For intermediate to advanced Java developer, Java Enterprise in a short show how to work with all Java APIs that are relevant today. Part tutorial and part reference work that you can use everyday at your desk, this title is a valuable resource for any Java developer building Web or enterprise software. Focused, practical summary here on actual Java enterprise APIs helps distinguish text from the packaging. Coverage of Java capability to interface with legacy CORBA systems is only very good, with a full tour of Java IDL, CORBA services, and Remote Method Invocation (RMI). Updated with the latest standards from Sun, including JDBC 3.0, Servlet 2.3, and EJB 2.0, this is an essential primer for today's high-end (and high paying) Java. Both comprehensive and concise, this is a useful resource for anyone who works with hundreds and thousands of Java enterprise APIs on a regular basis Dragan. - Richard Topics covered: Introduction to enterprise computing with Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), survey of Java enterprise APIs, JDBC 3.0 (including database connections, ResultSets, prepared statements, BLOB fields, transaction support, stored procedure), JDBC Optional Package (and connection pooling), Remote Method Invocation (RMI) described (stub and skeleton of the building, dynamically loaded classes and remote object activation, RMI over IIOP), a remote object in-depth tutorial for Java IDL (with CORBA) and designing, the Java Servlet API 2.3 (servlet processing basic and servlet life cycles, chaining and filters, thread safety, managing state, cookies, servlets used with JDBC), JavaServer Pages (JSP): including custom tags, JNDI and directory tutorial (contexts, looking for objects, accessing and modifying directory entries) , Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 2.0 (conventions for entity, session beans and message, using transactions), Java XML API (DOM, SAX and XSLT), Java Message Service (JMS), point-to-point and publish-subscribe model messages, message selectors, JavaMail, reference to SQL and relational databases, RMI tools, reference to all IDL keywords, data types and declarations; CORBA services, Java IDL tool reference, Enterprise JavaBeans Query Language (EJB QL) 2.0 query language , and an alphabetical list of all APIs for Java enterprise programming (listing classes, methods, and properties).