These practices include evaluating and selecting the right set of software components and services to handle the job. In this book, Darren Broemmer supplies you with a series of best practices for J2EE development and then teaches you how to use it to build an application architecture referred to as the reference architecture. Design and implementation of a reference architecture based on a set of guiding principles that are used to optimize and automate J2EE development. In addition to a thorough discussion of the latest technology writer for the J2EE implementation-including EJB 2, Jakarta Struts, Servlets, Java Server Pages, UML, design patterns, Common Business Logic Foundation components, and XML-Broemmer address such topics as: * Understanding J2EE application architecture * Building business applications with J2EE, a business object architecture, and extensible components created with design patterns * Designing and implementing a sample banking Web application * Integrating proven performance-engineering and optimization practices in the development process * Using metadata-driven, configurable foundation components to automate many development and processing of web based business applications Companion Web site contains the source code for the Common Business Logic Foundation and sample applications from the book, including a Jakarta Struts project and banking applications.