Project GlassFish was formally announced at the 2005 JavaOne conference. Version one of the GlassFish application server was released to the public approximately a year later, at the 2006 JavaOne conference. GlassFish version one became the reference implementation for the Java EE 5 specification, and as such, was the first available application server compliant with this specification.
While releasing the first available Java EE 5 application server was a tremendous accomplishment, the first version of GlassFish lacked some enterprise features such as clustering and High Availability. GlassFish version 2, released in September 2007, added these and other enterprise features, in addition to other features such as an enhanced web based administration console.
This book will guide you through the development and deployment of Java EE 5-compliant application on GlassFish version 2. It also covers application development using frameworks that build on top of the Java EE 5 specification, including Facelets, Ajax4jsf, and Seam.
Chapter 1 provides an overview of Glassfish, including how to install it, configure it, and verify the installation.
Chapter 2 covers how to develop server-side web applications using the Servlet API.
Chapter 3 explains how to develop web applications using JavaServer Pages (JSPs), including how to develop and use JSP custom tags.
Chapter 4 discusses how to develop Java EE applications that interact with a relational database system through the Java Persistence API (JPA) and through the Java Database Connectivity API (JDBC).
Chapter 5 explains how to use the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) when developing JavaServer Pages.
Chapter 6 covers how to develop applications using the JavaServer Faces (JSF) component framework to build web applications.
Chapter 7 explains how to develop messaging applications though the Java Messaging Service (JMS) API.
Chapter 8 covers securing J2EE applications through the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS).
Chapter 9 discusses how to develop Enterprise Java Beans that adhere to the EJB 3 specification.
Chapter 10 explains how to develop and deploy web services that conform to the JAX-WS 2.1 specification.
Chapter 11 covers frameworks that build on top of the Java EE 5 specification, including Seam, Facelets, and Ajax4Jsf.
Appendix A covers sending email from Java EE Applications.
Appendix B covers IDE integration.
This book is aimed at Java developers wishing to become proficient with Java EE 5, who are expected to have some experience with Java and to have developed and deployed applications in the past, but need no previous knowledge of Java EE or J2EE. It teaches the reader how to use GlassFish to develop and deploy applications.
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