The Application Development Guide explains how to create and implement Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE™ platform) applications that are intended to run on the Application Server. These applications follow the open Java standards model for Java EE components and APIs. The Application Development Guide includes general information about developer tools, security, and debugging.
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| Chapter | Reviewers | Changes | Status |
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| Setting Up a Development Environment | Snjezana Sevo-Zenzerovic, Ludovic Champenois | Small but important changes to "Sample Applications" section since Prelude and Preview. | |
| Class Loaders | Sanjeeb Sahoo | Minor changes to "Application-Specific Class Loading" section. Some GFv2 sections uncommented. | |
| Using Ant with Enterprise Server | Lloyd Chambers, Kedar Mhaswade, Sankar Neelakandan | New "Setting Up Your Ant Environment" section. | |
| Debugging Applications | Ludovic Champenois | No changes since Prelude and Preview except some GFv2 sections uncommented. | Tim Quinn's comment applied. |
| Securing Applications | VB Kumar Jayanti, K Venu Gopal, Ron Monzillo, Jagadesh Munta QA | New "Message Security Provider Properties" and "Adding Authentication Mechanisms to the Servlet Container" sections. User management methods added to "Creating a Custom Realm" section. | |
| Developing Web Services | Bhakti Metha, Harold Carr, Anand Mishra QA, Eric Jendrock | "Web Services Registry" section deleted. | Bhakti's comments applied. |
| Using the Java Persistence API | Mitesh Meswani, Ming Zhang QA, Sherry Shen QA, Ian Evans | No changes since Prelude and Preview except some GFv2 sections uncommented. | |
| Developing Web Applications | Rajiv Mordani, Jean-Francois Arcand, Jan Luehe, Oleksiy Stashok, Dhiru Pandey, Sudipa Bhattacharya QA, Devika Gollapudi | Some changes to "JSP Caching" intro and "Virtual Server Properties." Some sections moved to the Administration Guide and the Scripting Framework Guide. | |
| Using Enterprise JavaBeans Technology | Mahesh Kannan, Marina Vatkina, Ian Evans | No changes since Prelude and Preview except some GFv2 sections uncommented. | Marina's email comments applied. |
| Using Container-Managed Persistence | Mitesh Meswani, Ming Zhang QA, Sherry Shen QA | No changes since GFv2. | |
| Developing Java Clients | Tim Quinn, Hong Zhang, Ken Saks | MANY changes since Prelude and some since Preview. | Tim Quinn's comments applied. |
| Developing Connectors | Jagadish Ramu, Shalini Muthukrishnan, Smitha Prabhu QA, Chinmayee Srivathsa | New subsections under "Advanced Connector Configuration Options" and new "Outbound Communication Support" section. | Jagadish's email comments applied. |
| Developing Lifecycle Listeners | Hong Zhang | Very minor changes since GFv2. | Hong's email comments applied. |
| Using the JDBC API for Database Access | Jagadish Ramu, Shalini Muthukrishnan, Smitha Prabhu QA, Chinmayee Srivathsa | New subsections under "General Steps for Creating a JDBC Resource" and "Creating Applications That Use the JDBC API." | Shalini's email comments applied. |
| Using the Transaction Service | Marina Vatkina, Smitha Prabhu QA | One small workaround added since Preview, "Distributed Transaction Recovery" still commented out. | Marina's email comments applied. |
| Using the Java Naming and Directory Interface | Jagadish Ramu, Shalini Muthukrishnan, Mahesh Kannan, Sanjeeb Sahoo, Smitha Prabhu QA, Chinmayee Srivathsa | New "Built-in Factories for Custom Resources" section. | Jagadish's email comments applied. |
| Using the Java Message Service | Satish Kumar | No changes since GFv2. | |
| Using the JavaMail API | Sanjeeb Sahoo, Mahesh Kannan | No changes since GFv2. |
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