Scott Grant

In the last couple of years Sun has introduced a number of APIs targeted toward enterprise application development. One of the most exciting of these is the Java Message Service, or JMS. The JMS API is designed to do for messaging in the enterprise what JNDI does for naming and directory services and JDBC does for database access. JMS is an API that's designed to provide a common facility for enterprise messaging, leaving the underlying implementation of the messaging to whatever application server or other enterprise messaging software technology you wish to use. This is an exciting advance for those involved with the creation or use of message-oriented middleware (MOM) ­ and especially for Java developers who need to utilize such facilities within their own products. With JMS you should be able to write one set of code for messaging against the JMS API and then us... (more)

Using the Java Message Service with BEA WebLogic

In the last couple of years Sun has introduced a number of APIs targeted toward enterprise application development. One of the most exciting of these is the Java Message Service, or JMS. The JMS API is designed to do for messaging in the enterprise what JNDI does for naming and directory services and JDBC does for database access. JMS is an API that's designed to provide a common facility for enterprise messaging, leaving the underlying implementation of the messaging to whatever application server or other enterprise messaging software technology you wish to use. This is an exci... (more)

A Model View Controller Framework for JavaServer Pages

JavaServer Pages is a hot technology right now, as all Java developers are aware. In its simplest explanation, JSP provides the ability to combine Java code with HTML content to achieve dynamic content output from a single source file. Behind the scenes the JSP is compiled into a Java servlet that can be run in any compliant Java servlet engine/container. In essence, a JSP is a way to dynamically create a servlet with a large amount of HTML output and some Java code/logic. So instead of putting a large number of out.println(""); statements in a servlet with very l... (more)

Using the Java Messaging Service with Enterprise JavaBeans

One unfortunate aspect of the many enterprise APIs and specifications that Sun has released over the last few years has been the lack of information about how some of these APIs interact with one another. In particular, two very useful specifications ­ the Java Messaging Service (JMS) and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) ­ have been released and already implemented individually by many application server vendors. What wasn't considered in this process, at least at this stage, is how the two would (or should) work together. Enterprise JavaBeans is a server-side component architecture, w... (more)