This is a one-volume resource perfect to get on board with some of the best ideas on the Java platform to build software company. While most books focus on Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and related standards regardless of specific (J2EE) Java 2 Enterprise Edition tools, zero titles this on IBM's popular VisualAge, and WebSphere products to build and deploy Java software. The material is more abstract about the best way to combine these front-end and back-end technology is anchored by the chapters that show how to use the real IBM tools. Sections on modeling EJBs, for example, shows you how to build real EJBs in VisualAge (including some good material on associations that will let you model even complex database schema with Java components). With fast-moving and useful tutorials on Servlet JSP and EJB standards, the authors also discuss layering components on the server to achieve the separation of presentation and business logic, a must for today's web applications. By anchoring the state-of-art-tour with Java samples using real IBM tools, this title provides what Java developers need to use the JSPS and EJBs effectively in real projects to solve real business problems Dragan. - Richard Topics covered: Survey of e-commerce for business Review computer architecture (from client / server to Web-based multitier system) Introduction to Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern ( including the application layer) and HTTP Servlet basics Introduction to IBM VisualAge for EJB development of the IBM WebSphere Test Environment (WTE) IBM WebSphere Application Server for EJBs (installing and configuration instructions and use XMLConfig) Managing session state IBM WebSphere Studio tutorial (including JSP development with Page) Designer Servlet design guidelines (including patterns, exception handling, Servlet chaining, and filtering) JSP tutorial (including expressions and directives) direct and indirect models for JSPS Using Beans with JSPS JSPS Testing and using Custom tag library for a Case Study Employee Timesheet Web applications (including use case and class diagrams) EJB tutorial (including session and entity Beans) How to use VisualAge to build EJBs (including object-relational mapping tool) Testing and debugging EJBs EJB clients and Container-managed Bean-managed persistence EJB Advanced transaction CMP mapping techniques (including associations) technique for layered applications in EJBs (using facade and factory classes) Deploying EJBs in WebSphere