Java EE 5 Development with NetBeans 6

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Java EE 5, the successor to J2EE, greatly simplifies the development of enterprise applications. The popular IDE, NetBeans, has several features that greatly simplify Java EE 5 development, and this book shows you how to make use of these features to make your Java programming more efficient and productive than ever before. With many features and great flexibility, the Java developer can become overwhelmed by the options available in NetBeans, This book helps you get control of the environment, and make it work for you so that you can concentrate on the important parts of your application.

This book takes you through the most important parts of Java EE 5 programming and, with clear, careful instructions and screenshots, shows you how to use the features of NetBeans that will improve your development experience. This book will not only show you time-saving tricks, keyboard shortcuts and other productivity enhancements possible with NetBeans, it will take you through the major Java EE 5 APIs and how to get them working in the NetBeans environment.

While focusing on NetBeans features, you will learn about developing applications using the servlet API and JSPs, including taking advantage of JSTL and developing custom JSP tags. Developing applications that take advantage of JavaServer Faces is also covered in detail, including how to generate standard JSF applications from an existing database schema. The book also covers how to easily develop elegant JSF applications by taking advantage of the NetBeans Visual Web designer.

What you will learn from this book?

• Develop Java web applications by leveraging NetBeans functionality
• Build standard JSF applications by taking advantage of NetBeans features
• Integrate NetBeans with third-party RDBMS
• Develop JavaServer Pages (JSPs) to display both static and dynamic content in a web browser
• Visually develop aesthetically pleasing JSF web applications with the NetBeans Visual Web designer
• Quickly and easily develop applications taking advantage of the Java Persistence API
• Implement the Model-View-Controller design pattern by using JavaBeans as the model component
• Take advantage of NetBeans functionality to easily develop Enterprise JavaBeans, including configuring transaction management via annotations
• Use static and dynamic navigation to define navigation between pages
• Utilize NetBeans to easily add messaging functionality to enterprise applications, through the Java Messaging Service API and through messag-driven EJBs
• Develop web services using NetBeans, including exposing EJB functionality as web services

DWR Java AJAX Applications

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AJAX enables rich desktop-like user interfaces in the browser and enables interactive interfaces that can even replace traditional user interfaces. DWR (Direct Web Remoting) is an Open Source Java framework for building AJAX applications. DWR’s main idea is to hide AJAX implementation details, like XMLHttpRequest, from developers. By using DWR, you can concentrate on developing the application and business objects and leave AJAX details behind the scenes where they belong. DWR allows server-side Java classes to be used in the browser and JavaScript functions to be used on the server (Reverse AJAX).

This book will show competent Java programmers how to work with DWR to create powerful AJAX applications. It starts with a tutorial on DWR’s main features and functions. Then it covers setting up the development environment. Finally, it concludes with some sample applications.

The later chapters are full of example code for sample applications, to aid comprehension.

What you will learn from this book?

• Will make your development faster and simpler by teaching you the features of DWR and implementing it with Reverse AJAX.
• Teaches you how to use DWR JavaScript libraries, Convertors, Creators, Filters and Signatures. Integration with other projects, and Security – factors which are essential to developing any DWR application.
• Specifies practical aspects such as supported browser and environments, configuration, setting up development environment, testing and debugging, error handling, packaging and deployment in a comprehensive manner, by demonstration where required.
• Provides a practical demonstration of creating a dynamic user interface, implementing tables and lists, and field completion for you to derive concepts from.
• Shows advanced elements of user interface through practical examples of creating forms, building a navigation tree, and map scrolling.
• Teaches back-end integration: integrating a database with DWR, integrating with web services, and integrating with a messaging system.
• Includes collaborative book authoring and chatroom applications, which show how easy it would be to enhance your applications to production grade using these samples as a starting point for development and as a source of ideas.

Creating Content Management Systems in Java

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In today’s fast-paced, information-packed world, it’s critical for businesses to organize and manipulate the data gathered from customers, sales, and product responses, etc. into usable information. Content Management Systems (CMS) can do this for your business easily and efficiently. There are several commercial systems available, but customizing one for your specific needs is usually necessary based on your data. Creating Content Management Systems in Java teaches you how to develop an open source CMS from scratch using XML as the storage mechanism, XSLT as the presentation layer, and Java and JSPs & Servlets to realize the multi-tiered architecture. The book also covers data modeling in XML and the use of XSLT as a presentation vehicle for custom XML formats. Creating Content Management Systems in Java is written for Web and software developers (specifically Java developers) who wish to learn more about the field of content management. The book provides a practical, applied perspective with complete demonstrations using code to show you how a solution or feature can be implemented. Throughout the book you will work through the development of a complete, open source, working CMS example, beginning with the conceptual ideas of content management. From there you’ll dive into the exploration of practical design solutions, and then move into the final implementations in each tier of the software that becomes the CMS. To benefit the most from this book, you should already know the Java programming language and have a basic understanding of the Web. You do not need to know XML, XSLT, CSS, or XHTML because these topics are covered thoroughly, although a basic understanding will be helpful. So, if you need to learn more about CMS development, this is the book for you.

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Service-Oriented Java Business Integration

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The goal of Java Business Integration (JBI) is to allow components and services to be integrated in a vendor-independent way, allowing users and vendors to plug and play.

Java Business Integration (JBI) is a specification aiming to define a Service Provider Interface for integration containers so that integration components written for these containers are portable across containers and also integrate with other components or services using standard protocols and formats. JBI is based on JSR 208, which is an extension of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE).

This book first discusses the various integration approaches available and introduces the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), a new architectural pattern that facilitates integrating services. ESB provides mediation services including routing and transformation. Java Business Integration (JBI) provides a collaboration framework that provides standard interfaces for integration components and protocols to plug into, thus allowing the assembly of Service-Oriented Integration (SOI) frameworks following the ESB pattern. Once JBI and ESB are introduced, we look at how we have been doing service integration without either of these using traditional J2EE. The book then slowly introduces ESB and, with the help of code, showcases how easily things can be done using JBI.

What you will learn from this book?

• Assembling services and porting them across containers using JBI
• Exposing EJB as a WSDL-compliant service across firewalls
• Binding remote services to ESB to be consumed internally
• Exposing local components in ESB like POJO as externally accessible WSDL-compliant services
• Providing a web service gateway for external consumers
• Accessing web services over a reliable transport channel like JMS
• Implementing web service versioning using ESB
• Implementing service aggregation at ESB
• Transactions, Security, Clustering, and JMX in ESB

JavaTech, an Introduction to Scientific and Technical Computing with Java

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JavaTech is a practical introduction to the Java programming language with an emphasis on the features that benefit technical computing. After presenting the basics of object-oriented programming in Java, it examines introductory topics such as graphical interfaces and thread processes. It goes on to review network programming and develops Web client-server examples for tasks such as monitoring remote devices. The focus then shifts to distributed computing with RMI. Finally, it examines how Java programs can access the local platform and interact with hardware.

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Covert Java : Techniques for Decompiling, Patching, and Reverse Engineering

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Developers face problems created by others every day – when asked to maintain someone else’s code, or when forced to use a third-party library without documentation. They might come across exactly the feature they need to implement but can’t get hold of the source code. They might spend frustrating hours trying different solutions that don’t work. Instead, the techniques in this book will teach developers to decompile, patch, and reverse-engineer applications, to better understand their implementation, and to work more efficiently with applications developed by others.

Covert Java offers a unique approach to solving common Java problems, from combating obfuscation in code, to patching core classes to change the intended function of an application. Each chapter focuses on a technique that solves a specific problem – outlining the problem, demonstrating the solution, then suggesting additional ideas for developers to test out the technique. Many chapters include anecdotal examples of the technique in action, and finish with summaries to ensure developers understand the most crucial points of the chapter.

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Flex 3 with Java

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Develop rich internet applications quickly and easily using Adobe Flex 3, ActionScript 3.0 and integrate with a Java backend using BlazeDS 3.2

• A step-by-step tutorial for developing web applications using Flex 3, ActionScript 3.0, BlazeDS 3.2, and Java
• Build efficient and seamless data-rich interactive applications in Flex using a combination of MXML and ActionScript 3.0
• Create custom UIs, Components, Events, and Item Renders to develop user friendly applications

• Build an end-to-end Flex e-commerce application using all major features of Flex covered throughout the book

Introduction to Computer Graphics: Using Java 2D and 3D

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Computer graphics comprises the creation and representation of simple graphical elements and images, as well as modern techniques for rendering a virtual reality. To apply these techniques correctly, one requires a basic understanding of the fundamental concepts in graphics. This book introduces the most important basic concepts of computer graphics, coupling the technical background and theory with practical examples and applications throughout. Its user-friendly approach enables the reader to gain understanding through the theory at work, via the many example programs provided. With only elementary knowledge of the programming language Java, the reader will be able to create their own images and animations immediately, using Java 2D and/or Java 3D. The features of this book include: computer graphics theory and practice in integrated combination; a focus on the increasingly used Java 3D (and 2D in the first section of the book); the use of many pedagogical tools, including numerous easy-to-understand example programs and end-of-chapter exercises; and, internet support for students and instructors, such as additional exercises, solutions, program examples, slides for lecturers and links to useful websites. It offers an an ideal, self-contained introduction to computer graphics and, is written for second year undergraduates and above. This reader-friendly, clear and concise textbook will be an essential tool for those studying Computer Science and Computer Engineering. Frank Klawonn has many years of experience teaching computer graphics and coordinating application projects with companies.

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