J2EE and XML Development

contents
preface xi
acknowledgments xii
about this book xiii
about the authors xvii
about the cover illustration xix
author online xxi
1 Getting started 1
1.1 Distributed systems overview 2
Distributed systems concepts 3 N-tier application
architecture 12 Overcoming common
challenges 14
1.2 The J2EE development process 22
J2EE and development methodologies 22
J2EE development tools 24
1.3 Testing and deployment in J2EE 29
Testing J2EE applications 29
Deploying J2EE applications 33
1.4 Summary 35
2 XML and Java 37
2.1 XML and its uses 38
XML validation technologies 41 XML parsing
technologies 44 XML translation technologies 46
Messaging technologies 48 Data manipulation
and retrieval technologies 51 Data storage
technologies 54
2.2 The Java APIs for XML 55
JAXP 57 JDOM 66 JAXB 69
Long Term JavaBeans Persistence 74
JAXM 76 JAX-RPC 77 JAXR 78
2.3 Summary 78
3 Application development 81
3.1 XML component interfaces 82
Using value objects 84 Implementing XML value
objects 87 When not to use XML interfaces 95
3.2 XML and persistent data 96
Querying XML data 97 Storing XML data 103
When not to use XML persistence 110
3.3 Summary 110
4 Application integration 113
4.1 Integrating J2EE applications 114
Traditional approaches to systems integration 114
XML-based systems integration 122
4.2 A web services scenario 125
4.3 J2EE and SOAP 125
Creating a simple SOAP message 126
Using SOAP with Attachments 129
Using JAXM for SOAP Messaging 131
4.4 Building web services in J2EE 138
What is a web service? 139 Providing web services in
J2EE 140 Implementing our example web
services 142 Consuming web services in J2EE 153
J2EE web services and Microsoft .NET 153
4.5 Summary 154
5 User interface development 157
5.1 Creating a thin-client user interface 158
Serving different types of devices 159 Serving
multiple locales 159 An example to work
through 160
5.2 The pure J2EE approach 162
The J2EE presentation tool kit 163
Issues in J2EE MVC architecture 164
Building our example in J2EE 166
Analyzing the results 177
5.3 The J2EE/XML approach 177
Adding XSLT to the web process flow 177
Analyzing the results 185
Extending to binary formats 186
5.4 XML web publishing frameworks 195
Introduction to Cocoon architecture 196
Using Cocoon to render the watch list page 197
Analyzing the results 200
5.5 A word about client-side XSLT 201
5.6 Summary 201
6 Case study 203
6.1 Case study requirements 204
6.2 The application environment 206
6.3 The analysis phase 207
Services and data layer analysis 207 Data storage
analysis 208 Other necessary components 208
6.4 The design phase 210
Designing the application logic layer 210
Designing the user interface 212
6.5 Validating our design 213
6.6 The implementation phase 215
Building the controller servlet 215 Building the
ApplicationMenu component 217 Building the
ComponentLocator 218 Building the
BugAccessorBean 221 Building the
XSLTFilter 223
6.7 Structuring application data 224
6.8 The Amaya web service 225
6.9 Running the application 229
Installation 229 Viewing the main menu 230
Viewing common system problems 231 Viewing and
updating the Amaya problem list 231 Inspecting the
web services SOAP messages 232
6.10 Summary 233
appendix A Design patterns for J2EE and XML 235
appendix B Distributed application security 243
appendix C The Ant build tool 249
resources 265
index 269



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