J2EE Antipatterns

"The flip-side of Patterns, AntiPatterns provide developers with formal descriptions of common development gaffes that can derail a project along with practical guidelines on how to avoid them. In this book, the authors present dozens of Java AntiPatterns that tackle many of Java's biggest trouble spots for programming with EJB, JSP, Servlets, and more. Each AntiPattern is documented with real-world examples, code, and refactored (or escape-route) solutions, and the book uses UML (where appropriate) to diagram improved solutions. All code examples from the book are available to the reader on the book's companion Web site."

Intended for experienced J2EE developers, this book documents bad practices in the form of antipatterns. Each antipattern summarizes background information on the technology, identifies the symptoms and consequences of the problem, and provides a code example. The second half of each chapter offers a solution to each problem that list the steps to take, depicts the process in a diagram, and applies the technique to sample code. Distribution, persistence, JSPs, servlets, entity beans, session EJBs, messaging, and web services are covered. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

BILL DUDNEY is a Java architect whos been building J2EE applications for five years and distributed computing solutions for 14. He is co-author of Jakarta® Pitfalls (Wiley).

STEPHEN ASBURY is co-author of Developing Java™ Enterprise Applications and author of Enterprise Linux® at Work (both from Wiley), as well as four other books on development technology.

JOSEPH K. KROZAK is Vice President of Technology Development for Krozak Information Technologies, Inc., a supplier of advanced software solutions to Fortune 500 and mid-market companies.

KEVIN WITTKOPF has been a software architect and developer for more than seventeen years. He focuses on enterprise integration, Web services, messaging, and service-based architecture.