Product Description

BEA's WebLogic is widely recognized as the de facto industry standard for developing and deploying industrial strength Java E-commerce applications. Now, there's a book that delivers authoritative guidance for J2EE application development with WebLogic. Authored by members of BEA's WebLogic project team, this book covers every aspect of real-world WebLogic J2EE development, from start to finish, through an industrial-strength case study application. The authors start by introducing BEA WebLogic and walking through deploying it. Next, you'll learn practical techniques for designing robust, high-performance J2EE applications with WebLogic; building presentation logic with WebLogic servlets and JavaServer Pages; accessing databases with JDBC; implementing transactions; and more. The accompanying CD-ROM includes all code from the book, including a complete WebAuction application, as well as a complete evaluation version of the latest version of the BEA WebLogic server.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1417665 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 720 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
BEA WebLogic Server is the 600-pound gorilla of Java e-commerce development. It's a pure play graphical Java development environment, which makes the inclusion of J2EE in the title of J2EE Applications and BEA WebLogic Server a little redundant (what else would you choose to use?).

The authors illustrate the development process with a fictional auction site application. The various development phases are distributed over 15 dedicated chapters covering the usual suspects: presentation logic, JavaServer pages, databases with JDBC and JTA, RMI, JMS and so on. The discussions and examples are lucid with high production values and lots of attention to detail. Nothing is skimmed over from coping with people who don't accept cookies to dealing with problems when serialising data and hardening code against unreliable networks.

Overall J2EE Applications and BEA WebLogic Server proved surprisingly readable and--after a somewhat pretentious start--focuses down hard on actually working with BEA WebLogic Server to create reliable, efficient apps. The accompanying CD contains an evaluation version of BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 (registration required to unlock it) plus much more code than is included in the book itself. You'll see references to sample code on the CD in each chapter.

While clearly not a title for everyone, J2EE Applications and BEA WebLogic Server is an effective budget way to evaluate BEA WebLogic Server or to gain experience with it. --Steve Patient

From the Back Cover

• Authoritative guidance and high-performance code—straight from BEA WebLogic's product team!
• Step-by-step, example-rich coverage of every major J2EE API
• Case study: Build a complete e-Commerce application from scratch
• CD-ROM: Complete BEA WebLogic Server 6evaluation version, plus extensive code library

The insider's guide to J2EE development with the world's #1 Java application server—BEA WebLogic Server 6!

BEA's WebLogic Server is the de facto industry standard for developing and deploying industrial strength Java E-commerce applications. This book delivers authoritative guidance for J2EE application development with the most powerful version of WebLogic ever: WebLogic Server 6. Authored by members of BEA's WebLogic project team, the book covers every aspect of real-world WebLogic J2EE development, from start to finish, through an industrial-strength case study application. You'll find coverage of all this, and more:

• BEA WebLogic Server: Fundamental concepts and configuration techniques
• Designing robust, high-performance J2EE applications—including detailed coverage of capacity planning and performance testing
• Effective use of RMI and distributed naming
• Building presentation logic with WebLogic Server servlets and JavaServer Pages
• Using session, entity, and message-driven Enterprise JavaBeans
• Interfacing with Internet Mail using WebLogic Server JavaMail
• Establishing database connectivity with JDBC and implementing transactions with JTA
• Developing security with WebLogic Server JNDI and the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS)
• Packaging, deploying, and testing WebLogic Server applications

Ready to move from "Java programmer" to "expert enterprise developer"? You won't find a more useful tool than BEA WebLogic Server—or a more useful book than J2EE Applications and BEA WebLogic Server.

• All code from the book, including a complete enterprise application
• Complete evaluation version of BEA WebLogic Server Release 6
• Bonus WebLogic Server tools and utilities

About the Author

MICHAEL GIRDLEY, Senior Product Manager for the BEA WebLogic Server, serves as marketing liaison to over 200 BEA engineers. He has extensive experience programming with Java, HTML, C, and C++, and is co-author of Web Programming with Java and Java Unleashed, Second Edition (SAMS).

ROB WOOLLEN is Senior Software Engineer for Enterprise JavaBeans at BEA Systems, and lead developer for the WebLogic Server EJB Container. He was formerly Senior Performance Engineer in charge of analyzing and improving WebLogic Server performance.

SANDRA L. EMERSON is a technical writer and consultant with 20 years of experience in the software industry. She is co-author of four books, including Addison-Wesley's best-selling The Practical SQL Handbook.

Customer Reviews

Not what I expected
As a comprehensive introduction to J2EE this book is fine, especially as the coverage is up to date.

However given the title, introduction and authors I was expecting clear and concise instructions on how to create and administer components and services in WebLogic. In this respect the book is sadly lacking.

Too many mistakes in code samples
Whilst this book can prove useful to someone who is already confident with J2EE and therefore able to spot mistakes by the author, I fear anyone new to the platform will be left wondering what the code is supposed to do.

In one chapter I have seen the syntax for include action change without any explanation as to why (it is not until later in the chapter that closing tags are introduced and hopefully all becomes clear).

Another example of problems is that seemingly class member names change within a code fragment - being declared as one name and then used as another (page 131 bis & in).

These oversights and a lack of reference material prevent this from being the definitive book for V6x Weblogic - something which still does not exist.

Pretty good
This book has the same problem which almost any 'starter kit' sort of book does, installation instructions aren't clear. That said, I was able to work it out and get WebLogic up and working within a couple of days. BEA has a web-based support system which provides decent technical support, which is critical to the success of this kind of book.

The examples are rather vanilla, but this book is valuable for giving the expertise necessary for building and deploying all of the major architectures which modern J2EE based application servers support. Weblogic is the leading product in the field today, so this is an important book for that reason.

It is also the first book published which shows hands-on examples of the new message Enterprise Java Beans which came out with the new EJB 2.0 specification. As the first of a new wave of books, this is a book any J2EE expert should own.