Product Description

The standard platform for enterprise application development has been EJB but the difficulties of working with it caused it to become unpopular. They also gave rise to lightweight technologies such as Hibernate, Spring, JDO, iBATIS and others, all of which allow the developer to work directly with the simpler POJOs. Now EJB version 3 solves the problems that gave EJB 2 a black eye-it too works with POJOs. POJOs in Action describes the new, easier ways to develop enterprise Java applications. It describes how to make key design decisions when developing business logic using POJOs, including how to organize and encapsulate the business logic, access the database, manage transactions, and handle database concurrency. This book is a new-generation Java applications guide: it enables readers to successfully build lightweight applications that are easier to develop, test, and maintain.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #260057 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

About the Author
Chris Richardson is a developer, architect and mentor with over 20 years of experience. He runs a consulting company that jumpstarts new development projects and helps teams that are frustrated with enterprise Java become more productive and successful. Chris has been a technical leader at a variety of companies including Insignia Solutions and BEA Systems. Chris holds a MA & BA in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge in England. He lives in Oakland, CA.

Customer Reviews

a classic
I bought this book back in 2006 and recently read it again. After having been putting its advice into practice for a couple of years I can say that it is first class for enterprise Java developers who work on database record orientated web applications.

It would be great if the author could get around to doing a 2nd edition to update things in light of JPA and annotation driven spring. The first edition does not suffer from predating JPA as it shows how to use either JDO or hiberante so it is straight forward to apply its principles and techniques when using JPA. Likewise the xml spring configurations it uses are probably easier to explain to someone new to spring who will find it easy to move onto using annotations to configure large parts of spring.

I published a demo ajax driven web application as a front-end to the example source code from this book which can no doubt be found with any good search engine.

Excellent Book!
This book is excellent and should be read by every Java enterprise developer who is interested in really understanding:

- How to organise business logic using a proper domain model
- What are the differences to the usual procedure based approaches we tend to use.
- How to leverage Spring and ORM frameworks in the solution.

The book deals with other important subjects, for example, transaction management, object locking and testing.

If you've read Fowler Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture and/or Eric Evans Domain Driven Design and didn't really `get it', then this book puts it all together in a meaningful way! For me, the light finally switched on in my brain!

Won't tell you everything about Spring, JDO or Hibernate, but you'll see where they fit in.

Buy this book!