Enterprise Java Computing: Applications and Architectures (SIGS: Managing Object Technology, Series Number 22)

Written by a seasoned Java expert, Enterprise Java Computing is the ideal hands-on reference not only for mastering cutting-edge concepts, but also for gaining valuable insights into practical design and deployment issues. Using this book, developers learn to: integrate relational databases with RMI amd servlets using JDBC; develop sophisticated servlet-based middleware; design multi-tier EJB applications; write Jini services; understand advanced issues regarding RMI and Java IDL development; and perform Java/legacy-system integration using JNI. This book empowers corporate developers to deliver mission-critical, real world Java applications. With 'Enterprise Java Computing' readers master the critical building blocks necessary for developing robust client-server applications, without getting bogged down in the specifics of the Java language and its syntax.

Seshadri is a leading Java technologist. He works as a senior technical architect for the object consultancy STR.

Terence Parr is a professor of computer science and graduate program director at the University of San Francisco, where he continues to work on his ANTLR parser generator (http: //www.antlr.org) and template engine (http: //www.stringtemplate.org). Terence has consulted for and held various technical positions at companies such as IBM, Lockheed Missiles and Space, NeXT, and Renault Automation. Terence holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Purdue University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Army High-Performance Computing Research Center at the University of Minnesota, where he built parallelizing FORTRAN source-to-source translators. He is the author of "The Definitive ANTLR Reference": http: //pragprog.com/titles/tpantlr.