Audience: Web designers and IT experts actually designing, programming and maintaining web-sites, and interested in learning about web authoring techniques and best practices. No deep IT background is required to follow this excellent technical text.

Contents & Review: This excellent book is a technical overview and discussion of web authoring and web-site design, focusing on JavaBeans in detail. It is a valuable resource for the serious IT professional to learn about what Enterprise JavaBeans are, and what the applications are.

It explains and demonstrates the fundamentals of the Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0 and 1.1 architectures. Despite the fact that EJB simplifies distributed computing taks, web professionals need to study a great deal about this complex technology. This book provides professional support to accomplish that.

The book introduces Enterprise JavaBeans by placing this technology into the context of what is required and what is available to the system design and pweb-programming community today.

Then it goes into a more in-depth discussion on JavaBean development issues, covering: How top develop the first JavaBeans; The client view; What EJB is and the basic persistence; Entity relationships; The EJB query language (EJB QL); Container managed persistence for backward compatibility; Bean -managed persistence; The entity container contract; Session beans; Message -driven beans; Transactions; Design strategies; XML Deployment descriptors; The Java Enterprise Edition;

The conclusion is that if you are interested in a good technical text that covers Enterprise JavaBeans, then don't go further. this is the text you need!

The Appendix contains a useful summary of The Enterprise JavaBeans API; State and sequence diagrams, and EJB vendors.

There is also an Index.