Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere

Welcome to Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere, 2nd Edition. This book was designed to help you understand how to design, build, and deploy...

to the Case Study Learning a new technology is often complicated by the fact that most sources of information tend to throw a lot...

J2EE Overview Over the years, the Java technology platform has grown out of its original applet client/server origins into a robust server-side development platform....

What Is WebSphere? One of the more confusing things about starting to use IBM's implementation of the J2EE technology is understanding what people mean...

Presentation Layer Patterns The user interface of an application provides the basis in which the end user, in many cases your paying customer, judges...

Servlets Now that we've examined some of the architectural issues surrounding the use of server-side programming and J2EE, we can look in-depth at the...

Developing Servlets Using IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer In the previous chapter, we learned the basics of HTTP and servlets. Now it's time to...

Testing Servlets Using WSAD In you learned how to develop a simple servlet-based Web application. In this chapter, we'll finish the example by deploying...

Managing Session State Using servlets in complex applications introduces interesting challenges to the developer. Possibly the biggest challenge is to maintain the application state...

JavaServer Pages Concepts Most of the content presented to the user as part of a Web application is HTML. These Web pages are easily...

Tag Libraries and Custom Tags Section 11.1. Section 11.2. Basic Model for Custom Tags Section 11.3. JSTL and Other Widely Used Tag Libraries Section...

Design Considerations for Controllers When designing large-scale applications based upon servlets and JSPs, each decision you make should ultimately enhance the reliability and scalability...

Developing and Testing JSPs in WSAD In Chapters 6 and 7, you saw how to develop servlets to add dynamic behavior to your Web...

Apache Struts as an MVC Framework Deciding which path to take is one of the hardest decisions a servlet and JSP developer faces. Since...

XML/XSL Web Interfaces in WSAD Building on our knowledge of using JSPs with servlets to create robust Web interfaces, in this chapter, we will...

Developing and Testing the Domain Model In we introduced the concept of layers that can be used to partition the overall enterprise application architecture...

Unit and Functional Testing Applications in WSAD Testing is fundamental to software development. Unfortunately, most development organizations still perform their tests in the same...

Supporting Enterprise Applications So far we've demonstrated how you can effectively use Java servlets and JSPs together with JavaBeans to build a server-side MVC...

Basic EJB Architecture In the previous chapter, we examined the common problems that all scalable applications must address. Now that you have a firm...

Developing EJBs with WSAD Up to now you've seen how EJBs are structured and how the J2EE technology makes use of them. Now we...

Testing and Debugging EJBs in WSAD In Chapters 7 and 8 we explored how to develop and test servlets using a simple example that...

EJB Client Development You've now seen many of the parts of building a system with J2EE and WebSphere, and some of the pieces may...

Simple CMP Entity Beans In you read that there are three types of EJBs supported by WebSphere—MDBs, session beans, and entity beans. You have...

CMP Mapping Strategies and Mapping in WSAD In we described several different mapping patterns demonstrating how to write your own JDBC code to persist...

Advanced CMP Mapping In previous chapters we covered the basics of the WSAD J2EE tooling development environment. showed you how to use the basic...

Bean-Managed Persistence In earlier chapters you have seen how the EJB specification provides for persistence management in EJB implementations. While data can be stored...

to Message-Driven Beans So far we have taken a fairly extensive look at entity and session beans. A common thread running through the design...

Transactions in WebSphere 5.0 Transactions are one of those things that most Java programmers would rather ignore than try to understand. And, in fact,...

J2EE Security in WebSphere Let's face it, security is a painful subject. Far too often, developers take the attitude that security is "not my...

Building Layered Architectures for EJB Systems In a previous chapter, we laid out the requirements and design of our case study and, in the...

Implementing the Case Study User Interface In we described the basic requirements of our complete case study and outlined some of the objects found...

An to J2EE Web Services for WebSphere Web services promise to revolutionize the Internet by enabling integration of requests for services across a number...

Constructing J2EE Web Services for WebSphere In this chapter, we will build an example Web service from the RandomIDGenerator EJB. In addition to providing...

Web Services Architectures and Best Practices In the previous chapters you've seen a little about the promise of using Web Services in WebSphere. In...

A Final Look Throughout this book, we have demonstrated how J2EE and WebSphere combine to form an architecture and runtime suitable for large, mission-critical...