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Professional Java Data: RDBMS, JDBC, SQLJ, OODBMS, JNDI, LDAP, Servlets, JSP, WAP, XML, EJBs, CMP2.0, JDO, Transactions, Performance, Scalability, Object and Data Modeling
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Books : Professional Java Data: RDBMS, JDBC, SQLJ, OODBMS, JNDI, LDAP, Servlets, JSP, WAP, XML, EJBs, CMP2.0, JDO, Transactions, Performance, Scalability, Object and Data Modeling
by: Thomas Bishop, Glenn E. Mitchell, John Bell, Bjarki Holm, Danny Ayers, Carl Calvert Bettis, Sean Rhody, Tony Loton, Michael Bogovich, Mark Wilcox, Lin Kelly Poon, Nitin Nanda, Rick Grehan, Matthew Ferris, Kelly Lin Poon
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9781861004109
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 1861004109
Label: Peer Information Inc.
Manufacturer: Peer Information Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1300
Publication Date: 2001-06
Publisher: Peer Information Inc.
Studio: Peer Information Inc.
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Dedicated to the principle that more is more, Professional Java Data provides a far-ranging tutorial of today's Java database technologies that's ideally suited for any IT professional trying to make sense of what Sun's platform offers when it comes to databases.
With over 1,300 pages, this title might well be overwhelming, but it's not. The team of authors does a good job at keeping the material under control. For the first 100 pages or so, there's little mention of Java. Instead the authors provide an overview of the nuts and bolts of software and database design, including the basics of Unified Modeling Language (UML) and designing databases.
The organizing principle of this book is to bundle tutorial material on a wide variety of Java APIs that have to do with databases on a chapter-by-chapter basis. Core APIs covered here include JDBC (including connection pooling), plus an excellent guide to basic Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) development. In between the cracks, the authors manage to cover today's multitiered Web architectures while introducing servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP) for displaying database information in dynamically generated Web pages.
Other sections look at additional Java APIs, both established and emerging, which will help demystify these technologies for the busy programmer or IT manager. Included here are SQLJ (for embedding SQL calls inside Java code), ODMG 3.0 (for object-oriented databases in Java), and Java Data Objects (JDO), a new Sun standard for "persistent" Java classes. Along the way, the authors also manage to touch upon J2EE standards that provide the backbone for Web applications. (Material in this category includes JNDI, LDAP, and directory services, JTS and transactions, plus XML and messaging support.) There's even a peek at WAP and WML for programming wireless applications.
This title concludes with a variety of case studies that bring together various APIs covered in the rest of the book. The most ambitious of these is arguably an XML-driven Web portal that displays articles. By casting a wide net, the team authors of Professional Java Data manage to create a tutorial that doesn't have to be read cover to cover, but rather can be used to beef up your knowledge of what's arrived and what's on the horizon when it comes to Java used with databases. With a mix of approachable material on an extremely wide range of important technologies, this is a book that gives the big picture when it comes to Java databases, as well as delivering many of the details you'll need for actual development. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered: - Overview of the software development process (including waterfall, spiral, and object-oriented methods)
- Software configuration management (version control)
- Software defect and modification tracking
- Software quality (including peer reviews)
- Object-oriented analysis and design basics
- Overview of UML
- Data modeling basics (including logical and physical models, plus data dictionaries)
- Database design basics (including normalization, static vs. dynamic SQL, transactions, stored procedures, and triggers)
- JDBC tutorial (including connections, data types, result sets, and transactions, prepared statements, batch updates and JDBC escape syntax)
- The JDBC 2.0 Optional Package (including DataSources, JNDI, and connection pooling)
- Basic SQLJ tutorial
- Database performance issues
- Object-oriented databases in Java (the Object Database Management Group, ODMG, 3.0 specification and the Object Query Language, OQL, introduced)
- Directory services and JNDI (including LDAP basics)
- Overview of Web architectures
- Java servlet tutorial (including cookies, session tracking, and database access)
- Servlets and JDBC
- JSP tutorial (including basic syntax, JavaBeans, and database access)
- Basic XML tutorial (including the Simple API for XML, SAX)
- Introduction to WAP and WML
- Enterprise JavaBeans tutorial (including session and entity beans, transactions and the EJB 2.0 standard)
- The Java Transaction API (JTA) and the Java Transaction Service (JTS)
- EJB clients
- Scalability issues with EJBs
- Sample online PIM
- J2EE messaging
- Java Data Objects (JDO)
- Case studies for an XML-based Web portal
- An application for the statistical analysis of Web traffic and a Web data toolkit
- Basic SQL tutorial
- Java serialization APIs
- Overview of Java distributed applications
- Configuring Tomcat, JRun, and Orion
Product Description:
Java provides versatile technologies for data access and manipulation. This book investigates these technologies in detail and shows how they can be used to develop robust enterprise applications.
The book is divided into five sections, the first of which looks at data and object modeling. The second section investigates accessing data in relational and object oriented databases, and directory services. The focus of the following section is data presentation for web clients. The fourth section covers Enterprise JavaBeans and distributed applications. The last section of the book consists of four real-world case studies that build on the previous chapters of the book. Transactions, performance, and scalability of data applications are also discussed throughout the book.
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I mostly agreed with Eric Ma. There are some areas that Wrox needs to review the whole process of publishing Java-related books. Here are some drawbacks that I can draw from reading recent Java-related books:
(1) Repeated Contents: Materials about Servlet, JSP, EJB, JNDI, JDBC, XML, etc are repeated over and over many books. This could waste time, money, and papers for both Wrox and readers.
(2)Books or Articles?: I asked myself: is Wrox publishing books or articles? Each book is written by many authors and the book's flow is inconsistent. The assessment that it is not a book but a collection of articles may partially true. It is true that a book if written by a team of authors could speed up the process of releasing it, but if Wrox editors and coordinators have to do their better jobs.
I suggest that Wrox should review its strategy of publishing books to avoid the repeating of materials over and over and thus bring down the cost associated with publishing ... Read More
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For the past 2 years Wrox has been publishing books dedicated to Windows-based data access (ADO etc.), but the same cannot be said about their Java/database collection. Although you find chapters on JDBC scattered all-over almost all server-side Java related books by Wrox, there was no single volume from them that teaches JDBC first, and then show how it is used by the newer dependent technologies, until this book arrived. After looking through this book, I must say the authors and editors have done a rather commendable job.
Why do I make the above conclusion? Let me give you my general impression of the book first. A theme repeated in several of my recent reviews on books from Wrox is about the problem in coherence associated with multi-author books. Well, having more than a dozen of authors for a single book seems to be a fact of life (for books from Wrox at least) now, as the publication cycle gets shorter. I was rather surprised to find out that the organization and coherence ... Read More
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