EJB Design Patterns: Advanced Patterns, Processes, and Idioms

A lot of programming involves solving the same kinds of basic problems. Well, what if a community of experts got together and pooled their knowledge to come up with the best programming practices for solving these problems? You would have what are known as design patterns.
Author Floyd Marinescu, a leading expert on EJB, worked with the members of the EJB community of TheServerSide.com to put their collective knowledge together to build a library of design patterns, strategies, and best practices for EJB design and development. This treasure-trove of proven best practices will allow developers to quickly solve difficult programming assignments. Unlike other patterns books, this book goes beyond high-level designs to the actual code for implementing them, saving developers countless hours of time and effort when building scalable, reliable, and maintainable EJB systems.

Table of Contents

Foreword.

Introduction.

Acknowledgments.

About the Contributors.

Part One: EJB Pattern Language.

Chapter 1 EJB Layer Architectural Patterns.

Chapter 2 Inter-Tier Data Transfer Patterns.

Chapter 3 Transaction and Persistence Patterns.  

Chapter 4 Client-Side EJB Interaction Patterns.  

Chapter 5 Primary Key Generation Strategies.

Part Two: Best Practices for EJB Design and Implementation.

Chapter 6 From Requirements to Pattern-Driven Design.

Chapter 7 EJB Development Process: Building with Ant and Unit Testing with Junit.

Chapter 8 Alternatives to Entity Beans.

Chapter 9 EJB Design Strategies, Idioms, and Tips.

Appendix: Pattern Code Listing.

References.

Index.