Designing Enterprise Applications with the J2EE Platform, Second Edition:

The second edition of Sun's best-selling book, Designing Enterprise Applications with the J2EE Platform, is now available online.

Introduction
J2EE Platform Technologies
The Client Tier
The Web Tier
The Enterprise JavaBeans Tier
Integrating with the Enterprise Information Systems Tier
Packaging and Deployment
Transaction Management
Security
J2EE Internationalization and Localization
Architecture of the Sample Application
Sample Application Design and Implementation [PDF]

Designing Web Services with the J2EE 1.4 Platform: JAX-RPC, SOAP, and XML Technologies:

This is the free online version of the latest book on building Service Oriented Architectures using J2EE 1.4 technologies from the J2EE BluePrints Team. Learn Guidelines, Patterns, and code for end-to-end Java applications.

Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Standards and Technologies
Chapter 3 - Service Endpoint Design
Chapter 4 - Client Design
Chapter 5 - XML Processing
Chapter 6 - Enterprise Application Integration
Chapter 7 - Security
Chapter 8 - Application Architecture

Ant has emerged as the preferred building tool for Java developers, automating tedious compilation, test, and code management. Many Java developers are aware of Ant but there is little documentation to assist in getting started with the Ant tool. Even experienced developers who already use some of the features of the Ant tool, struggle with the more advanced aspects. This book will educate those devlopers in these more advanced topics, and help them get more out of the tool. The Ant Developer's Handbook begins with a rapid introduction to obtaining, installing, and configuring Ant and covers all major feature sets and use practices. Ant is a cross-platform build and configuration management tool. It is written in Java, and uses XML as its file format, thereby allowing entire development teams to share Ant build files, regardless of the operating system each developer is using. Ant can perform nearly any common configuration management function, including: * compiling application source code. * running test suites and building archive files. * moving/copying files to server machines. * interacting with source control systems.

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