Java Studio Creator Field Guide

Sun's Java Studio Creator (formerly Project Rave) offers you a remarkably productive visual environment for building, integrating, and delivering business-critical applications. Direct from Sun, Java&#153Studio Creator Field Guide is your definitive guide to Java Studio Creator. Leading Java platform instructors and consultants Gail and Paul Anderson help you use Java Studio Creator to simplify and accelerate your entire development process.

One step at a time, the Andersons walk you through

• Mastering Java Studio Creator's interface and workflow
• Simplifying Web development with JavaServer™ Faces components, validators, and data converters
• Controlling Web application page flow with the Page Navigation editor
• Building Creator projects with JavaBeans™ components
• Accessing Web services using

• Using databases and data-aware components—including detailed coverage of new JDBC™ RowSets
• Customizing applications: localization, internationalization, and custom validation
• Debugging with Creator's built-in debugger

With Java Studio Creator and this book, you'll spend less time on application "plumbing"—leaving more time for the high-value tasks you really care about. Simply put, you'll get more done, faster...and have more fun doing it.

Appropriate for beginning web developers, this guide explains the Java programming language and technologies, tours the window views in the new Creator IDE, and catalogs the JavaServer Faces (JSF) standard components. It then shows how to build Creator projects with JavaBeans components, access a web service from a Creator application, and tie a database into a web application. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Paul Anderson, founding member of the Anderson Software Group, specializes in making software engineering understandable. He has taught courses at IBM, AT&T, Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard, the U.S. Navy, Qualcomm, and other leading firms. Together, Paul and Gail Anderson have coauthored The UNIX C Shell Field Guide, Navigating C++ and Object-Oriented Design, and Enterprise JavaBeans Component Architecture.

Gail Anderson, founding member and Director of Research at Anderson Software Group, specializes in Java, UNIX/Linux, C, C++, and object-oriented design. She has developed courseware on EJB, JSP, servlets, JDBC, and UML. Together, Gail and Paul Anderson have coauthored The UNIX C Shell Field Guide, Navigating C++ and Object-Oriented Design, and Enterprise JavaBeans Component Architecture.