Developing Component-Based Distributed Applications

Addison Wesley Longman

by: Tom Valesky

Enterprise JavaBeans™ facilitates the development of distributed Java™ applications, providing an object-oriented transactional environment for building distributed, component-based, multitier enterprise applications.

Enterprise JavaBeans is designed to get you up-to-speed quickly, focusing on the exact information you need to become an effective Enterprise JavaBeans programmer. This example-filled book serves as an introduction and tutorial, and provides the in-depth information you need to handle real-world programming challenges.

This book presents an overview of the architecture, using a "Hello, world!" Enterprise JavaBeans system to illustrate basic concepts. The book then moves on to cover Session and Entity beans, how to write client programs that use Enterprise JavaBeans, and the packaging and deploying of Enterprise JavaBeans. You will find precise explanations on specific topics such as:

The differences between stateful and stateless beans, The differences between bean-managed and container-managed Entity beans; How to call a bean from a servlet, another bean, or an applet

How to obtain and examine Enterprise JavaBeans metadata, How to identify deployment descriptors and the values they contain, How to use access control lists to set up permissions on an Enterprise JavaBeans server, How a bean can retrieve and test a client's identity.

Enterprise JavaBeans gives you the background you need to use the system productively in your daily work and puts you on the fast track to mastering Enterprise JavaBeans techniques.

OSBORNE/MCGRAW-HILL RELEASES DEFINITIVE INTERNET GUIDE FOR THE YEAR 2000

Best-Selling Author Margaret Levine Young Covers the Latest Internet Technologies

Berkeley, CA, February 17, 1999 - Get ready for Y2K with Internet: The Complete Reference, Millennium Edition ($39.99), released today from Osborne/McGraw-Hill. Written by worldwide best-selling Internet expert and author Margaret Levine Young, this all-inclusive Internet resource has been completely rewritten to cover the latest tools and technologies so Internet users can stay ahead of the future.

According to International Data Corporation, the Internet economy will surge to more than $500 billion by the year 2002. With Internet: The Complete Reference, Millennium Edition, Internet users of all levels can get connected, choose an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and Web browser, send e-mail, chat, use plug-ins, purchase goods safely, find tons of helpful and fun information online, and even create a Web site.

"In the last five years, the Internet has had explosive growth in the number of users, the amount of information that it makes available, and the number of different programs you can use-and the next millennium promises continued expansion," said author Margaret Levine Young. "Internet: The Complete Reference, Millennium Edition gives users a valuable insight into the future of the Internet, and shows how to make the most of it in the years to come."

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