Preface

This book is both a practical guide and a quick reference for Java™ programmers who are writing enterprise applications. The world of enterprise development in the Java environment consists of a mix of standardized APIs and services and de facto standard tools and APIs that have been developed in the Java community. The first part of the book provides a fast-paced introduction to key standard Java enterprise principles and APIs: J2EE™ deployment, servlets, JavaServer Pages™ (JSPs), JavaServer™ Faces (JSF), Enterprise JavaBeans™ (EJB), XML, JDBC™, Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI), J2EE security principles, Java Message Service (JMS), SOAP web services, Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java IDL (CORBA), JavaMail™, and transactions. The second part of the book covers a select set of key de facto tools commonly used in Java enterprise development: Ant, JUnit, Cactus, Struts, Hibernate, and XDoclet.