Effective Enterprise Java

To those searching for the truth—not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required....

In order to maintain transient state on behalf of clients in an HTML/HTTP-based application, servlet containers provide a facility called session space, represented by the...

You've spent weeks, if not months, designing an elegant object model representing your application's business domain objects, searching for just the right combination of inheritance,...

For years (if not decades), the undisputed king of the data storage tier has been the relational database; despite a valiant run by OODBMSs in...

Prior to the object-oriented takeover of the programming language community, prior to the almost universal sweep of data storage options in the late 1970s and...

XML is everywhere, including in your persistence plans. Once we'd finally gotten around to realizing that XML was all about data and not a language for...

Most often, when J2EE developers begin the design and architectural layout of the project, it's a foregone conclusion that data storage will be done in...

Remember that one of our fundamental assumptions about enterprise software (from is that an enterprise software system is one in which some or all...

Given the cost of a trip across the network to the remote database, it follows that we don't want to actually pull any data across...

Eager-loading is the opposite of lazy-loading (see Item 46): rather than taking the additional network round-trip to retrieve data later, when it's needed, we decide...

Given the cost of moving across the network, we need to minimize the number of times we travel across the network connection to another machine....

Despite all the revisions and years behind it, the JDBC Specification still doesn't mandate a large number of particulars—deliberately. For example, when a ResultSet is...

Quiz time: When are two logically equivalent SQL statements not equivalent? Consider the following pair of logically equal SQL statements: SELECT * FROM Table WHERE column1='A'...