Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 (Paperback)

About the Authors. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I Overview. Chapter 1 Overview. A Prelude to Enterprise JavaBeans. Infrastructure Needs of Distributed Applications. Enterprise JavaBeans Technology. Service-Oriented Architectures and Enterprise JavaBeans. Divide and Conquer to the Extreme with Reusable Services. The Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5.0 (Java EE). Summary. Chapter 2 Pre-EJB 3.0: The World That Was. What Constituted a Pre-EJB 3.0 Enterprise Bean? Developing and Deploying a Pre-EJB 3.0 Enterprise Java Bean. Dissecting EJB 2.x. Summary. Chapter 3 The New Enterprise JavaBean. Introducing EJB 3.0. The EJB 3.0 Simplified API. Packaging and Deployment of the "New" Bean. Summary. Part II The Triad of Beans and Entities. Chapter 4 Introduction to Session Beans. Session Bean Lifetime. Session Bean Subtypes. Special Characteristics of Stateful Session Beans. Summary. Chapter 5 Writing Session Bean Web Services. Web Services Concepts. Implementing a Web Service. Implementing a Web Service Client. Summary. Chapter 6 Java Persistence: Programming with Entities. Object-Relational Mapping. What Is an Entity? The EntityManager API. Summary. Chapter 7 Introduction to Message-Driven Beans. Motivations for Messaging. The Java Message Service (JMS). Integrating JMS with EJB. Developing Message-Driven Beans. Advanced Concepts. JMS Message-Driven Bean Gotchas. Summary. Chapter 8 Adding Functionality to Your Beans. Calling Beans from Other Beans. Annotations. Summary. Part III Advanced Enterprise JavaBeans Concepts. Chapter 9 Advanced Persistence Concepts. Inheritance. Polymorphism. Relationships. EJB-QL Enhancements. Summary. Chapter 10 Transactions. Motivation for Transactions. Benefits of Transactions. Transactional Models. Distributed Transactions. Java Transaction Service and Java Transaction API. Enterprise JavaBeans Transactions. Container-Managed Transactions. Bean-Managed Transactions. Client-Controlled Transactions. Transactional Isolation. Designing Transactional Conversations in EJB. Summary. Chapter 11 Security. Introduction. Web Application Security. Understanding EJB Security. Secure Interoperability. Web Services Security. Summary. Chapter 12 EJB Timers. Scheduling. EJB and Scheduling. The EJB Timer Service. Timer Example: CleanDayLimitOrdersBean. Strengths and Limitations of EJB Timer Service. Summary. Chapter 13 EJB Best Practices. When to Use EJB. How to Choose a Web Application Framework to Work with EJB. Applying Model Driven Development in EJB Projects. Applying Extreme Programming in EJB Projects. Testing EJB. Implementing Client-Side Callback Functionality in EJB. Choosing between Servlets and Stateless Session Beans as Service Endpoints. Considering the Use of Aspect-Oriented Programming Techniques in EJB Projects. Reflection, Dynamic Proxy, and EJB. Deploying EJB Applications to Various Application Servers. Debugging EJB. Inheritance and Code Reuse in EJB. Writing Singletons in EJB. When to Use XML with EJB. When to Use Messaging versus RMI-IIOP. Summary. Chapter 14 EJB Performance Optimizations. It Pays to Be Proactive! The Stateful versus Stateless Debate from a Performance Point of View. How to Guarantee a Response Time with Capacity Planning. Use Session Facade for Better Performance. Choosing between Local Interfaces and Remote Interfaces. Partitioning Your Resources. Tuning Stateless Session Beans. Tuning Stateful Session Beans. Tuning Entities. Tuning Message-Driven Beans. Tuning Java Virtual Machine. Miscellaneous Tuning Tips. Choosing the Right EJB Server. Summary. Chapter 15 EJB Integration. Why Does Integration Matter? EJB and Integration. Ja