Table of Contents

About the Authors.
Introduction.


Chapter 1: Why ?J2EE without EJB??


Chapter 2: Goals.


Chapter 3: Architectures.


Chapter 4: The Simplicity Dividend.


Chapter 5: EJB, Five Years On.


Chapter 6: Lightweight Containers and Inversion of Control.


Chapter 7: Introducing the Spring Framework.


Chapter 8: Declarative Middleware Using AOP Concepts.


Chapter 9: Transaction Management.


Chapter 10: Persistence.


Chapter 11: Remoting.


Chapter 12: Replacing Other EJB Services.


Chapter 13: Web Tier Design.


Chapter 14: Unit Testing and Testability.


Chapter 15: Performance and Scalability.


Chapter 16: The Sample Application.


Chapter 17: Conclusion.


Last words.


Index.

About the Author

Rod Johnson is an enterprise Java architect with extensive
experience in the insurance, dot-com, and financial industries. He
was the J2EE architect of one of Europe's largest web portals, and
he has worked as a consultant on a wide range of projects.

Rod has an arts degree majoring in music and computer science from
the University of Sydney. He obtained a Ph.D. in musicology before
returning to software development. With a background in C and C++,
he has been working with both Java and J2EE since their release. He
is actively involved in the Java Community Process as a member of
the JSR-154 (Servlet 2.4) and JDO 2.0 Expert Groups. He is the
author of the best-selling Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and
Development (Wrox, 2002) and has contributed to several other
books on J2EE since 2000.

Rod is prominent in the open source community as co-founder of the
Spring Framework open source project (www.springframework.org),
which grew out of code published with Expert One-on-One J2EE
Design and Development. He speaks frequently at leading
industry conferences. He is currently based in London.

Rod can be contacted at expert@interface21.com.
Juergen Hoeller is a Senior Systems architect and
Consultant at werk3AT, a company that delivers complex web
solutions and provides J2EE-based consulting in Austria.

Juergen has a masters degree in Computer Science from the
University of Linz, specializing in Java, OO modeling, and software
engineering. He has worked on a wide range of projects with
numerous J2EE application servers, ranging from enterprise
application integration to web-based data visualization.

Juergen has particular experience in developing J2EE web
applications, O/R mapping, and transaction management. Juergen is
co-lead of the Spring Framework and active in many community
forums, including TheServerSide.

Reviews

??practical and deep?you have to read if you have
any interest in J2EE, with or without EJB??
(VSJ—Visual Systems Journal, December 2004/January
2005)
??a valuable learning experience all round?
(Application Development Advisor, 1st September, 2004)