The forthcoming Winter 2015 semester brings another offering of PROG3060, Java Enterprise Applications at Conestoga College and with it another set of technology and resource updates.
With Oracle’s purchase of Sun Microsystems, the bundling of Java EE, Eclipse, and the GlassFish application server is now called OEPE, the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse. The most recent edition of OEPE, which bundles the Luna version of Eclipse, is now available and includes support for both Tomcat 8.0 and JPA 2.1, so we will be moving to the Luna platform this winter.
Coinciding with this change, the new text for the course is by Danny Coward, now a Cloud Architect at Oracle, and is entitled “Java EE 7: The Big Picture“. The text covers the fundamentals of Java EE components and includes chapters on both JDBC and JPA as interfaces to underlying DBMS systems.
With the Luna edition of Eclipse in Oracle OEPE 12.1.3.2, we will also be upgrading some of the other software components used in the course:
- Apache Tomcat 8.0.12
- Java Hibernate 4.3.6
- Apache Maven 3.2.3
- Apache Derby 10.11.1.1
Additional resources
Some additional resources that students (and practitioners) may find useful are:
- Eric Jendrock, Ricardo Cervera-Navarro, Ian Evans, Kim Hasse, and William Markito. The Java EE 7 Tutorial (Fifth Edition, 2014), Volumes 1 and 2. Addison-Wesley, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. ISBN 978-0-321-99492-9 and 978-0-321-98008-3. Also available online at http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/tutorial/doc/home.htm.
- Christian Bauer and Gavin King (2007). Java Persistence with Hibernate (Revised edition). Manning Publications. ISBN 1-932394-88-5.
- Srinivas Guruzu and Gary Mak (2010). Hibernate Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach. Apress Books, Berkeley, California. ISBN 978-1-4302-2796-0.
- Mike Keith and Merrick Schincariol (2006). Pro EJB 3 Java Persistence API. Apress Books, Berkeley, California. ISBN 978-1-59059-645-6.
- Mike Keith and Merrick Schincariol (2009). Pro JPA 2: Mastering the Java Persistence API. Apress Books, Berkeley, California. ISBN 978-1-4302-1956-9.
- Graham Hamilton, Rick Cattell and Maydene Fisher (July 1997). JDBC Database Access with Java: A Tutorial and Annotated Reference. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-201-30995-5.
- Seth White, Maydene Fisher, Rick Cattell, Graham Hamilton and Mark Hapner (December 1999). JDBC API Tutorial and Reference, Second Edition. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-201-143328-1.
- Nicholas S. Williams (2014). Professional Java for Web Applications. Wrox Press, John Wiley and Sons, New York. ISBN 978-1-118-65646-4.
- Antonio Goncalves (2010). Beginning Java EE6 Platform with Glassfish 3: From Novice to Professional. Second Edition. Apress Books, Berkeley, California. ISBN 978-1-4302-2889-9.