Designing Enterprise Applications with the Java 2 Platform

by Enterprise Team and Nicholas Kassem

With its excellent cross-platform capabilities and rich enterprise-level APIs, today's Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), stands ready to build the next generation of multitiered Web applications--but... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201702770
• ISBN13: 9780201702774
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent overview of J2EE big picture

I have been using Servlet/JSP/EJB for quite a while. However, until after reading this book, I start to fully understand the big picture of the J2EE platfrom. I wish I could have read it long time ago, before I started dig into all the details of Servlet/JSP/EJB! While, after understanding all these building blocks, come back and read this big picture blueprint is still a very nice treatment.High recommended for serious server side Java designers / Architects !Looking forward to the upcoming 2nd edition of the book.

Great Book

I thought this book did a great job covering the J2EE concepts. Some chapters were better than others but I think that everyone that is building J2EE applications should read this book (or most of the chapters) at least once. I made it a required reading for members of my development team. It talks about the Pet Store application written by Sun which is a great example to learn from. It is also valuable for people that are interested in moving to EJB. (Talks about a Web centric approach vs. EJB centric.) I think that this book is a must read!

Designing not developing is the keyword here

One of the better books when it comes to designing enterprise applications, if not the best. The stress in the book is not on developing, but as the title suggests - the stress is on designing enterprise apps using j2ee. So don't look in this book for broad and expansive coverage on technologies such as JSP, Servlets, EJBs. There are plenty of other books that do that. Where the books scores is in the lucid explanation of ways to design an enterprise application. But the reader should be aware of the J2EE technologies are used here prior to reading this book. There are chapters written by different authors who are (probably)experts in their domains. For eg. the chapter 4 - The Web Tier is very well written and clears a lot of doubts. In short a good book for clearing up all your doubts on the design of a J2EE app. This is one of a kind book on this subject. Also, a good source for clearing up your MVC fundamentals.

The title tells it all

This book provides an overview of the application design and development for J2EE. The last chapter, which is chapter 10, walks you through a sample of pet store application utilizing the concepts covered in the previous chapters. The book has 341 pages and is easy to carry with you in your laptop case. The book does not come with a CD, nor does it tell where to get the pet sample program. The link to get this sample is: I have tried this program under Windows 2000 Professional and is rock solid except for couple files were reported to be missing when I use the verification option.

Blueprints for the rest of us

This book provides an excellent review of how to apply the myriad of J2EE apis to solve real-world problems. The book includes an excellent discussion of how to apply the Model-View-Controller Design Pattern to distributed object-oriented apps in Java. Specific rationale is provided for each design decision. This book is highly recommended for anyone considering J2EE as the backbone for an enterprise application.