This IBM Redbooks publication has examples of programming the new J2EE APIs using VisualAge for Java and deployment on WebSphere Advanced.

Part 1 introduces J2EE and the PiggyBank application scenario, which is an integrated application used to illustrate various principles and techniques for enterprise software development.

In Part 2, learn the depth of EJB container of the J2EE specification, which includes transactional EJBs, transactions, messaging with JMS, WebSphere and MQSeries.

In Part 3, learn the latest servlet and JSP specification with Web application concepts.

Part 1. Introduction

Chapter 1. Our development conditions

Chapter 2. J2EE overview

Chapter 3. Products used within this book

Chapter 4. Introducing PiggyBank

Part 2. The EJB container

Chapter 5. Working with Enterprise JavaBeans

Chapter 6. Transactions and EJBs

Chapter 7. Messaging with JMS, WebSphere and MQSeries

Part 3. The Web container

Chapter 8. Servlets

Chapter 9. JavaServer Pages

Chapter 10. JSPs extended: custom tags

Part 4. Additional discussions

Chapter 11. Application clients and J2EE communications

Chapter 12. Deploying J2EE applications to WebSphere

Appendix A. Additional material