Bitter EJB Book

	Preface	xv
	Acknowledgments	xviii
	About this book	xxii
Part 1	The basics	1
1	Bitter choices	3
1.1	A storm of controversy	5
1.2	A history of EJB antipatterns	6
1.3	A case study: Benchmarking PetStore	9
1.4	Antipattern: The Golden Hammer	12
1.5	Summary: Looking ahead	19
1.6	Antipatterns in this chapter	20
2	The bitter cost	21
2.1	Sparking controversy	22
2.2	Antipattern: A Sledgehammer for a Fly	30
2.3	Entity beans are a horse of a different color	41
2.4	Entity beans: Take two	43
2.5	Entity beans--a closer look	45
2.6	Summary	50
2.7	Antipatterns in this chapter	51
3	Bitter interfaces	52
3.1	Building a good interface	53
3.2	Designing the application tier	57
3.3	Antipattern: Local & Remote Interfaces Simultaneously	60
3.4	Antipattern: Customers in the Kitchen	66
3.5	Antipattern: Custom DTOs	73
3.6	Summary	77
3.7	Antipatterns in this chapter	78
Part 2	Sessions and messages	81
4	Bitter sessions	83
4.1	Threading and synchronization	85
4.2	Handling exceptions	92
4.3	Iterating large datasets	99
4.4	Interoperating efficiently	111
4.5	Summary	120
4.6	Antipatterns in this chapter	121
5	Bitter session states	126
5.1	Making a case for session state	128
5.2	A pivotal antipattern: Conversational Baggage	129
5.3	Managing sessions with stateful session beans	134
5.4	Managing sessions with servlets	140
5.5	Antipattern: Golden Hammers of Session State	143
5.6	Mini-antipattern: Stateful Session Beans as Shared Data Caches	151
5.7	Antipattern: Session Hodgepodge	152
5.8	Mini-antipattern: Session Thrashing	155
5.9	Mini-antipattern: Rotting Session Garbage	155
5.10	Summary: Taming the beast	156
5.11	Antipatterns in this chapter	157
6	Bitter messages	162
6.1	A brief overview of JMS	163
6.2	An early antipattern: Fat Messages	165
6.3	Mini-antipattern: Skinny Messages	169
6.4	Seeds of an order processing system	171
6.5	Antipattern: XML as the Silver Bullet	177
6.6	Antipattern: Packrat	179
6.7	Mini-antipattern: Immediate Reply Requested	182
6.8	Using message-driven beans (MDBs)	184
6.9	Antipattern: Monolithic Consumer	188
6.10	Antipattern: Hot Potato	191
6.11	Antipattern: Slow Eater	194
6.12	Antipattern: Eavesdropping	195
6.13	Antipattern: Performance Afterthoughts	199
6.14	Summary: Getting the message	201
6.15	Antipatterns in this chapter	202
Part 3	EJB persistence	211
7	Bitter entities	213
7.1	Understanding entity bean antipatterns	214
7.2	Antipattern: Face Off	215
7.3	Antipattern: Ham Sandwich; Hold the Ham	222
7.4	Antipattern: Application Joins	228
7.5	Antipattern: Application Filters	230
7.6	Antipattern: Rusty Keys	233
7.7	Antipattern: Revolving Doors	235
7.8	Summary	239
7.9	Antipatterns in this chapter	240
8	Bitter alternatives	245
8.1	Understanding entity bean alternatives	246
8.2	Using EJB persistence	249
8.3	Simplify with JDBC	260
8.4	Using object persistence frameworks	267
8.5	Antipattern: Persistent Problems	275
8.6	Solution: Do not "inherit" a persistence architecture--choose it	282
8.7	Summary	283
8.8	Antipatterns in this chapter	284
Part 4	Broader topics	285
9	Bitter tunes	287
9.1	Measures of success	289
9.2	Antipattern: Premature Optimization	291
9.3	Antipattern: Performance Afterthoughts	296
9.4	Grist for the tuning mill	298
9.5	Antipattern: Thrash-tuning	303
9.6	Mini-antipattern: Manual Performance Testing	305
9.7	Automated performance testing with JUnitPerf	307
9.8	Modeling performance	315
9.9	Mini-antipattern: Stage Fright	317
9.10	Summary: Tuning with confidence	318
9.11	Antipatterns in this chapter	319
10	Bitter builds	324
10.1	Wrapping big packages without bows	326
10.2	Antipattern: System Loaded Application Classes	332
10.3	Antipattern: EJB Code Duplication	332
10.4	Antipattern: Build Guru	337
10.5	Antipattern: Running with Scissors	339
10.6	Antipattern: Integration Hell	341
10.7	Summary	342
10.8	Antipatterns in this chapter	343
11	A bittersweet future	348
11.1	Marking our place in history	349
11.2	Plotting the next moves	351
11.3	Antipatterns and next moves	355
A	Bitter tales	356
A.1	A Java development free fall	357
	Antipatterns in life	359
A.2	Using design patterns accentuates the positive	360
	Design patterns online	361
	UML provides a language for patterns	362
A.3	Antipatterns teach from the negative	362
	Some well-known antipatterns	363
	Antipatterns in practice	364
	Antipattern resources	365
A.4	Antipattern ideas are not new	366
	Learning from the industry	367
	Detective work	368
	Refactoring antipatterns	370
A.5	Why Bitter Java?	370
	The Bitter Java approach	371
	Bitter Java tools	371
	The Bitter Java organization	372
	The Bitter Java audience	373
A.6	Looking ahead	374
B	Bitter basics	376
B.1	Developing in the EJB architecture	378
	Getting acquainted with the cast, the bean triad	378
	Know your host, the EJB container	381
B.2	Crafting enterprise beans	384
	Defining the client interfaces	385
	Implementing the business logic	390
	Playing it safe with transactions	397
	Configuring the bean	397
	Packaging it	399
	Invoking your beans from a client	400
	Bibliography	401
	Index	403