Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #794963 in Books
• Published on: 1999-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1168 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Wrox specialise in books written by programmers, for programmers. This latest volume on developing Java- based web applications is no different. All 12 authors are developers and consultants--including some who have been part of Sun's own Java team.

The Web is becoming more and more a way of delivering applications, rather than just static Web pages. Java is becoming more and more popular as a tool for building Web applications, thanks to Java servlets and Java Server Pages. Professional Java Server Programming is a big book full of code samples and of real world experience.

Starting with a grounding in Web application development and technologies, the book introduces the various concepts of using Java to deliver Web content--as well as helping to give you the tools you need to work around the limitations of Web servers and Web browsers. You'll also learn how to develop complex database driven applications and how to make the work faster. As this is a book on the cutting edge of Java development, you'll also find sections on using Java with XML documents and LAP directory servers, as well as Enterprise Java Beans. There's even a good look at the next generation of Java technologies--Jini and Java Spaces, with a look at how these can be used in Web applications.

This is a superb and extremely practical book. If you're building Java-based Web server applications, this is a book you need to have next to your terminal, if only for the 300 pages of reference material in the Appendices! --Simon Bisson

Synopsis
An overview of the new server-side Java platform - Java 2 Enterprise Edition - as it relates to building n-tier web applications. It covers the building blocks (Servlets, JSP, EJB, JDBC, RMI, JNDI, CORBA) then goes into special design considerations for server side programming, (including resource pooling and component based design) before finally discussing future possibilities opened up by Jini and JavaSpaces technology. In a world where, increasingly, corporate IT development is Web application development - ASP, PHP, CGI and ISAPI are all viable options.Now, so is the Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition, and that's good news because server-side Java is portable across Windows, Linux, UNIX and MacOS and compatible with a wide range of Web Servers (IIS, Apache, Netscape Enterprise Server) and Application Servers from Sun, IBM and others. What does all this mean for you? Java provides technologies to allow for server side processing, dynamic page content generation and dynamic presentation. With these comprehensive, platform independent Java class libraries you can join together the disparate pieces of your business - data, applications and platforms - to form a coherent whole. Java 2 Enterprise Edition - announced by Sun in June 1999 - makes Java an entire platform, not just another language and this is the first book that seriously covers it. Online discussion of the topics in this book available at Wrox's P2P site. This book is aimed at developers who are familiar with the Java programming language and have some experience of web technologies. Whether you are coding from scratch, creating web components or adding a web front end to an existing application, there is something here for you.

About the Author
Wrox has assembled a team of Java experts to give you access to their considerable professional experience in one unique book.
Between them these 15 authors have close to 75 man-years of object-oriented programming and Java experience, own three software companies and participate in the development of the Servlet API and JavaServer Pages specifications.

Customer Reviews

concepts useful but content out of date
I would advise against buying this book.

it came out two years ago and has not been revised since.

The java specification has moved on a lot since then and you will find the book referencing packages and classes which no longer exist in the current Java libraries.

I would recommend getting hold of something more up to date.

Given the time it takes to get a book through writing, proof-reading ...and publishing you will run accross this sometimes, but this one's pretty glaring.

I hav'nt looked at the J2EE wrox book, but you'd probably be better off with that one. Or better still, get something by O'Reilly, they are generally better written...

Very Very Very good one
If you have purchased any of Wrox publications before you won't be too surprised at this one. It is extremely comprehensive and well laid out. The only problem I have is that it is probably too advanced for your average programmer. The people who write these books are extremely intelligent, and write very concise code - may be too concise for the average Joe. Some of the examples given are also confusing. But generally you won't be dissapointed

Lots of detail on a wide variety of technologies
On the whole the book is well worth while. There are a number of issues however... There are quite a lot of typos and minor mistakes. There is sometimes a tendency to become bogged down in the details before giving a sufficiently clear overview. On a number of occasions acronyms are used without once giving their meanings (eg Jini). Still given those gripes there's remains much to recommend this book.