The Java EE 5 Tutorial, Third Edition: For Sun Java System Application Server Platform

1. Overview Developers today increasingly recognize the need for distributed, transactional, and portable applications that leverage the speed, security, and reliability of server-side technology. In the world of inform...

2. Getting Started with Web Applications A web application is a dynamic extension of a web or application server. There are two types of web applications: Presentation-oriented: A presentation-oriented web application...

3. Java Servlet Technology As soon as the web began to be used for delivering services, service providers recognized the need for dynamic content. Applets, one of the earliest attempts toward this goal, focused on using...

4. JavaServer Pages Technology JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology allows you to easily create web content that has both static and dynamic components. JSP technology makes available all the dynamic capabilities of Java S...

5. JavaServer Pages Documents A JSP document is a JSP page written in XML syntax as opposed to the standard syntax described in Chapter 4. Because it is written in XML syntax, a JSP document is also an XML document and...

6. JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library The JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) encapsulates core functionality common to many JSP applications. Instead of mixing tags from numerous vendors in your JSP applica...

7. Custom Tags in JSP Pages The standard JSP tags simplify JSP page development and maintenance. JSP technology also provides a mechanism for encapsulating other types of dynamic functionality in custom tags, which are...

8. Scripting in JSP Pages JSP scripting elements allow you to use Java programming language statements in your JSP pages. Scripting elements are typically used to create and access objects, define methods, and manage th...

9. JavaServer Faces Technology JavaServer Faces technology is a server-side user interface component framework for Java technology-based web applications. The main components of JavaServer Faces technology are as follo...

10. Using JavaServer Faces Technology in JSP Pages The page author's responsibility is to design the pages of a JavaServer Faces application. This includes laying out the components on the page and wiring them to backin...

11. Developing with JavaServer Faces Technology Chapter 10 shows how the page author can bind components to server-side objects by using the component tags and core tags on the JSP page. The application developer's resp...

12. Creating Custom UI Components JavaServer Faces technology offers a basic set of standard, reusable UI components that enable page authors and application developers to quickly and easily construct UIs for web applic...

13. Configuring JavaServer Faces Applications The responsibilities of the application architect include the following: Registering back-end objects with the application so that all parts of the application have access...

14. Internationalizing and Localizing Web Applications The process of preparing an application to support more than one language and data format is called internationalization. Localization is the process of adapting an...

15. Building Web Services with JAX-WS JAX-WS stands for Java API for XML Web Services. JAX-WS is a technology for building web services and clients that communicate using XML. JAX-WS allows developers to write message-o...

16. Binding between XML Schema and Java Classes The Java#8482; Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) provides a fast and convenient way to bind between XML schemas and Java representations, making it easy for Java develop...

17. Streaming API for XML This chapter focuses on the Streaming API for XML (StAX), a streaming Java-based, event-driven, pull-parsing API for reading and writing XML documents. StAX enables you to create bidrectional X...

18. SOAP with Attachments API for Java SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) is used mainly for the SOAP messaging that goes on behind the scenes in JAX-WS handlers and JAXR implementations. Secondarily, it is an AP...

19. Java API for XML Registries The Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) provides a uniform and standard Java API for accessing various kinds of XML registries. After providing a brief overview of JAXR, this chapter desc...

20. Enterprise Beans Enterprise beans are Java EE components that implement Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) technology. Enterprise beans run in the EJB container, a runtime environment within the Application Server (see Cont...

21. Getting Started with Enterprise Beans This chapter shows how to develop, deploy, and run a simple Java EE application named converter. The purpose of converter is to calculate currency conversions between Japanese y...

22. Session Bean Examples Session beans provide a simple but powerful way to encapsulate business logic within an application. They can be accessed from remote Java clients, web service clients, and from components runn...

23. A Message-Driven Bean Example Message-driven beans can implement any messaging type. Most commonly, they implement the Java Message Service (JMS) technology. The example in this chapter uses JMS technology, so you s...

24. to the Java Persistence API The Java Persistence API provides an object/relational mapping facility to Java developers for managing relational data in Java applications. Java Persistence consists of three areas: T...

25. Persistence in the Web Tier This chapter describes how to use the Java Persistence API from web applications. The material here focuses on the source code and settings of an example called bookstore, a web applicati...

26. Persistence in the EJB Tier This chapter describes how to use the Java Persistence API from enterprise beans. The material here focuses on the source code and settings of two examples. The first example called order...

27. The Java Persistence Query Language The Java Persistence query language defines queries for entities and their persistent state. The query language allows you to write portable queries that work regardless of the un...

28. to Security in Java EE This and subsequent chapters discuss how to address security requirements in Java EE, web, and web services applications. Every enterprise that has sensitive resources that can be accessed by...

29. Securing Java EE Applications Java EE applications are made up of components that can be deployed into different containers. These components are used to build multitier enterprise applications. Security services ar...

30. Securing Web Applications Web applications contain resources that can be accessed by many users. These resources often traverse unprotected, open networks, such as the Internet. In such an environment, a substantial...

31. The Java Message Service API This chapter provides an introduction to the Java Message Service (JMS) API, a Java API that allows applications to create, send, receive, and read messages using reliable, asynchronous,...

32. Java EE Examples Using the JMS API This chapter provides examples that show how to use the JMS API within a Java EE application in the following ways: Using a session bean to send messages that are consumed by a me...

33. Transactions A typical enterprise application accesses and stores information in one or more databases. Because this information is critical for business operations, it must be accurate, current, and reliable. Data...

34. Resource Connections Java EE components can access a wide variety of resources, including databases, mail sessions, Java Message Service objects, JAXR connection factories, and URLs. The Java EE 5 platform provides...

35. Connector Architecture The Connector architecture enables Java EE components to interact with enterprise information systems (EISs) and EISs to interact with Java EE components. EIS software includes various types o...

36. The Coffee Break Application This chapter describes the Coffee Break application, a set of web applications that demonstrate how to use several of the Java Web services APIs together. The Coffee Break sells coffee o...

37. The Duke's Bank Application This chapter describes the Duke's Bank application, an online banking application. Duke's Bank has two clients: an application client used by administrators to manage customers and accoun...