1.4 How This Book Is Organized

The remainder of this book is divided into the following chapters:

• Chapter 2, "J2EE Platform Technologies," provides an overview of the component, service, and communication technologies supported by the J2EE platform.
• Chapter 3, "The Client Tier," presents implementation options for J2EE clients and provides guidelines for choosing among these options.
• Chapter 4, "The Web Tier," describes technologies available for supporting development in the Web tier. It includes guidelines and techniques for using J2EE Web components and describes several Web application architectures.
• Chapter 5, "The Enterprise JavaBeans Tier," describes the capabilities of the EJB tier of the J2EE platform and discusses design choices for implementing business logic.
• Chapter 6, "Integrating with the Enterprise Information System Tier," describes recommended approaches for accessing enterprise information systems and how J2EE components must be configured to access them.
• Chapter 7, "Packaging and Deployment," describes the capabilities provided by the J2EE platform for packaging and deploying J2EE applications, and provides heuristics and practical tips on how to use these capabilities.
• Chapter 8, "Transaction Management," describes the transaction services provided by the J2EE platform and provides recommendations on how best to use those services.
• Chapter 9, "Security," describes the mapping of the J2EE security model to enterprise computing environments and infrastructures.
• Chapter 10, "J2EE Internationalization and Localization," new in this edition, explains how to expand an application's reach across the globe by customizing its interfaces and logic for multiple languages, countries, and cultures.
• Chapter 11, "Architecture of the Sample Application," pulls all of the topics in the preceding chapters into a coherent programming model for interactive applications in the J2EE platform, and provides specific architectural guidelines.
• "Glossary," is a list of words and phrases found in this book and their definitions.

Additional information is available on the Java BluePrints Web site, listed in Section 1.6 on page 23. The Web site includes additional content, available only online, that describes in detail the architecture of the Java Pet Store sample application.