Mastering BEA WebLogic Server: Best Practices for Building and...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 768 pages
• Published by: Wiley
• Edition: 1st Edition August 18, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 047128128X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471281283
• Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
• Weighs: 2.5 pounds

Product Description

• Designed to show experienced developers how to become power developers with BEA WebLogic
• Covers BEA WebLogic Server version 8.1 and earlier versions
• A perfect companion to the bestselling book, Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans, Second Edition (0471-41711-4)
• Companion Web site includes technology updates and links to related sites

Back Cover Copy
"The book Mastering WebLogic is a technical tour de force that reveals WebLogics inner workings and provides solid, pragmatic advice for high volume production deployments. If you are serious about using WebLogic Server, you should read this book."
-Richard Monson-Haefel, author of Enterprise JavaBeans, 3rd Edition (OReilly 2001)

Written by leading experts in the field, this advanced-level book provides best practices for developing and deploying WebLogic Server 8.1 applications. The authors share their real-world experience with WebLogic Server and its features to help you understand not only how things can be done, but also how things should be done. They walk you through different design solutions, architectures, construction techniques, deployment options, and management techniques, explaining the benefits of each alternative. A realistic example application that leverages key technologies such as JSP, Jakarta Struts, JMS, EJB, and Web Services is also built and deployed to help illustrate selected techniques and best practices. Each decision made during the development and deployment of the application is discussed in detail, providing insight and direction for similar decisions in your own efforts.

The best practices presented cover a wide range of topics, ranging from Web application and EJB development recommendations to advanced administration, performance tuning, and configuration techniques. With these best practices, youll quickly learn how to:

• Choose an appropriate architecture for your WebLogic Server application
• Package and deploy WebLogic Server applications properly
• Leverage the latest EJB, JMS, Security, and Web services features available in WebLogic Server 8.1
• Deliver and troubleshoot scalable high-performance systems
• Configure and manage your development, test, and production environments for optimum productivity and performance

The companion Web site contains example code and installation instructions, a detailed walkthrough of a complete example application, and links to additional resources.

Reader Reviews
This is the best WebLogic book I have read till now. Author clearly states that this is not a beginners' reference, and I liked the book mainly because it is not; this book gets right into the meaty stuff without wasting pages and time on covering stuff that's splattered all over the internet in numerous free tutorials. This book covers WebLogic 8.1, touches upon features specific to WebLogic (not plain old J2EE stuff) and the coverage is pretty deep. For example, coverage of weblogic-tags taglib for JSP development, or the 'APP-INF' magic folder introduced in WL8.1 for application level libraries (oh, this was like a sore thumb in the previous WL releases and still is in J2EE spec) gives insight into advantages one gets using WebLogic over other J2EE platforms (much better than other books wasting pages and time on advantage of using 'a' J2EE platform). One of the features I loved about this book is the interspersed 'Best Practice' guides, you know reading a best practice guide by itself (like Floyd Marinesku's EJB Design Pattern) can sometimes get boring, here the best practices are put in perspective by discussing them in the right context, juxtaposing them with the problem these best practices address, along with code snippets and all, great job! The discussion on WebLogic clusters is the best I have seen till now and the config/architecture suggestions for development and production environments are very useful.