J2EE^TM Open Source Toolkit: Building an Enterprise Platform with Open Source Tools (Java Open Source Library)

by John T. Bell; James Lambros; Stan Ng

• ISBN13: 9780471444350
• ISBN10: 0471444359
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The first book that shows how to harness the full power of open-source tools to build a free J2EE development platform without using any commercial products Tools covered include Apache Tomcat, Struts, Jetspeed, MySQL, Joram, and jBoss Shows developers how to integrate all of the most popular open-source tools into a single, integrated platform Companion Web site provides source code plus a fully working example of the development platform created in the book

Author Biography

JOHN T. BELL is an instructor of server-side Java technologies for the Center for Applied Information Technology at Towson State University in Maryland. He also serves as a technical architect for a major hospitality company. <p> JAMES T. LAMBROS is a software architect/analyst for Caterpillar Financial Corporation. He has also been involved with several software development projects during his career with IBM. <p> RD NG is the cofounder of Nuglu, LLC and directing software development at ciMediaGroup, a division of Creative Images. He is a coconspirator with Dr. Robert Nideffer behind the international award-winning Proxy/MAM research project.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

Leveraging Open Source Software.

Java Enterprise Architecture.

Selecting the Right Platform Components.

Choosing Your Developer Tools.

Powering the Web Tier with a Server Container.

Creating Dynamic Content Using Template Engines.

Adding a Web Application Framework.

Managing Data Using JDBC and Databases.

Messaging with JMS.

Implementing an EJB Container.

Providing Web Services.

Adding XML Power Tools.

Building an Application: Assembling the Back End.

Building an Application: Assembling the Front End.

Deploying and Running Your Application.