Beginning Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3, Second Edition

Author Information

Antonio Goncalves

Antonio Goncalves is a senior software architect specialized in Java/Java EE. As a former BEA consultant, he has expertise in application servers (Weblogic, JBoss, and GlassFish). He is the author of a Java EE 5 book in France and is also an Expert Member on Java EE 6, EJB 3.1, and JPA 2.0. He is the cofounder of the Paris Java User Group. For more, visit

download or download

Pro JPA 2: Mastering the Java™ Persistence API

Pro JPA 2 introduces, explains, and demonstrates how to use the new Java Persistence API (JPA). JPA provides Java developers with both the knowledge and insight needed to write Java applications that access relational databases through JPA.

Authors Mike Keith and Merrick Schincariol take a hands–on approach to teaching by giving examples to illustrate each new concept of the API and showing how it is used in practice.

All of the examples use a common model from an overriding sample application, giving readers a context from which to start and helping them to understand the examples within an already familiar domain.

After completing the book, you will have a full understanding and be able to successfully code applications using JPA. The book also serves as a reference guide during initial and later JPA application experiences.

• Hands-on examples for all the aspects of the JPA specification, based on the reference implementation of this specification
• A special section on migration to JPA
• Expert insight about various aspects of the API and when they are useful
• Portability hints to provide increased awareness of the potential for non–portable JPA code

What you’ll learn

• Get started with enterprise applications using JPA 2.
• Get up to speed with Object–Relational Mapping and Entity Manager.
• Learn and use queries and the query language (JP QL).
• Employ advanced Object–Relational Mapping techniques.
• Use XML mapping files and learn other advanced techniques.
• Package and deploy your Java persistence applications.
• Test your Java persistence applications.
• Migrate your Java persistence applications.

Who is this book for?

The book generally targets enterprise and persistence developers who fall in one of three categories:

• Those who are new to persistence; we will present some background information and introduce these readers to the basic persistence concepts to bring them up to speed.
• Those who know and/or use existing ORM persistence products such as Hibernate or TopLink.
• Those who have already used JPA and want to learn about the new features that JPA 2 introduces, or have a good reference book to turn to when they develop JPA applications.

In general, we assume that the reader is knowledgeable with Java, SQL, and JDBC, and has a little knowledge of J2EE

download

JavaFX is a Java-based rich user interface technology that sits atop the existing Java Standard and Micro Editions. Using it, developers can build rich user interfaces with access to all Java components already installed on their systems. At its heart is the easy to learn JavaFX Script language that lets developers describe what they want to accomplish in clear, declarative terms rather than abstract code. JavaFX also provides numerous libraries to make development extremely fast and efficient.

JavaFX in Action is a hands-on tutorial that introduces and explores JavaFX through numerous bite-sized projects. The book provides a solid grounding in the JavaFX syntax and related APIs by showing web developers how to apply the key features of the JavaFX platform. Readers quickly absorb the fundamentals of the technology while exploring the possibilities JavaFX provides for creative, rich designs.

Readers learn to transform variables and operators into bouncing raindrops, brilliant colors, and dancing interface components. They also learn how to interact with existing Java code to give old apps some new JavaFX sparkle.

download

In Detail

Pentaho Reporting lets you create, generate, and distribute rich and sophisticated report content from different data sources. Knowing how to use it quickly and efficiently gives you the edge in producing reports from your database. If you have been looking for a book that has plenty of easy-to-understand instructions and also contains lots of examples and screenshots, this is where your search ends.

This book shows you how to replace or build your enterprise reporting solution from scratch with Pentaho’s Reporting Suite. Through detailed examples, it dives deeply into all aspects of Pentaho’s reporting functionalities, providing you with the knowledge you need to master report creation.

This book starts off with a number of examples to get you familiar with the tools and technology of the Pentaho Reporting Suite. Then, with additional examples, it goes into advanced subjects such as charting, sub-reporting, cross tabs, as well as API generation of reports. There are also details and examples on extending Pentaho’s open source reporting engine. The reader will learn the ins and outs of Pentaho Report Designer, including a cheat sheet with all the available short-cut keys, to make report design efficient and painless.

Embedding reports into your Java application can be difficult. With Pentaho Reporting it’s just a few lines of code. The book provides examples of how to embed reporting into your J2EE and client Java applications, as well as showing you how to build dynamic reports from scratch using Pentaho Reporting’s simple Java Bean-based report generation API.

Setting up and integrating a reporting server in an enterprise environment can be arduous. In addition to learning how to build great embeddable reports, you’ll also learn how to combine Pentaho Reporting with Pentaho’s BI Server for a zero-code, easy-to-configure, enterprise reporting solution.

What you will learn from this book

• Install and get started with Pentaho Reporting
• Build great-looking reports that render as PDF, Excel, and HTML using Pentaho Report Designer
• Learn the ins and outs of Pentaho Report Designer, including a list of short-cut keys for quick report generation
• Configure your JDBC database and other data sources to drive dynamic reports
• Include Pie, Bar, Line, and many other chart types within your reports, as well as other graphics
• Parameterize your reports, using the open formula standard to drive calculations within your reports
• Add sub-reports and cross tabs in your reports to more effectively present information
• Build interactive Swing and HTML reports that are more like dashboards than traditional static enterprise reports
• Build Pentaho Reports programmatically with easy-to-use XML and Java APIs
• Learn to write your own open formula functions and custom graphical elements in reports
• Write your own extensions to Pentaho Reporting, for complete integration and customization into your environment
• Find out why you should use open source reporting over proprietary reporting offerings (hint: it’s free and you can customize it)
• Install Pentaho’s BI Server and deploy your reports with permissions and scheduling with zero code.

Chapter 1 An introduction to Pentaho Reporting – Get a quick overview of Pentaho Reporting, including a feature summary and architectural summary, as well as a history of the product.

Chapter 2 Pentaho Reporting client and enterprise examples – Install and create reports, and learn to embed reports in your J2EE and client Java applications.

Chapter 3 Pentaho Reporting examples in the real world – Connect to a JDBC data source and create realistic inventory, balance, and invoice reports, including charts and sub-reports.

Chapter 4 Design and layout in Pentaho’s Report Designer – Take a deep dive into Pentaho’s Report Designer, learning how to create great-looking reports.

Chapter 5 Working with data sources – Learn the various ways to connect your report to live data, including JDBC, Hibernate, Java Beans, OLAP, and many other data sources.

Chapter 6 Including charts and graphics in reports – Incorporate Pie, Bar, Line and many other chart types in your reports, as well as including dynamic images in your report.

Chapter 7 Parameterization, functions, formulas and style expressions in reports – Define parameters for dynamic report generation. Write formulas and use available functions for rich summary and calculated values in your reports. Dynamically adjust colors and styles using expressions in your report.

Chapter 8 Adding sub-reports and cross tabs to reports – Build reports that include side-by-side sub-reports and cross tabs.

Chapter 9 Building interactive reports – These aren’t standard boring static reports. Learn how to add dynamic interaction to HTML and Swing reports, for immediate feedback and dashboard-like functionality.

Chapter 10 API-based report generation – Build reports from XML and by using Pentaho Reporting’s Java Bean API.

Chapter 11 Extending Pentaho Reporting – Learn to write custom functions and elements within Pentaho Reporting.

Chapter 12 Additional Pentaho Reporting topics – Discover how to use Pentaho Reporting with the Pentaho BI Server, including Pentaho Metadata. Learn more about Pentaho Reporting’s open source approach, and how you can contribute to the free software movement.

Approach

This hands-on tutorial, filled with exercises and examples, introduces the reader to a variety of concepts within Pentaho Reporting. With screenshots that show you how reports look at design time as well as how they should look when rendered as PDF, Excel, or HTML, this book also contains complete example source code that you can copy and paste into your environment to get up and running quickly.

Who this book is written for

This book is primarily written for Java developers who want to assemble custom reporting solutions with Pentaho Reporting. Their main interest is in the technical details of creating reports and they want to see how to solve common report problems with a minimum of fuss; they do not need an overview of BI or the importance of reporting.

Secondary audiences of this book are information technologists who need to install a reporting solution in their environment, and want to learn advanced concepts within Pentaho Reporting such as sub-reports, cross-tabs, data source configuration, and metadata-based reporting.

download

In Detail

By building up a sample application, this book guides developers painlessly through building a project with Maven. This book shows you how to combine Maven with Continuum and Archiva, which will allow you to build an efficient, secure application and make developing in a team easy.

You may already be aware of the pitfalls of ‘integration hell’ caused by changed code being submitted to repositories by a number of developers. When you implement Continuum in your build, you can easily perform continuous integration, avoiding timely rework and reducing cost and valuable time. You will be able to use Maven more efficiently in a team after you learn how to set up Archiva, Apache’s repository manager.

It’s easy to quickly get to work with Maven and get the most out of its related tools when you follow the sequential coverage of the sample application in this book. A focus on team environments ensures that you will avoid the pitfalls that are all too common when working in a team. Soon, by learning the best practices of working with Maven, you will have built an effective, secure Java application.

What you will learn from this book

• Install Apache Maven and follow the sample application to build up your project as quickly as possible
• Test your applications to ensure maximum stability using Maven’s inbuilt tools
• Use Maven’s report and checking tools to ensure the health of your projects
• Explore Apache Continuum which will help you to ensure the health of your source code
• Improve your team builds with the powerful combination of Maven, Archiva and Continuum
• Install and run the repository manager Apache Archiva

Approach

All material in the book will be worked through by example, building up a sample application. It is intended to be read through in sequence, though once complete, should serve as a suitable reference for certain cases that can be referred to directly.

Who this book is written for

This book is for Java developers who want to get started with Apache Maven. If you are tasked with build automation in your company, this book will help you to quickly and easily get started with Maven in order to improve the efficiency of your builds.

Brett Porter is a software developer from Sydney, Australia with a passion for development tooling, and automation. Seeking a more standardized and reproducible solution to organize, build, and deploy a number of software projects across teams, he discovered an early beta of Maven 1.0 in 2003, and has been heavily involved in the development of the project since. He is a member of the Apache Maven Project Management Committee, and has conducted presentations and training on Maven and related tooling at several conferences and events. He founded the Archiva project in 2005. Brett is also a member of the Apache Software Foundation.

Brett is currently VP, Product Development at G2iX, in charge of the Maestro division. He and his team seek to make developers more efficient by offering support and services for development and automation tools including Apache Maven, Apache Continuum, Apache Archiva, and Selenium.

Brett was co-author of the book Better Builds with Maven, the first book to be written about the Maven 2.0 release in 2005, and has been involved in reviewing Maven: A Developer’s Notebook and Java Power Tools.
Maria Odea Ching

Maria Ching grew up in a small town called Daet, then moved to Manila when she went to college. She took up Computer Studies at De La Salle University and graduated in 2005. She started using open source tools from her first job after graduating and from then on, got interested in everything open source. When she came to work for Exist, she got assigned in a project doing a lot of development work in open source projects, specifically Maven, Continuum, and Archiva. Back then, Continuum and Archiva (formerly named Maven Repository Manager) were still sub-projects of Maven. Eventually, she became a committer, then a PMC member of Maven. In 2008, Continuum and Archiva became top-level projects at the ASF and Deng was elected as PMC Chair of Archiva. She is still currently serving as PMC Chair of the project and as PMC members of Continuum and Maven.

download

Pro SpringSource dm Server™

In Detail

Writing appealing cross-device applications today in Java ME is challenging as implementation differences in fonts, layout, and menus can make your application look and behave very differently on different devices. So far, the only way out has been low-level programming with its associated complexity.

The Lightweight UI Toolkit (LWUIT), an open source Java library, offers Java ME developers an easy-to-use API for creating impressive user interfaces with a device-independent look and feel. The LWUIT library contains many components and tools for bringing consistency and visual gloss to the user interface of your applications, and this book will take you through all of this, to help you get the user interfaces you want.

Java ME allows us to write applications that are, generally speaking, portable across a wide range of small devices that support the platform. While the basic functionalities usually work well on all supported devices, the area that does pose problems for developers is the User Interface. Native implementations of javax.microedition.lcdui � the primary API for UIs in Java ME � differ so widely from one device to another that maintaining a device-independent and uniform look and feel is virtually impossible. Another problem with the javax.microedition.lcdui package is that it does not support components and capabilities that can fully satisfy present day user expectations. The Lightweight UI Toolkit is the solution to these problems. LWUIT offers a wide range of components with a device-independent look and feel for building UIs. While some of these widgets are also available under lcdui, there are a number of new ones too. These additions enable application developers to design UIs that can come very close to their desktop counterparts in terms of visual sophistication and LWUIT is not just about new components either. The API supports a whole range of new functionalities (like Theming and Transitions) too.

This book takes Java ME developers through the library, with examples showing how to use the main components and functionalities. It also goes beyond a description of what is available by showing how to extend the library by plugging in custom-built classes.

What you will learn from this book

• Customize the way common components appear on screen for a unique look and feel
• Add user interface elements to your applications and learn how to style them
• Assemble sophisticated interfaces using containers, labels, and lists
• Enhance the organization of your interface using layout managers
• Add animations and transitions to your application
• Create a theme to ensure visual coherence in your application
• Use painters and painter chains for attractive backgrounds and superimposed patterns with components
• Create resources with the LWUIT Designer
• Build custom components by extending Component class Debug applications using the Log class

Approach

This book presents LWUIT through an optimum mix of theory and practice. Classes are described and their applications are demonstrated through a large number of examples. Example code is thoroughly analyzed and many screenshots are included to show what happens when the code is executed. Custom classes are built progressively with a thorough explanation of each step. The book also presents the underlying structural features of LWUIT that are important for skillful use of the API

Who this book is written for

This book is for Java ME developers who want to create compelling user interfaces for Java ME applications, and want to use LWUIT to make this happen

download

In Detail

Data retrieval and storage is one of the most common components of J2EE applications. JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) is the Java API for accessing a SQL relational database and adding, retrieving, and updating data in the database.

Oracle JDeveloper is a developer-friendly integrated development environment (IDE) for building service-oriented applications using the latest industry standards for Java, XML, web services, and SQL. It supports the complete development lifecycle with integrated features for modeling, coding, debugging, testing, profiling, tuning, and deploying applications.

This book is about developing Java/J2EE applications with a database component in Oracle JDeveloper (version 10.1.3). It covers the practical aspects of JDBC (version 4.0); it will teach application developers about setting the environment for developing various JDBC-based J2EE applications and the procedure to develop JDBC-based J2EE applications. It will also explore the new features added in JDBC 4.0.

Read the full Table of Contents for JDBC 4.0 and Oracle JDeveloper for J2EE Development

What you will learn from this book

In this book you will learn about the following:

* JDBC 4.0 specifications梚ncluding the new features
* Configuring JDBC in Oracle JDeveloper IDE
* Creating, modifying, and querying a database with the JSTL SQL Tag Library
* Configuring JDBC in JBoss application server, WebLogic server, and WebSphere application server
* Mapping an XML document to a database table and vice versa
* Modifying a database table from an XML document and creating an XSQL Page to run an SQL Query and generate XML
* Implementing Oracle Web RowSet to fetch the disconnected data
* Creating Excel spreadsheets, PDFs, and Excel reports using JasperReports and the Apache POI HSSF library
* Creating JSF Data Tables, JSF Panel Grids, and business components from Oracle databases with JDeveloper
* Creating and managing database tables using Hibernate

Approach

Being a quick reference guide, this book has a focused approach. You will learn to develop J2EE applications with JDBC and JDeveloper in no time. The book covers lot of practical examples, which makes it developer-friendly learning material.

Who this book is written for

The book is suitable for Java/J2EE and Oracle JDeveloper beginners. If you are a J2EE developer and want to use the JDeveloper IDE for J2EE development, this book is for you. JDeveloper developers who are new to J2EE will also benefit from the book. Most J2EE applications have a database component and the book is specially suited for database-based J2EE development in Oracle JDeveloper. You can also use this book if you are interested in learning how to utilize the new features offered in JDBC 4.0 for Java/J2EE development.

download

In Detail

Business rules can help your business by providing a level of agility and flexibility. As a developer, you will be largely responsible for implementing these business rules effectively, but implementing them systematically can often be difficult due to their complexity. Drools, or JBoss Rules, makes the process of implementing these rules quicker and handles the complexity, making your life a lot easier!

This book guides you through all of the features of Drools, such as dynamic rules, the event model, and Rete implementation with high performance indexing. It will help you to set up the JBoss Rules platform and start creating your own business. It’s easy to start developing with Drools if you follow its real-world examples that are intended to make your life easier.

Starting with an introduction to the basic syntax that is essential for writing rules, the book will guide you through validation and human-readable rules that define, maintain, and support your business agility. As a developer, you will be expected to represent policies, procedures and. constraints regarding how an enterprise conducts its business; this book makes it easier by showing you it can be done.

A real-life example of a banking domain allows you to see how the internal workings of the rules engine operate. A loan approval process example shows the use of the Drools Flow module. Parts of a banking fraud detection system are implemented with Drools Fusion module, which is the Complex Event Processing part of Drools. This in turn, will help developers to work on preventing fraudulent users from accessing systems in an illegal way.

Finally, more technical details are shown on the inner workings of Drools, the implementation of the ReteOO algorithm, indexing, node sharing, and partitioning.

What you will learn from this book

• Write more efficient business rules, and work with the Rete algorithm, node indexing, node sharing, and parallelization
• Create a WS-HumanTask-compliant WorkItem in a process (workflow)
• Implement concurrency control in cross-cutting functionalities to manage code easily
• Write human-readable rules, and Domain Specific Language for your rules to easily understand and verify them
• Generate a stateful service by using a stateful knowledge session that maintains state between invocations and teaches you how to transactionally persist this service
• Develop dynamic remote knowledge-base loading to change rules in your application without even stopping it
• Prepare decision tables for calculating account interest rates
• Integrate Drools within your Java business application, and integrate it with the Spring framework

Approach

This is a problem-solution guide that starts with an introduction to a problem and continues with a discussion of the possible solution. The book covers best practices when working with Drools. The examples and their solutions are accompanied by plenty of code listings and figures providing a better view of the problem.

Who this book is written for

The book is for Java developers who want to create rules-based business logic using the Drools platform. Basic knowledge of Java is essential.

download

About this Book

As a Java developer, you want to leverage your knowledge and the wealth of Java libraries and tools. But when it comes to web development, many frameworks seem over-engineered and too complex. They have a steep learning curve, and it抯 just too difficult to get them to do exactly what you need because of their 揷losed-box� design.

Stripes brings simplicity back to Java web development. You抣l be up and running in minutes, and can go a long way with just a few simple concepts. You抣l spend your time developing your application, not maintaining gobs of configuration. Because Stripes is very transparent, you will understand exactly what is going on from request to response.

The popularity of Stripes keeps increasing because of its clean design and extensibility. With this complete tutorial and reference, you can master Stripes and take advantage of its productivity in web application development. You抣l tailor the framework to your requirements, not the other way around!

This book is packed with explanations and examples so that you learn practical problem-solving techniques. You抣l be able to 搘rap your head around the framework� and fully understand how Stripes works.

When your customer requests a feature, you抣l answer 搚es� with confidence because you抮e using a framework that lets you get the results that you need without getting in your way. Because of its open design, Stripes lets you easily integrate your favorite tools: tag libraries, AJAX frameworks, ORM solutions, dependency injectors, and more.

Contents and Extracts

Full Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Learning the Controls
  • Stripes 101: Getting Started
  • The Core: Action Beans and JSPs
  • Creating Forms
  • Validating User Input
  • Using Built-in Validations
  • There抯 More to Life than Strings: Working with Data Types
  • Customizing Stripes Messages
  • Customizing Error Messages
  • Reusable Layouts

• Revving Up
  • Adding Form Input Controls
  • Advanced Features Made Easy
  • Registering and Logging In
  • Parlez-vous fran鏰is? Making it Multilingual

• In High Gear
  • Completing the Stack
  • Tapping into Stripes
  • It抯 a Dangerous World: Adding Security
  • Using JavaScript and AJAX

About the Author

Frederic Daoud is a software developer who has been using Java since 1997 and developing web applications since the 損re-JSP� days of just Servlets. A web framework junkie, he learned a dozen of them before Stripes became his favorite. Currently a Stripes committer, he is active on the Stripes mailing list, answering questions and helping new users.

Freddy lives in Montreal, Canada, where he shares the roasting hot summers and freezing cold winters with his wonderful wife Nadia and their beautiful daughter Lily.

download

DESCRIPTION

download

DESCRIPTION

download

In Detail

AJAX enables rich desktop-like user interfaces in the browser and enables interactive interfaces that can even replace traditional user interfaces. DWR (Direct Web Remoting) is an Open Source Java framework for building AJAX applications. DWR’s main idea is to hide AJAX implementation details, like XMLHttpRequest, from developers. By using DWR, you can concentrate on developing the application and business objects and leave AJAX details behind the scenes where they belong. DWR allows server-side Java classes to be used in the browser and JavaScript functions to be used on the server (Reverse AJAX).

This book will show competent Java programmers how to work with DWR to create powerful AJAX applications. It starts with a tutorial on DWR’s main features and functions. Then it covers setting up the development environment. Finally, it concludes with some sample applications.

The later chapters are full of example code for sample applications, to aid comprehension.

What you will learn from this book

• Will make your development faster and simpler by teaching you the features of DWR and implementing it with Reverse AJAX.
• Teaches you how to use DWR JavaScript libraries, Convertors, Creators, Filters and Signatures. Integration with other projects, and Security � factors which are essential to developing any DWR application.
• Specifies practical aspects such as supported browser and environments, configuration, setting up development environment, testing and debugging, error handling, packaging and deployment in a comprehensive manner, by demonstration where required.
• Provides a practical demonstration of creating a dynamic user interface, implementing tables and lists, and field completion for you to derive concepts from.
• Shows advanced elements of user interface through practical examples of creating forms, building a navigation tree, and map scrolling.
• Teaches back-end integration: integrating a database with DWR, integrating with web services, and integrating with a messaging system.
• Includes collaborative book authoring and chatroom applications, which show how easy it would be to enhance your applications to production grade using these samples as a starting point for development and as a source of ideas.

Approach

The initial part guides the reader through the features of DWR and how it works to make the developer ready for practical implementation. The later part contains plenty of code (with explanations) and graphical interface-driven step-by-step examples, which the reader can try out while surfing through the book to learn by doing.

Who this book is written for

This book is written for competent Java developers and assumes that you are a professional rather than hobbyist. You should be familiar with the concepts of programming, Web 2.0, and AJAX.

download

In Detail

Java EE, the successor to J2EE, greatly simplifies the development of enterprise applications. The popular IDE, NetBeans, has several features that greatly simplify Java EE development, and this book shows you how to make use of these features to make your Java programming more efficient and productive than ever before.

With many features and great flexibility, the Java developer can become overwhelmed by the options available in NetBeans, This book helps you get control of the environment, and make it work for you so that you can concentrate on the important parts of your application.

This book takes you through the most important parts of Java EE programming and, with clear, careful instructions and screenshots, shows you how to use the features of NetBeans that will improve your development experience. This book will not only show you time-saving tricks, keyboard shortcuts and other productivity enhancements possible with NetBeans, it will take you through the major Java EE APIs and how to get them working in the NetBeans environment.

While focusing on NetBeans features, you will learn about developing applications using the servlet API and JSPs, including taking advantage of JSTL and developing custom JSP tags. Developing applications that take advantage of JavaServer Faces is also covered in detail, including how to generate standard JSF applications from an existing database schema. The book also covers how to easily develop elegant JSF applications by taking advantage of the NetBeans Visual Web designer.

What you will learn from this book

• Develop Java web applications by leveraging NetBeans functionality
• Build standard JSF applications by taking advantage of NetBeans features
• Integrate NetBeans with third-party RDBMS
• Develop JavaServer Pages (JSPs) to display both static and dynamic content in a web browser
• Visually develop aesthetically pleasing JSF web applications with the NetBeans Visual Web designer
• Quickly and easily develop applications taking advantage of the Java Persistence API
• Implement the Model-View-Controller design pattern by using JavaBeans as the model component
• Take advantage of NetBeans functionality to easily develop Enterprise JavaBeans, including configuring transaction management via annotations
• Use static and dynamic navigation to define navigation between pages
• Utilize NetBeans to easily add messaging functionality to enterprise applications, through the Java Messaging Service API and through messag-driven EJBs
• Develop web services using NetBeans, including exposing EJB functionality as web services

Approach

This book takes you through the important parts of Java EE development and, with clear, careful instructions and screenshots, shows you the relevant features of the NetBeans IDE.

Who this book is written for

The book is aimed at Java developers who wish to develop Java EE applications while taking advantage of NetBeans functionality to automate repetitive tasks and to ease their software development efforts. Familiarity with Java EE is not assumed.

download

Swing Extreme Testing
Packt Publishing | 2008-05-30 | ISBN: 1847194826 | 328 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Thorough testing is the basis of good software. Whether we use an agile development methodology such as Extreme Programming, or a more traditional approach, we must test our software at the unit level and application level. The tests must run automatically and cover all aspects of the software.

In this book, the authors draw on more than 20 years of experience to show how automated testing can be applied to a real commercial product.

This book will teach you how to automatically test user interfaces (Swing GUIs), the help system, internationalization, log files, spreadsheets, email, and web services, how to perform tests involving multiple JVMs, and a host of other things. These tests are applied at the module level (unit tests) and at the application level (function tests).

The authors have developed the test processes in the broader context of an Extreme Programming (XP) methodology. However, the testing techniques are certainly not specific to XP, and may be applied within any given development methodology.

download

The EJB 3 (Enterprise Java Beans version 3) specification is a core component of enterprise-level JEE (Java Platform Enterprise Edition) implementations and this improved version is set to simplify the development of Enterprise Java applications.

This book covers the core elements of EJB 3 technology, exploring them in a concise manner with many supporting examples. You will gain a thorough understanding of EJB 3 technology and learn about the most important features of EJB 3 quickly.

In Detail

What you will learn from this book

This book will teach you the core elements of EJB 3 technology. You will:

• Gain a rapid introduction to the EJB 3 essentials while learning about the underlying principles
• Create Entities, Message-Driven Beans, Session Beans and their clients
• Look at running an EJB client from an application client container
• Learn how to package and deploy an EJB
• Use JQPL (Java Persistence Query Language)
• Explore the entity manager interface
• Learn about object/relational mapping with EJB 3
• Look at the Java Messaging API and message-driven beans
• Look at transactions, interceptors, and EJB timer services
• Understand how EJB 3 differs from the 2.x version
• Implement EJB 3’s security features

Approach

This book is a fast-paced tutorial that explores the key features of EJB 3 with many accompanying examples. This book is not a complete reference guide, but a concise exploration of EJB 3’s core elements.

Who this book is written for This book is primarily aimed at professional developers who already have a working knowledge of Java. Enterprise architects and designers with a background in Java would also find this book of use. Previous experience of working with Java is essential and knowledge of relational databases is desirable.

As this book is an introduction to EJB 3, it is aimed at those who are new to EJB 3. As the new version of EJB is so radically different from the previous version (EJB 2.x), the book is suitable for and should be of interest to those who have had experience working with EJB 2.x. The text makes it clear where the differences between the versions of EJB lie, although they are not explored in detail.

download

About this Book

The increasing popularity and availability of multicore processors is creating a whole new set of challenges梐lthough you can enjoy true concurrency, you抮e now faced with higher contention and synchronization issues. Deploying an existing application on a multicore processor may bring out previously hidden concurrency issues. Java抯 multi-threading facility by itself isn抰 enough�-it抯 a very low level abstraction. Instead, you need a paradigm that provides a higher level of abstraction to deal with concurrency. It抯 time to embrace Functional Programming.

Scala is a hybrid Object-Oriented/Functional Programming language on the JVM. Using Scala, you can create traditional imperative programs, intermix them with Java code, and at the same time take advantage of higher levels of abstraction. You can use features that lead to concise, highly expressive code that remove the pain of dealing with concurrency.

Programming Scala will show you the fundamentals of functional programming using Scala. Very quickly, you抣l learn how this statically typed language can give you dynamic capabilities to create concise, scalable, highly capable concurrent code.

Pragmatic programmers always use the right tool for the job. For concurrent programming on the Java VM, Scala is the tool, and Programming Scala by award-winning author Venkat Subramaniam is your guide.

Contents and Extracts

Full Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Getting Started
• Getting up to speed in Scala excerpt
• Classes in Scala
• Sensible Typing excerpt
• Function Values and Closures
• Traits and Type Conversions excerpt
• Using Collections
• Pattern Matching and Regular Expressions
• Concurrent Programming
• Intermixing with Java
• Unit Testing With Scala
• Exception Handling
• Using Scala
• Web Resources

download

Essential JavaFX

download