Java EE Development using GlassFish Application Server by David Heffelfinger

The complete guide to installing and configuring the GlassFish Application Server and developing Java EE 5 applications deployed to this server

GlassFish is a free open-source Java EE 5 compliant application server that is quickly gaining a massive popularity. This book explains GlassFish installation and configuration, and then moves on to Java EE 5 application development covering all major Java EE 5 APIs. The book aims to speed up the reader in Java EE 5 development.

This book will guide you through the development and deployment of Java EE 5 compliant applications 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.

What you will learn from this book

• How to install and configure GlassFish
• How to develop web applications using JSPs, JSTL, Servlets and JSF
• How to develop applications that interact with relational database systems through the Java Persistence API and JDBC
• How to develop applications using EJB 3, including how to take advantage of container-managed transactions and EJB declarative security through annotations
• How to implement messaging applications through the JMS API
• How to secure Java EE applications via the JAAS API, including how to implement custom security realms
• How to build applications using frameworks that build on top of the Java EE 5 specification, including Seam, Facelets and Ajax4jsf

Who this book is written for

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 their applications.

Packt Publishing are now offering a free sample chapter of the book which can be downloaded from their site.

Further details of the book are available from Packt Publishing

Java EE 5 Development using GlassFish Application Server, ISBN: 978-1-847192-60-8