Professional Apache Geronimo

By Jeff Genender, Sing Li, Bruce Snyder

Geronimo is a popular production-grade Open Source J2EE 1.4 certified server available free of charge. It is the only server of its kind licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0, allowing free adaptation and modification for commercial or non-commercial use. The server is well-supported internationally by a large base of users, developers, and support vendors. Geronimo can host a variety of server applications. It comes equipped with a relational database server and message broker, enabling you to immediately deploy your enterprise applications. With all this potential, getting started with Geronimo can be a daunting task. This team of experienced authors has crafted a book to make your experience with Geronimo go smoothly -- and they've packed it with numerous examples of configuration and deployment for the Geronimo server. Whether you've been using a commercial J2EE server or this is your first encounter with an application server, you'll quickly learn what Geronimo can do for your environment. What you will learn from this book * How to configure and deploy a J2EE application on Geronimo * Ways to download, install, configure, and secure the server * Expert tips on server customization and tuning * How to use the various administrative, management, and troubleshooting tools that accompany Geronimo * How to take advantage of the highly modular architecture of the Geronimo server, and how it works inside Who this book is for This book is for managers, administrators, and developers who are either considering Geronimo for possible production deployment, or are already using Geronimo and are looking for a way to kick-start the implementation process. Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471785431
• ISBN13: 9780471785439
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Well Balanced, Great Examples

This book is well balanced in its discussion of history, XML, XSL, XLink, displaying XML, and case studies. The historical introduction is well done, and doesn't drag on and on. The discussion of XML is written in english, building with simple examples to more complex. The case studies were all using Microsoft products, but concrete examples really illustrated key XML concepts. Although the discussion of XSL is probably...

xml for programers

This is a typical wrox book: covers mostly microsoft material, good code examples. You can read about XML from resources on the web, but this book gives you an idea on how actual applications may be implemented, at a time where there is little published browser support. 4 stars for the material, 1 for the timing.