| This book is a tutorial on Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). It’s about EJB concepts, methodology, and development. This book also contains a number of advanced EJB topics, giving you a practical and real-world understanding of the subject. By reading this book, you will acquire a deep understanding of EJB.
Make no mistake about it—what you are about to read is not easy. EJB incorporates concepts from a wealth of areas, including distributed computing, databases, security, component-based architecture, message-oriented systems, and more. Combining them is a magnificent stride forward for the Java community, but with that comes a myriad of concepts to learn and understand. This book will teach you the concepts and techniques for authoring distributed, enterprise components in Java, and it will do so from the ground up. You need only to understand Java to understand this book.
While you’re reading this book, you may want to download the EJB specification, available at http://java.sun.com/products/ejb/docs.html.
About the Authors Rima Patel Sriganesh is a staff engineer presently working in the Technology Outreach group at Sun Microsystems, Inc. She specializes in Java, XML, and integration platforms. Rima represents Sun at various financial services standards. She is a coauthor of three books and usually publishes her take on technology in the form of papers and blogs. She also speaks frequently at various industry conferences.
Rima graduated in Mathematics from M.S. University, Gujarat, India. She currently lives with her husband in the Greater Boston area.
Gerald Brose works as head of software development for Projektron, a software vendor that produces project management software. In previous jobs he has worked as a product manager, software architect, and researcher. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science.
Gerald is an expert in distributed object computing and middleware security, including CORBA, J2EE, and Web services. Gerald also coauthored Java Programming with CORBA, also published by Wiley.
Gerald is the maintainer of the JacORB project, the most widely used open source ORB for Java, which is part of the JBoss and JOnAS J2EE application servers. He lives with his wife and two sons in Berlin, Germany.
Micah Silverman has been a professional software architect and consultant for over 15 years. He has been developing with Java since its release in 1995. In that same year, he founded M*Power Internet Services, Inc., a consulting company providing software architecting, development, and security services. He has written numerous articles on software development, information security, and operating systems. |