelor of Science degree in cognitive science from Brown University.

    Raghu R. Kodali is a consulting product manager and service-oriented architecture (SOA) evangelist for Oracle Application Server. He has worked in the software industry for over 10 years as a developer, consultant, and presales engineer in emerging technologies. He is responsible for J2EE features with expertise in SOA technologies like EJB, Web Services, and application development frameworks. Raghu has been the lead product manager for EJB design-time features in Oracle JDeveloper since the EJB 1.1 specification. His current area of focus is evangelizing service-oriented infrastructure and implementing service-oriented applications.

    Prior to product management, Raghu held presales and marketing positions in Oracle Asia Pacific. Before joining Oracle, he worked as a software developer in Singapore. Raghu is frequent presenter at number of technology conferences such as Oracle Open World, Java One, Java Zone, JAOO, and Sun Technology Days. He holds a master's degree in computer applications.

    Chirag Rathod is a Principal Engineer responsible for developing and supporting design time features for EJB and CDI in Oracle's JDeveloper IDE. He has over 13 years of experience in developing Development Tools. Prior to joining the JDeveloper IDE team, he has helped develop Oracle s flagship products like Oracle SQL*Plus, Oracle Forms and Oracle Designer. Chirag received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from The Faculty of Technology and Engineering, Maharaja Sayajirao University.

    Peter Zadrozny is an independent consultant specialized in big data, software performance, and architecture. He is also a lecturer on big data topics at San Jose State University. He has held various executive and technical roles in many countries around the world for startups as well as Fortune 500 companies. He started the operations of WebLogic in Europe and Sun Microsystems in Mexico. He is an accomplished author with various successful books, a magazine, and was an original contributor to The Grinder, a popular open source project.

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