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Bitter EJB Bruce Tate, Mike Clark, Bob Lee, Patrick Linskey 2003 | 440 pages ISBN: 1930110952 |
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$22.50 | PDF ebook | |
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$44.95 | Softbound print book | |
Back Cover
“... wonderful writing style ... one of the most enjoyable technical reads ... explanation of the concepts is easy to absorb, entertaining, informative, and to the point.”
-—Dave Wiltz, SBC Global“... helps you cut through the hype surrounding enterprise Java development.”
-—John D. Crabtree, Taliant Software“They know their stuff, and that is obvious.”
-—Jack Herrington, Code Generation Network“... an awesome read.”
-—Barry Nowak, GFS Marketplace“... helps you spot the dead-ends and points you in the right direction, before you start tearing your hair out.”
-—Jon Skeet, Peramon Technology
Enterprise JavaBeans—the server-side core of J2EE application development—has been both hailed as the savior of Java enterprise programming and cursed as the bane of Java development. Complexity brings power, but it can also lead to confusion and frustration. What are the best ways to become productive with EJB?
Bitter EJB addresses the controversy head on. The authors identify and explain common EJB traps and distill them into “antipatterns.” These antipatterns encapsulate for you some of the most important EJB problems, from persistence to performance. With a clear understanding of what not to do, you will appreciate the value of the detailed best practices recommended in the book.
What’s Inside
- When to use or not use EJB
- Managing session state
- Alternatives to entity beans
- Performance tuning techniques
- XDoclet, Ant and JUnit best practices
- Avoid pitfalls of:
- message-driven beans
- entity beans
- session beans
Bruce Tate is a consultant and frequent conference speaker who promotes and teaches effective Java design. Mike Clark, president of Clarkware Consulting, helps teams build better software faster. Bob Lee is an independent consultant and open source developer. Patrick Linskey is the VP Engineering for SolarMetric, which offers Java persistence alternatives to the Java community.
DESCRIPTION
In Bitter EJB, Bruce Tate and his co-authors continue the entertaining and engaging writing style of relating true-life adventure sport experiences to antipattern themes established in Bruce's first book, the best selling Bitter Java.
This more advanced book explores antipatterns, or common traps, within the context of EJB technology.
EJB is experiencing the mixture of practical success and controversy that accompanies a new and quickly-changing framework. Bitter EJB takes the swirling EJB controversies head-on. It offers a practical approach to design: how to become a better programmer by studying problems and solutions to the most important problems surrounding the technology.
The flip side of design patterns, antipatterns, are a fun and interesting way to take EJB expertise to the next level. The book covers many different aspects of EJB, from transactions to persistence to messaging, as well as performance and testing.
Bitter EJB will teach programmers to do the following:
- Identify EJB persistence strategies
- Choose Entity bean alternatives
- Use EJB message driven beans
- Know when to apply or avoid stateful session beans
- Create efficient build strategies with XDoclet, Ant and JUnit
- Automate performance tuning
ABOUT THE AUTHORS...
Bruce Tate's consulting career spans fifteen years, including a ten-year stint at IBM. He's now an independent consult in Austin, TX where he works with the Middleware Company and other clients to promote and teach effective Java design. He wrote the smash hit, Bitter Java as the first of Manning's Bitter books.
Mike Clark is president of Clarkware Consulting, Inc. in Denver, CO. He has been crafting software professionally since 1992, immersed in Java since 1997.
Bob Lee, an independent consultant and open source developer working out of St. Louis, MO, has over 10 years of software development experience. Bob hosts a Java-themed web log at http://crazybob.org/; feel free to visit and join Bob in his ongoing bitter journey.
Patrick Linskey is the VP of Engineering for a Java persistence company called SolarMetric in Washington, DC. He's spent the last two years building a company to offer Java persistence alternatives to the Java community.