JAVA TOOLS - USING XML, EJB, CORBA, SERVLETS & SOAP

This unique book provides an overview of all four technologies required for building e-commerce applications and demonstrates how they combine with each other to best effect.
* A single running example (an electronic retail application) demonstrates how the techniques work in practice
* Coverage of Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) and Java Server Pages (JSP)
* Pragmatic and practical approach with very little theory
* The companion Web Site provides all source code used in the book
* Find out about integration issues and discover which technology is best suited for your needs

ANDREAS EBERHART is a Research Associate at the International University in Germany. He teaches courses on databases, transaction processing, and distributed application development. Before joining the International University he worked as a software engineer in the industry.

STEFAN FISCHER is a professor for distributed systems at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. He has authored and co-authored a number of books on application development in networks and distributed systems as well as on network security.

Introduction.

SECTION I.

Distributed applications.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

Java as a programming language for distributed applications.

JDBC - database access with Java.

SECTION II.

Principles of the servlet technology.

Tool support for servlets.

A sample application with servlets.

SECTION III.

Basic principles of CORBA.

Java Tools for CORBA.

The sample application in CORBA.

SECTION IV.

The basics of Enterprise Java Beans (EJB).

Tools for Enterprise Java Beans.

EJB example.

SECTION V.

XML - the new ASCII.

Tool support for XML.

The sample application with XML.

Business-to-business applications.

SECTION VI.

Related solutions - differences and similiarities.

Technology interaction.

Appendix A: JDBC reference.

Appenidx B: Servlet objects.

Appendix C: Java Server Pages (JSP).

Appendix D: Interface Description Language (IDL).

Appendix E: Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2.

Appendix F: XPath.

Appendix G: Bibliography.

Appendix H: How to use the Web site for this book.

Index.