Ebook: Building Java Enterprise Applications. Architecture

Volume 1 of this advanced 3-volume guide explores the infrastructure issues so important to good application design. It isn't just a book about Entity Beans and JNDI. It takes you step by step through building the back end, designing the data store so that it gives you convenient access to the data your application needs; designing a directory; figuring out how to handle security and where to store security credentials you need; and so on.