Adam Bien Bücher

The surprisingly successful book Real World Java EE Patterns-Rethinking Best Practices [press.adam-bien.com] discusses the rethinking of legacy J2EE patterns. Now, Real World Java EE Night Hacks walks you through the Java EE 6 best practices and patterns used to create a real world application called "x-ray." X-ray is a high-performance blog statistics application built with nothing but vanilla Java EE 6 leveraging the synergies between the JAX-RS, EJB 3.1, JPA 2, and CDI 1.0 APIs. Foreword by James Gosling, Father of Java

This pragmatic book offers the real world knowledge you need to develop lean and maintainable Java EE 5 / 6 applications. Real World Java EE Patterns - Rethinking Best Practices guides you to efficient patterns and best practices in a structured way, with code from real world projects.This book includes coverage of:An introduction into the core principles and APIs of Java EE 6 (EJB, JPA, JMS, JCA, JTA, DI, Convention Over Configuration, REST),Principles of transactions, Isolation Levels, remoting in Java EE 6 context,Discussion of superfluous patterns and outdated best practices like DAOs, Business Delegates, DTOs, extensive layering, indirections,Patterns for integration of asynchronous, legacy, or incompatible resources,Infrastructural patterns for eager-starting of services, thread tracking, pre-condition checks, Java EE 6 lookups or integration of third-party Dependency Injection frameworks like Guice,Fully functional JCA implementation with source code,EJB 2 - EJB 3 migration strategies