Beginning Java EE 6 platform with GlassFish 3: From Novice to Professional by Antonio Goncalves

Learn the new Java EE 6 platform from an expert enterprise developer and participant in the Java Community Process Java EE 6 expert group.

This book tells you all you need to know about Java EE 6, the latest version of the Java Enterprise platform.  Java EE 6 is richer in features yet more lightweight than its predecessors because it introduces profiles (subsets of the full platform).  Java EE 6 has become more portable by standardizing more components.  And Java EE 6 is easier to use, because development has been streamlined across the entire stack.

I wrote this book to share my experience of Java EE - I've been working with it since its creation.  Like many others, I tried other programming models when it put on too much weight.  With the arrival of Java EE 5, I recognized a major improvement.  So I decided to participate in the creative process and joined the JCP expert group for Java EE 6.  Now I want to share the benefits of this new and exciting release with you.

Beginning Java EE 6 Platform with GlassFish 3: From Novice to Professional takes you through all the most important innovations in Java EE's many constituent specifications.  You will learn how to map objects to relational databases with JPA 2.0, write a transactional business layer with EJB 3.1, add a presentation layer with JSF 2.0, and interoperate with other diverse systems through JMS, SOAP, and RESTful web services.  And all the code examples are specifically written to work with GlassFish 3, the very latest version of the Reference Implementation for the Java EE platform.

Antonio Goncalves

Expert member of the JSR-316 (Java EE 6), JSR-317 (JPA 2.0), and JSR-318 (EJB 3.1) groups.

Further details of the book are available from Apress

Beginning Java EE 6 Platform with GlassFish 3: From Novice to Professional, ISBN 978-1-4302-1954-5