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Real World Java EE 6 Patterns--Rethinking Best Practices Reloaded 📎

A completely rewritten, second, iteration of the Real World Java EE Patterns--Rethinking Best Practices book is available.

Although I tried to prune as much content as possible, the book has now 431 pages--171 pages more than the first iteration. The reason for the extensive size growth is the discussion of several new Java EE 6 patterns and utilities like: Plugins, HTTP Events, Re-Injector, Custom Scope, Parallelizer (…).

The "Rethinking" book also comes with a transactional JCA 1.6 connector implementation--a simplistic key-value store. Most of the patterns are a "clean room" extraction from things that worked well in my daily consulting work. Some patterns are directly extracted from my open source projects like: http://lightfish.adam-bien.com or http://x-ray.adam-bien.com.

A Table of Contents says more than thousand words :)

  • A Brief History of Java EE
  • Understanding Java EE Core Concepts
  • Rethinking the Business Tier
  • Boundary (Application Service)
  • Control (Service/Session Façade)
  • Entity (Business Object)
  • Gateway
  • Fluid Logic
  • Paginator and Fast Lane Reader
  • Configurator
  • Re-Injector
  • Async Worker (Service Activator)
  • Parallelizer
  • HTTP Events
  • Transparent Cache Integrator
  • Aspect
  • Transaction Progress Listener
  • Scheduler
  • Binary REST Serializer
  • Plugin
  • Retired Patterns
  • Rethinking the Integration Tier
  • Data Access Object
  • Transfer Object and Data Transfer Object
  • EJB 2 Integration and Migration
  • Legacy POJO Integrator
  • Generic (File) JCA
  • Infrastructural Patterns and Utilities
  • Service Starter
  • Singleton
  • Bean Locator
  • Thread Tracker
  • Payload Extractor
  • Resource Binder
  • Context Holder
  • Custom Scope
  • Telemetry Provider
  • Logger Injector
  • Self-Invoking Beans
  • Late Starter
  • Pragmatic Java EE Architectures

The sample projects are already checked-in into: http://kenai.com/projects/javaee-patterns

Feedback is, as always, highly appreciated. But: I spent several days in word processor formatting the final version of the book, so all negative comments about formatting are going to be marked as spam :-).

See you at airhacks.com!