Expert One-on-One Development without EJB; About the Authors; Contents; 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
Summary
The book begins by examining the limits of EJB technology - what it does well and not so well. Then the authors guide you through alternatives to EJB that you can use to create higher quality applications faster and at lower cost - both agile methods as well as new classes of tools that have evolved over the past few years
