IBM WebSphere Application Server: the complete reference

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by  Ben-Natan, Ron, Sasson, Ori

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IBM WebSphere Application Server - The Complete Reference
Ron Ben-Natan
Ori Sasson
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Dedicated to Yael and Rinat.
-Ori & Ron

Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the IBM review team who devoted their time and attention to
raising the quality of the book. Their thoroughness, knowledge, and experience have
had a tremendous impact on the contents of this book. Thank you to:
§ Jim Stetor, Manager WebSphere Execution Team
§ David R. Draeger, WebSphere Software Engineer and member of the
WebSphere Execution Team
§ Thomas R. Gissel, WebSphere Software Engineer and Senior member of the
WebSphere Execution Team
§ Andrew McCright, WebSphere Software Engineer and member of the
WebSphere Execution Team
§ Keith McGuinnes, WebSphere Software Engineer, and member of the
WebSphere Execution Team
We would also like to thank John E. Botsford, IBM Retail Publishing, who helped with
the IBM software included on the CD.
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§ Lisa Bandini, Production Manager
§ David Zielonka, Managing Editor
§ Wendy Rinaldi, Editorial Director
§ Nancy Maragioglio, Senior Acquisitions Editor
§ Madhu Prasher, Project Editor
§ Jenn Tust, Project Editor
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§ Lisa Theobald, Copy Editor
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§ Cheryl Abel, Proofreader
§ Deidre Dolce, Proofreader
§ Lyssa Wald, Illustration Supervisor
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§ Melinda Moore Lytle, DTP Composition Specialist
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§ John Patrus, DTP Composition Specialist
§ Valerie Robbins, Indexer
We'd also like to thank Jan Benes and his team at Apollo Publishing Services, the lead
compositors.
This is the seventh book we have authored; we have never worked with such a great
team as this one-thank you!
-Ori & Ron

About the Authors
Ron Ben-Natan is Chief Technology Officer at ViryaNet Inc.-a software provider of
wireless workforce management and field service solutions. Prior to that he worked for
companies including Intel, Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, and AT&T Bell Laboratories. He
has a Ph.D. in computer science in the field of distributed computing and has been
architecting and developing distributed applications for over 15 years. His hobby is
writing about how technology is used to solve real problems, and he has authored
books titled CORBA, Objects on the Web, CORBA on the Web, IBM SanFrancisco
Developer's Guide, IBM WebSphere Starter Kit, and Integrating Service Level
Agreements as well as numerous articles and tutorials. He can be reached at
[email protected].
Ori Sasson is an independent software consultant involved in several global projects
deployed in Switzerland, Singapore, and Israel. He has a B.S. and M.S. in computer
science and mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is currently
pursuing a Ph.D. in theoretical computer science. He has co-authored several books,
including IBM WebSphere Starter Kit and IBM SanFrancisco Developer's Guide, both
published by McGraw-Hill.
Table of Contents
IBM WebSphere Application Server - The Complete Reference
Part I - Getting Started
Chapter 1 - What Is WebSphere?
Chapter 2 - Installing and Starting WebSphere
Chapter 3 - Hello World (Wide Web)
Chapter 4 - Hello Servlets and JSPs
Chapter 5 - Hello EJBs
Part II - WebSphere Technologies
Chapter 6 - Web Servers and Java Application Servers
Chapter 7 - Servlets and JavaServer Pages
Chapter 8 - Common Object Request Broker Architecture
Chapter 9 - Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
Chapter 10 - JavaBeans
Chapter 11 - Enterprise JavaBeans
Chapter 12 - Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Chapter 13 - Java Security
Chapter 14 - Java Messaging Service
Chapter 15 - Java 2 Enterprise Edition
Part III - Development Environments for WebSphere Applications
Chapter 16 - WebSphere Studio Application Developer
Chapter 17 - VisualAge for Java
Part IV - Core Services
Chapter 18 - Connection Pooling and Data Access Beans
Chapter 19 - WebSphere Security Services
Chapter 20 - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Support
Chapter 21 - WebSphere Application Logging
Part V - Developing Servlets and JavaServer Pages
Chapter 22 - HTTP Servlets
Chapter 23 - Servlet Sessions
Chapter 24 - WebSphere-Specific Servlet Issues
Chapter 25 - JSP Elements
Chapter 26 - JSP Examples
Chapter 27 - Custom Tag Libraries
Chapter 28 - Debugging Servlets and JSPs Using VisualAge
Part VI - Developing EJB
Chapter 29 - Session Beans
Chapter 30 - Entity Beans
Chapter 31 - EJB Transactions and Security
Chapter 32 - Message-Driven Beans
Chapter 33 - IBM EJB Extensions
Chapter 34 - Using EJB in a Multitiered Application
Part VII - Using XML
Chapter 35 - Writing XML E-Business Applications
Chapter 36 - Application of XSL Transformations
Chapter 37 - Web Services: SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI
Chapter 38 - Deploying Web Services on WebSphere
Part VIII - Internationalization and Localization
Chapter 39 - Java Support Features for Internationalization
Chapter 40 - Building Multilingual Applications
Part IX - Administering WebSphere Sites
Chapter 41 - Deploying WebSphere for Scalability and Fault Tolerance
Chapter 42 - The WebSphere Administrative Console
Chapter 43 - WebSphere Administration Scripts
Chapter 44 - Administering WebSphere Security
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Listings
Part I: Getting Started
Chapter List

Chapter 1: What Is WebSphere?

Chapter 2: Installing and Starting WebSphere

Chapter 3: Hello World (Wide Web)

Chapter 4: Hello Servlets and JSPs

Chapter 5: Hello EJBs
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