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[PACKT] Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 Application Server

Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 Application Server is another nice book from PACKT publishing.

It covers GlassFish administration. Then it talks about Java web technologies -- servlets, JSP, JSP STL, JSF. Also discusses database connections, Java Messaging Service, security of applications (you can find more about it in GlassFish Security book). The books also talks about EJBs and new possibilities in Java EE 6 -- contexts and dependency injection. In the last part it discusses JAX-WS and JAX-RS web services. And everything is accompanied with information how to do that with GlassFish application server.

I would very much recommend it to novice Java EE developers or just to developers, who want to have a glance on Java EE web technologies, JMS, Java EE 6 dependency injection, web services and how all that is configured in GlassFish application server. I would say, it is a crash course into Java EE.

The book is not covering each section is deep detail. But gives a broad view on different Java EE possibilities.

The book is full of working examples! What I very much like about it, is that it not only talks about the latest Java EE 6 technologies. But also briefly covers how application can be configured in order to work with older standards.