Chapter 1 Introduction to Java Enterprise Best Practices

1. How Does a Best Practice Come About?

2. Can Best Practices Be Arguable?

3. What's in This Book?

4. About the Practices Themselves

5. Enterprise Java Programming Resources Online

Chapter 2 EJB Best Practices

1. Design

2. Implementation

3. Deployment and Packaging

Chapter 3 Servlet Best Practices

1. Working Effectively with Servlets

2. Caching with Servlets

3. Other Servlet Tips

Chapter 4 JDBC Best Practices

1. Configuration

2. Design

3. Code

4. General Database

Chapter 5 XML Best Practices

1. XML Authoring

2. SAX

3. DOM

4. JAXP

Chapter 6 RMI Best Practices

1. Marshalling and Unmarshalling Objects

2. Making Applications More Robust

3. Improving Application Performance

4. Further Reading

Chapter 7 Java Management Extensions

1. Naming

2. Instrumentation

Chapter 8 Enterprise Internationalization

1. Internationalization and Localization

2. Presentation Layer

3. Business Object Layer

4. Data Access Layer

Chapter 9 JSP Best Practices

1. Appropriate Usage of JSP in an Enterprise Application

2. Page Design

3. Caching

4. Error Handling

5. Custom Component Development

6. Deployment

Chapter 10 JavaMail Best Practices

1. Understanding Enterprise Email

2. Sending Email

3. Email for System Integration

4. Performance Optimization

Chapter 11 Enterprise Performance Tuning Best Practices

1. Performance Planning

2. The Performance Environment

3. Proactive Performance Management in Production

4. Efficient Distributed Computing Architecture

5. Tuning Procedure

6. User Perceptions

7. Tuning Techniques

8. Miscellaneous Best Practices

Chapter 12 List of Contributors