Server-Based Java Programming Ted Neward July 2000, Softbound, 592 pages ISBN Our price: $49.95 You can order this book from your bookstore by using the ISBN and title listed above.

Java on the server is here to stay. Whether you're using J2EE or writing your own, you will need to understand the fundamental concepts of server-based Java. Server-Based Java Programming teaches those concepts of Java that underlie the J2EE APIs and the best ways to use them. An ongoing focus on the full lifecycle, including administration and deployment, makes this book a rare, practical guide. One of its themes is the theoretical "three-zeroes" goal for server development--zero development, zero administration, and zero deployment.

Server-Based Java Programming isn't just about implementation--it's also about architecture, and design. You'll learn how to write the code that sustains a cutting-edge enterprise. You will learn nuts-and-bolts topics like ClassLoaders, threads, CORBA, RMI/IIOP, and JNI, as well as how to make each of these contribute to enterprise-wide goals such as fault-tolerance, easier system administration, five-nine availability, deployment without headaches, and lower development costs.

What's Inside:

• Concepts underlying J2EE such as:
  • EJB
  • Servlets
  • JDBC
  • JMS
  • JNDI
  • Lifecycle
• Data and code distribution with:
  • Servlets
  • Sockets
  • Serialization
  • Mobile objects
• Extensions
• Threads
• Distributing objects over a network
• Making servers robust and scalable
• Clustering, fault tolerance, and failover
• ClassLoaders
• System monitoring

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"The way the book details the (business object) model, and shows how to implement it in three different architectures, is excellent!"
          --Bruce Arbuckle, IT Consultant, Hewlett-Packard

"One of the many strengths of this book is that it goes through how things work in explicit detail."
          --Kito D. Mann, CEO Virtua Communications Corp

"Covers so much more than just the ABCs of server-side Java."
          --Curt Powell, President Sierra Ridge Software

"There's no other book like this one--every chapter will be valuable to me at one time or another."
          --Adam Smith, Programmer/Analyst Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University

"Very few software books surprise me, very few bring a perspective, and very few feel different from the others. This one does all three."
          --Stuart Halloway, DevelopMentor, from the Foreword