Effective Enterprise Java

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.But, in practice, there is.—Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut —it's that level above design where we get...

One of the difficulties many Java developers face when attempting their first J2EE-based project is that J2EE applications are built differently than traditional Java applications:...

Loose coupling, like so many other terms in our world, is at once familiar and foreign—familiar in that we all know it's a goal we...

Anybody remember client/server systems? This was the dominant architectural style for enterprise applications in the previous decade and for years occupied a place in developer...

It's a simple idea, but one that shows up time and again in a variety of guises and forms: when you want to work with...

Most programmers agree that an object is a unification of state (data) and behavior (methods), but there's a third element to any object-based or object-oriented...

Almost every system, whether J2EE-oriented in nature or not, provides a number of "hook points" by which developers can "hook" into standard processing and influence...

Every developer must squarely face the brutal fact that "stuff happens"—not only will code have bugs, but databases will run out of disk space, routers...

An ancient proverb holds that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. That's not precisely true. The journey of a thousand...

This flies in the face of over four years of advice and suggestions from almost the entirety of the Java and J2EE community, but the...

The rule, officially known as the Pareto Principle and one of the most famous (and most consistent) rules in computer science, states in its most...

Just as Java holds portability (remember "Write Once, Run Anywhere"?) as a high priority, J2EE similarly holds vendor neutrality, or the ability to take a...

So, now that the project's been deployed to production, how do you know it's still working? Of course, I know, your code has no bugs, your...

One common facet of enterprise applications is that, unlike most "shrink wrap" commercial off-the-shelf software, enterprise applications typically require some kind of administrative control over...

At some point in the project's lifetime, you have to ship. It seems trite to say it, yet large numbers of enterprise software project teams, both...