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Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans

3rd Edition

Includes more than 30 percent revised material and five new chapters, covering the new 2.1 features such as EJB Timer Service and JMS as well as the latest open source Java solutionsThe book was developed as part of TheServerSide.com online EJB community, ensuring a built-in audienceDemonstrates how to build an EJB system, program with EJB, adopt best practices, and harness advanced EJB concepts and techniques, including transactions, persistence, clustering, integration, and performance optimizationOffers practical guidance on when not to use EJB and how to use simpler, less costly open source technologies in place of or in conjunction with EJB...

Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans

2nd Edition

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) has proven to be wildly successful and is fast becoming the dominant technology for building server-side applications, including most Web applications. In this much-anticipated new edition, bestselling author Ed Roman teams up with noted software development experts Scott Ambler and Tyler Jewell to once again deliver the definitive guide to all things EJB. Geared toward Web site developers, enterprise application developers, and developers of software components for resale, this book has been updated to cover the latest features of version 2.0--including container services, transactions, design strategies, complex persistence...

Agile Database Techniques

Effective Strategies for the Agile Software Developer

Describes Agile Modeling Driven Design (AMDD) and Test-Driven Design (TDD) approaches, database refactoring, database encapsulation strategies, and tools that support evolutionary techniquesAgile software developers often use object and relational database (RDB) technology together and as a result must overcome the impedance mismatchThe author covers techniques for mapping objects to RDBs and for implementing concurrency control, referential integrity, shared business logic, security access control, reports, and XMLAn agile foundation describes fundamental skills that all agile software developers require, particularly Agile DBAsIncludes object modeling, UML data modeling, data normalization, class normalization, and how to deal with legacy databases...

The Object Primer

Agile Model-Driven Development with UML 2.0

3rd Edition

Scott Ambler, award-winning author of Building Object Applications that Work, Process Patterns, and More Process Patterns, has revised his acclaimed first book, The Object Primer. Long prized by both students and professionals as the best introduction to object-oriented technology, this book is now completely up-to-date, with all modeling notation rewritten in the just-released UML 2.0. All chapters have been revised to take advantage of Agile Modeling (AM), which is presented in the new chapter 2 along with other important new modeling techniques. Review questions at the end of each chapter allow readers to test their newly acquired knowledge. In addi...