Ejb 3 In Action

EJB 3 in Action is a fast-paced tutorial for both novice and experienced Java developers. It will help you learn EJB 3 and the JPA quickly and easily. This comprehensive, entirely new EJB 3 book starts with a tour of the EJB 3 landscape. It then moves quickly into core topics like building business logic with session and message-driven beans. You’ll find four full chapters on the JPA along with practical code samples, design patterns, and performance tuning tips.

Table of contents :
Part I Overview Of The EJB Landscape
· What’s what in EJB 3
· A first taste of EJB
Part II Building Business Logic With EJB
· Building business logic with session beans
· Messaging and developing MDBs
· Learning advanced EJB concepts
· Transactions and security
Part III Diving Into The Java Persistence API (JPA)
· Implementing domain models
· Object-relational mapping
· Manipulating entities with EntityManager
· Using the query API and JPQL to retrieve entities
Part IV Putting EJB 3 Into Action
· Packaging EJB 3 applications
· Effectively integrating EJB 3 across your application tiers
· Taming wild EJBs: performance and scalability
Part V Migration And Interoperability Issues

· Migrating to EJB 3
· Exposing EJBs as web services
· EJB 3 and Spring best practices for building and deploying scalable applications

Market Description :
· Accessible to the EJB newbie
· Informative for those with prior EJB experience

About Author :
Debu Panda is a Lead Product Manager of the Oracle Application Server development team, where he drives development of the Java EE container. He has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry and has published numerous articles on enterprise Java technologies in several magazines and has presented at many conferences. His J2EE-focused weblog can be found at debupanda.com.

Reza Rahman is an architect with Tripod Technologies, an IT solutions company focusing on Java EE in the Baltimore-NYC corridor. Reza has been working with Java as a language and Java EE as a platform since their inception in the mid-nineties. He has worked with both Enterprise Java Beans and open source tools like Spring and Hibernate, developing enterprise systems in the software, consulting, financial, Telecommunications, and manufacturing industries.

Derek Lane is the CTO of Semantra, Inc. He has worn various hats in his career including mentor, coach, architect, manager, developer, trainer, methodologist, and resident open source zealot. Lane is a contributor to projects of various shape and size as author, presenter, and technical reviewer. Lane is the founder of both the Oklahoma City Java User Group (OKCJUG) and the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas MicroJava User Group; and has been active as a member, presenter, and mentor for over a decade at various technology user groups across the Midwest and Southern U.S.