The Java EE 6 Tutorial: Advanced Topics (4th Edition)

Sun's definitive, example-rich tutorial/references for JavaTM enterprise development have now been completely updated to reflect Java EE 6's most powerful new innovations and best-practice programming techniques. In this, the second of two volumes, Sun experts bring together dozens of advanced solutions designed to make the most of Java EE 6's improved technologies, APIs, and programming model. The authors provide a comprehensive knowledge base that any Java developer can rely on in building complex, large-scale applications that perform better, get to market faster, and can be more easily managed and upgraded. Volume II covers all these areas of enterprise development: " Advanced programming with Servlet 3.0, JSF 2.0, Facelets, JSP, and JSTL " Advanced Web services development with both JAX-WS and JAX-RS (RESTful) " Advanced Enterprise Beans: EJB interceptors, bean-managed transactions, and more, including Enterprise Beans as Web Service endpoints " Advanced Contexts and Dependency Injection " Advanced Java Persistence: derived identities, lock and cache modes, and bean validation " Advanced enterprise application security via Deployment Descriptors " Connector Architecture, Java Message Service, and more The book concludes with a comprehensive case study section presenting a realistic enterprise application project, "Duke's Bank," thoroughly revised to reflect today's advanced Java EE features and enterprise development best practices.