Java FAQ Topics

EBook Description: Java FAQ Topics

What if you could condense Java down to its very best features and build better applications with that simpler version? In this book, veteran Sun Labs engineer Jim Waldo reveals which parts of Java are most useful, and why those features make Java among the best programming languages available.

Every language eventually builds up crud, Java included. The core language has become increasingly large and complex, and the libraries associated with it have grown even more.
Learn how to take advantage of Javas best features by working with an example application throughout the book. You may not like some of the features Jim Waldo considers good, but they�ll actually help you write better code.

Learn how the type system and packages help you build large scale software
Use exceptions to make code more reliable and easier to maintain
Manage memory automatically with garbage collection
Discover how the JVM provides portability, security, and nearly bug free code
Use Javadoc to embed documentation within the code
Take advantage of reusable data structures in the collections library
Use Java RMI to move code and data in a distributed network
Learn how Java concurrency constructs let you exploit multicore processors

Professional Java

Working as an effective professional Java developer requires you to know Java APIs, tools, and techniques to solve a wide variety of Java problems. Building upon Ivor Hortons Beginning Java 2, this resource shows you how to use the core features of the latest JDK as well as powerful open source tools such as Ant, JUnit, and Hibernate. It will arm you with a well rounded understanding of the professional Java development landscape.
The expert author team begins by uncovering the sophisticated Java language features, the methodology for developing solutions, and steps for exploiting patterns. They then provide you with a collection of real world examples that will become an essential part of your developer�s toolkit. With this approach, you�ll gain the skills to build advanced solutions by utilizing the more complex and nuanced parts of Java JDK 6.

Implementing SOA Using Java EE

The Practitioner�s Guide to Implementing SOA with Java EE Technologies

This book brings together all the practical insight you need to successfully architect enterprise solutions and implement them using SOA and Java EE technologies. Writing for senior IT developers, strategists, and enterprise architects, the authors cover everything from concepts to implementation, requirements to tools.
The authors first review the Java EE platforms essential elements in the context of SOA and web services deployment, and demonstrate how Java EE has evolved into the worlds best open source solution for enterprise SOA. After discussing standards such as SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, they walk through implementing each key aspect of SOA with Java EE. Step by step, youll learn how to integrate service oriented web and business components of Java EE technologies with the help of process oriented standards such as BPEL/CDL into a coherent, tiered enterprise architecture that can deliver a full spectrum of business services.

Implementing SOA Using Java EE concludes with a section length case study that walks through analyzing a companys requirements, creating an effective SOA architecture, and building a concise proof of concept prototype with NetBeans IDE. Coverage includes

Using Java EE technologies to simplify SOA implementation

Mastering messaging, service descriptions, registries, orchestration, choreography, and other essential SOA concepts

Building an advanced web services infrastructure for implementing SOA

Using Java Persistence API to provide for persistence

Getting started with Java Business Integration (JBI), the new open specification for delivering SOA

Implementing SOA at the web and business tiers

Developing, configuring, and deploying SOA systems with NetBeans IDE

Constructing SOA systems with NetBeans SOA Pack

Ajax on Java

This practical guide shows you how to make your Java web applications more responsive and dynamic by incorporating new Ajaxian features, including suggestion lists, drag and drop, and more. Java developers can choose between many different ways of incorporating Ajax, from building javascript into your applications by hand to using the new Google Web Toolkit (GWT).
Ajax on Java starts with an introduction to Ajax, showing you how to write some basic applications that use client side javascript to request information from a Java servlet and display it without doing a full page reload. It also presents several strategies for communicating between the client and the server, including sending raw data, and using XML or JSON (javascript Object Notation) for sending more complex collections of data.

The book then branches out into different approaches for incorporating Ajax, which include:

The Prototype and script.aculo.us javascript libraries, the Dojo and Rico libraries, and DWR
Integrating Ajax into Java ServerPages (JSP) applications
Using Ajax with Struts
Integrating Ajax into Java ServerFaces (JSF) applications
Using Googles GWT, which offers a pure Java approach to developing web applications: your client side components are written in Java, and compiled into HTML and javascript
Ajax gives web developers the ability to build applications that are more interactive, more dynamic, more exciting and enjoyable for your users. If youre a Java developer and havent tried Ajax, but would like to get started, this book is essential. Your users will be grateful.

Professional Java JDK 6 Edition

Working as an effective professional Java developer requires you to know Java APIs, tools, and techniques to solve a wide variety of Java problems. Building upon Ivor Hortons Beginning Java 2, this resource shows you how to use the core features of the latest JDK as well as powerful open source tools such as Ant, JUnit, and Hibernate. It will arm you with a well rounded understanding of the professional Java development landscape.
The expert author team begins by uncovering the sophisticated Java language features, the methodology for developing solutions, and steps for exploiting patterns. They then provide you with a collection of real world examples that will become an essential part of your developer's toolkit. With this approach, you'll gain the skills to build advanced solutions by utilizing the more complex and nuanced parts of Java JDK 6.

What you will learn from this book

How to use tools to make your work easier and more productive
Methods to develop effective user interfaces with Java Foundation Classes (JFC)
Steps to build web applications using the Model 1 and Model 2 architectures
Ways to interact with the databases and XML using JDBC and JAXB
Techniques for developing enterprise applications using EJB 3.0 and web services
How to package and deploy Java applications

Who this book is for

This book is for Java developers who are looking for an all purpose resource, are ready for more advanced Java solutions and language features, and need assistance when tackling new Java problems that may be outside their technological experience.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

Java: The Good Parts

What if you could condense Java down to its very best features and build better applications with that simpler version? In this book, veteran Sun Labs engineer Jim Waldo reveals which parts of Java are most useful, and why those features make Java among the best programming languages available.

Every language eventually builds up crud, Java included. The core language has become increasingly large and complex, and the libraries associated with it have grown even more.
Learn how to take advantage of Javas best features by working with an example application throughout the book. You may not like some of the features Jim Waldo considers good, but they'll actually help you write better code.

Learn how the type system and packages help you build large scale software
Use exceptions to make code more reliable and easier to maintain
Manage memory automatically with garbage collection
Discover how the JVM provides portability, security, and nearly bug free code
Use Javadoc to embed documentation within the code
Take advantage of reusable data structures in the collections library
Use Java RMI to move code and data in a distributed network
Learn how Java concurrency constructs let you exploit multicore processors

Java Message Service

ava Message Service, Second Edition, is a thorough introduction to the standard API that supports messaging - the software to software exchange of crucial data among network computers.
You'll learn how JMS can help you solve many architectural challenges, such as integrating dissimilar systems and applications, increasing scalability, eliminating system bottlenecks, supporting concurrent processing, and promoting flexibility and agility. Updated for JMS 1.1, this second edition also explains how this vendor agnostic specification will help you write messaging based applications using IBMs MQ, Progress Softwares SonicMQ, ActiveMQ, and many other proprietary messaging services. With Java Message Service, you will:Build applications using point to point and publish and subscribe messaging models Use features such as transactions and durable subscriptions to make an application reliable Implement messaging within Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) using message driven beans Use JMS with RESTful applications and with the Spring application framework

Java Developers

Do you want to create easily understood, professional, and powerful reports from disordered, scattered data using a free, open source Java class library? If your answer is yes, this book on JasperReports is what you are looking for.JasperReports is the worlds most popular embeddable Java open source reporting library, providing Java developers with the power to easily create rich print and web reports.

The book has been fully updated to use JasperReports 3.5, the latest version of JasperReports. Previously accepted techniques that have now been deprecated have been replaced with their modern counterparts. All examples in the book have been updated to use XML schemas for report templates. Coverage of new data sources that JasperReports now supports has been added to the book. Additionally, JasperReports can now export reports to even more formats than before and exporting reports to these new formats is covered in this new edition of the book.

This book shows you exactly how to get started, and develop the skills to get the most from JasperReports. It introduces you to the latest version of JasperReports, and gets you creating complex and elegant reports.

The book steers you through each point of report setup, to creating, designing, formatting, and exporting reports with data from a wide range of data sources, and integrating JasperReports with other Java frameworks.

Starting with the basics of adding reporting capabilities to your application and creating report templates, you will first see how to produce your reports through the use of JRXML files, custom ANT targets, and then preview them in both the web browser and the native browser of JasperReports.

Getting data into your reports is the next step, and you will see how to get data from a range of data sources, not only databases, but XML files, and Java Objects, among others.

You will create better looking reports with formatting and grouping, as well as adding graphical elements to your reports. You will export your reports to a range of different formats, including PDF and XML.

Creating reports will be made even easier with a walkthrough of the iReport Designer visual designing tool. To round things off, you will see how to integrate your reports with other Java frameworks, using Spring or Hibernate to get data for the report, and Java Server Faces or Struts for presenting the report.

All examples have been updated to use XML schemas. New export formats, such as OpenDocument Text, and new data sources now supported by JasperReports are now covered in this updated edition.

What you will learn from this book?

Overview of JasperReports, and what it can do for you
Significantly reduce your report design time by using the iReport report designer
Add reporting capabilities to your Java applications
Learn to ease the task of report navigation by adding hyperlinks, anchors, and bookmarks to your reports
Learn techniques to tweak the report layout and design, and add charts and graphics to your report
Generate database reports and learn to embed SQL queries into your report definition
Work with data sources such as arrays, collections, TableModels, and XML
Simplify report designing by using the subreports feature that allows you to extract complex report sections into a separate report
Export your reports to PDF, Excel spreadsheet, or Word document format, and direct HTML reports to a browser
Integrate JasperReports with Java frameworks like Spring, Java Server Faces, Struts, and Hibernate

Java Web Services Up and Running

This example driven book offers a thorough introduction to Javas APIs for XML Web Services (JAX WS) and RESTful Web Services (JAX RS). Java Web Services: Up and Running takes a clear, pragmatic approach to these technologies by providing a mix of architectural overview, complete working code examples, and short yet precise instructions for compiling, deploying, and executing an application.
You'll learn how to write web services from scratch and integrate existing services into your Java applications. With Java Web Services: Up and Running, you will:Understand the distinction between SOAP based and REST style services Write, deploy, and consume SOAP based services in core Java Understand the Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) service contract Recognize the structure of a SOAP message Learn how to deliver Java based RESTful web services and consume commercial RESTful services Know security requirements for SOAP and REST based web services Learn how to implement JAX WS in various application servers

Ideal for students as well as experienced programmers, Java Web Services: Up and Running is the concise guide you need to start working with these technologies right away.

About the Author

Martin Kalin has a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and is a professor in the College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University. He has co written a series of books on C and C++ and written a book on Java for programmers. He enjoys commercial programming and has co developed large distributed systems in process scheduling and product configuration.

1.Java Message Service

ava Message Service, Second Edition, is a thorough introduction to the standard API that supports messaging - the software to software exchange of crucial data among network computers.
You'll learn how JMS can help you solve many architectural challenges, such as integrating dissimilar systems and applications, increasing scalability, eliminating system bottlenecks, supporting concurrent processing, and promoting flexibility and agility. Updated for JMS 1.1, this second edition also explains how this vendor agnostic specification will help you write messaging based applications using IBMs MQ, Progress Softwares SonicMQ, ActiveMQ, and many other proprietary messaging services. With Java Message Service, you will:Build applications using point to point and publish and subscribe messaging models Use features such as transactions and durable subscriptions to make an application reliable Implement messaging within Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) using message driven beans Use JMS with RESTful applications and with the Spring application framework

Messaging is a powerful paradigm that makes it easier to uncouple different parts of an enterprise application. Java Message Service, Second Edition, will quickly teach you how to use the key technology that lies behind it.

About the Author

Mark Richards, Director and Sr. Technical Architect at Collaborative Consulting, LLC, is a leading authority on messaging, transaction management, systems integration, and Service Oriented Architecture. He is the author of Java Transaction Design Strategies, contributing author of 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know, NFJS Anthology Volume 1, NFJS Anthology Volume 2, and the author of numerous transaction, JMS, and SOA related articles. Mark is a regular conference speaker on the No Fluff Just Stuff conference tour and has spoken at other conferences around the world, including QCon, TSSJS, and SYS CON.

Richard Monson Haefel is the author of Enterprise JavaBeans (Editions 1 - 5), Java Message Service and one of the worlds leading experts and book authors on enterprise computing. He was the lead architect of OpenEJB, an open source EJB container used in Apache Geronimo, a member of the JCP Executive Committee, member of JCP EJB expert groups, and an industry analyst for Burton Group researching enterprise computing, open source, and Rich Internet Application (RIA) development. Today, Richard is the VP of Developer Relations for Curl, Inc. a RIA platform used in enterprise computing. You can learn more about Richard at his web site Monson Haefel.

David A. Chappell is vice president and chief technologist for SOA at Oracle Corporation. Chappell has over 20 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles including Architecture, code slinging, sales, support and marketing. He is well known worldwide for his writings and public lectures on the subjects of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), the enterprise service bus (ESB), message oriented middleware (MOM), enterprise integration, and is a co author of many advanced Web Services standards.

As author of the OReilly Enterprise Service Bus book, Dave has had tremendous impact on redefining the shape and definition of SOA infrastructure. He has extensive experience in distributed computing infrastructure, including ESB, SOA Governance, EJB and Web application server infrastructure, JMS and MOM, EAI, CORBA, and COM. Chappells experience also includes development of client/server infrastructure, graphical user interfaces and language interpreters.

Chappell is also well noted for authoring Java Web Services (OReilly), Professional ebXML Foundations (Wrox) and Java Message Service (OReilly). In addition, he has written numerous articles in leading industry publications, such as Business Integration Journal, Enterprise Architect, Java Developers Journal, JavaPro, Web Services Journal, XML Journal and Network World.

Chappell and his works have received many industry awards including the Java Technology Achievement Award from JavaPro magazine for Outstanding Individual Contribution to the Java Community in 2002, and the 2005 CRN Magazine Top 10 IT leaders award for casting larger than life shadow over the industry.

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