Java tools : using XML, EJB, CORBA, Servlets and SOAP

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Eberhart, Andreas

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Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, 2002

ISBN:

9780471486664

Subject Term:

Java (Computer program language)

Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing

Added Author:

Fischer, Stefan

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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

Author Notes

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.

Chapter 1 Introduction	p. 1
1.1 Motivation	p. 1
1.2 Structure of the book	p. 3
Section I
Chapter 2 Distributed applications	p. 7
2.1 A short history of information technology	p. 7
2.2 Principles and characteristics of distributed systems	p. 8
2.3 Applications on the Internet and the World Wide Web	p. 15
2.4 The architecture and characteristics of Internet and Web applications	p. 31
2.5 The sample application of the book	p. 35
Chapter 3 Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)	p. 37
3.1 Basics of HTML	p. 37
3.2 Language elements	p. 38
3.3 HTML tools	p. 48
Chapter 4 Java as a programming language for distributed applications	p. 53
4.1 Development of Java	p. 53
4.2 Object-oriented programming	p. 55
4.3 The most important language elements of Java	p. 59
4.4 Creation and execution of Java programs	p. 76
4.5 Java development environments	p. 77
Chapter 5 JDBC--database access with Java	p. 83
5.1 Features of database servers	p. 83
5.2 The relational data model	p. 84
5.3 The SQL query language	p. 86
5.4 Database access via JDBC	p. 88
Section II
Chapter 6 Principles of the servlet technology	p. 97
6.1 The development and task of servlet technology	p. 97
6.2 The architecture of distributed applications with servlets	p. 98
6.3 Servlet support in Web servers	p. 100
6.4 Generic servlet objects in Java	p. 101
6.5 Special servlets for Web applications	p. 105
6.6 Long-term connections	p. 107
Chapter 7 Tool support for servlets	p. 113
7.1 Java Servlet Development Kit	p. 113
7.2 Tomcat servlet engine	p. 115
7.3 Apache Web server	p. 117
7.4 Servlet development with Forte for Java	p. 117
7.5 Java Server Pages	p. 120
Chapter 8 A sample application with servlets	p. 125
8.1 The central database	p. 125
8.2 Functions	p. 130
8.3 Web design	p. 131
8.4 Interaction with the user	p. 132
8.5 The first servlet	p. 138
8.6 Encapsulated functionality in the book class	p. 142
8.7 Managing the client session	p. 145
8.8 The shopping basket class	p. 148
8.9 Managing the shopping basket	p. 150
8.10 Client management	p. 152
8.11 Completing the purchase transaction	p. 160
8.12 Navigation structure output	p. 168
8.13 Management of database connections	p. 171
Section III
Chapter 9 Basic principles of CORBA	p. 179
9.1 Distributed object systems	p. 179
9.2 CORBA - a standard for distributed object systems	p. 181
9.3 Architecture of CORBA	p. 181
9.4 Communication between objects	p. 185
9.5 General procedure for the development of CORBA applications	p. 191
9.6 Advantages of using CORBA	p. 194
9.7 From architecture to product	p. 195
Chapter 10 Java tools for CORBA	p. 197
10.1 The IDL compiler	p. 197
10.2 Anatomy of stubs and skeletons	p. 198
10.3 Object Request Broker	p. 202
10.4 Name servers	p. 205
10.5 Test run	p. 206
10.6 A tip for working with the JDK ORB	p. 207
10.7 Forte for java	p. 207
Chapter 11 The sample application in CORBA	p. 209
11.1 Overview of the architecture	p. 209
11.2 Transaction process	p. 210
11.3 The IDL interface	p. 212
11.4 The credit card client	p. 215
11.5 The credit card server	p. 219
11.6 Why a CORBA search interface?	p. 228
11.7 Transmission of book information with CORBA	p. 230
Section IV
Chapter 12 The basics of Enterprise Java Beans (EJB)	p. 239
12.1 Motivation	p. 239
12.2 Properties of EJBs	p. 240
12.3 Types of EJBs	p. 243
12.4 Development of EJB applications	p. 245
Chapter 13 Tools for Enterprise Java Beans	p. 247
13.1 The Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition	p. 247
13.2 J2EE specification for Enterprise Beans	p. 248
13.3 Special features of session beans	p. 254
13.4 Special features of entity beans	p. 257
13.5 Tools of the J2EE reference implementation	p. 259
Chapter 14 EJB example	p. 261
14.1 Development of a shopping cart EJB	p. 261
14.2 Modification of servlets	p. 273
14.3 Installation and use of EJBs and servlets	p. 276
Section V
Chapter 15 XML--the new ASCII	p. 283
15.1 The development of XML	p. 283
15.2 XML and related technologies	p. 284
15.3 Design goals	p. 287
15.4 What XML can and can not do	p. 288
15.5 EDI and e-commerce	p. 288
15.6 XML documents and Document Type Definition	p. 289
15.7 Elements	p. 293
15.8 Attributes	p. 295
15.9 Attribute default values	p. 299
15.10 When attributes, when elements?	p. 300
15.11 Is all this regimentation really necessary?	p. 301
15.12 Entities	p. 302
15.13 XML schema	p. 307
15.14 Xpath	p. 314
15.15 eXtensible Stylesheet Language for Transformations (XSLT)	p. 315
15.16 Presentation with stylesheet	p. 321
15.17 Other XML technologies	p. 325
Chapter 16 Tool support for XML	p. 331
16.1 Browsers	p. 331
16.2 Parsers	p. 332
16.3 Validators	p. 339
16.4 Creation and serialization of documents	p. 340
16.5 XSLT processors	p. 342
16.6 XSQL: dynamic Web pages with SQL and XSL only	p. 344
16.7 XML support in Forte for Java	p. 351
16.8 Apache SOAP	p. 352
16.9 Other tools	p. 353
Chapter 17 The sample application with XML	p. 355
17.1 Architecture	p. 355
17.2 The XML search interface of Books Online	p. 357
17.3 The XML agent	p. 361
Chapter 18 Business-to-business applications	p. 371
18.1 Interfaces and data structures of the marketplace applications	p. 372
18.2 The marketplace client	p. 374
18.3 The marketplace server	p. 378
18.4 Deployment of the marketplace services	p. 381
18.5 Starting the client	p. 381
18.6 B2B standards	p. 384
Section VI
Chapter 19 Related solutions--differences and similarities	p. 387
19.1 Creating dynamic Web pages	p. 387
19.2 Remote procedure calls	p. 393
19.3 Databases	p. 399
Chapter 20 Technology interaction	p. 403
20.1 HTML on HTTP	p. 403
20.2 XML and XSL on HTTP	p. 404
20.3 Solutions without logic on the Web server	p. 405
20.4 XPath-based solutions	p. 407
20.5 Remote procedure calls	p. 408
20.6 Scalable design of Web applications	p. 409
Appendices
Appendix A JDBC reference	p. 411
Appendix B Servlet objects	p. 419
Appendix C Java Server Pages (JSP)	p. 435
Appendix D Interface Description Language (IDL)	p. 439
Appendix E Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2	p. 443
Appendix F XPath	p. 455
Appendix G Bibliography	p. 461
Appendix H How to use the Web site for this book	p. 465
Index	p. 469

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