Afterword

This book has presented an overview of application design and development with the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition. Its goal has been to introduce enterprise developers to the concepts and technology used in designing applications for the J2EE platform, and to give practical examples of a typical enterprise application.

While this book has explored many of the decisions that must be made in the process of designing and developing applications, it is necessarily limited in scope. We've made an effort to be concise in order to focus on high-level design considerations rather than on extensive implementation details.

While the Java BluePrints program tries to maintain this overall focus, it does provide additional resources for analyzing application design and developing effective approaches to specific problems. The goal of the program is to offer an ongoing support mechanism for developers engaged in applying Java technologies to real-world problems and to evolve a variety of best practices to apply to designing Java applications.

The Java BluePrints program includes a regularly updated Web site, articles published by developer-focused magazines and third-party Web sites, and future books in the Addison-Wesley Java Series, Enterprise Edition.

Your comments on this book, your requests for coverage of additional topics, your participation in our online surveys, and your attendance at our sessions at events such as the JavaOne^SM Developer Conference are all important to the success of the Java BluePrints program. Please contact us any time with your feedback:

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The Java BluePrints Team