| A lot of programming involves solving the same kinds of basic problems. Well, what if a community of experts got together and pooled their knowledge to come up with the best programming practices for solving these problems? You would have what are known as design patterns.
Author Floyd Marinescu, a leading expert on EJB, worked with the members of the EJB community of TheServerSide.com to put their collective knowledge together to build a library of design patterns, strategies, and best practices for EJB design and development. This treasure-trove of proven best practices will allow developers to quickly solve difficult programming assignments. Unlike other patterns books, this book goes beyond high-level designs to the actual code for implementing them, saving developers countless hours of time and effort when building scalable, reliable, and maintainable EJB systems.
It’s all about quality of life. Whether you’re a developer, architect, or project manager, at the end of the day we all want to feel good about building and deploying well-designed applications, without making costly mistakes, working long hours, and going through months of stress. At the end of the day, we are all human, we all want to see the project proceed on schedule and go home with enough free time to spend on anything we like.
Unfortunately, well-designed applications are not easy to come by when using new and still maturing technologies such as Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). In relatively new fields such as this, there is always a large deficit of information about designing good systems. Developers are either reinventing the wheel or simply making costly design mistakes on projects every day. With no clear set of best practices to follow, the job of the EJB developer is very difficult. Learning good design is particularly difficult for newcomers to the technology, many of whom have never built distributed systems before and don’t understand the fundamental needs that influence distributed systems design. |
