Scott Grant

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 little logic, a developer can simply create a JSP page containing standard HTML and a little logic. The JSP compiler will compile the page into a servlet, handling all the ugliness of those out.p... (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 facilit... (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 applica... (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 facilit... (more)