J2EE and XML Development

Kurt A. Gabrick, Manning Publications

ISBN:1930110308, Edition: 1st, 2002-04

Price: $39.95

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