Tutorial For Building j2Ee Applications Using Jboss And Eclipse

This tutorial is about building Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) components using Eclipse as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and JBOSS as the Application Server. Tutorial covers step-by-step development of J2EE components, starting from setting up Eclipse, JBOSS and Lomboz. Lomboz uses Xdoclet (Attribute Oriented Programming) for rapid development of J2EE components. Importantly, all of the tools used in this tutorial can be downloaded free of charge, so there should be nothing stopping you!

Eclipse provides an excellent IDE, with features like refactoring and debugging. JBOSS is integrated within Eclipse using JBOSS plug-in. Lomboz is another plug-in used for building J2EE components, which provides wizards for bean creation, method creation, deployment of bean, test client creation etc. JBOSS is an integrated application server with convenient built-in components such as the Hypersonic Database and Jetty as the Web Engine. This bundling of all the key components of a J2EE environment assists beginners in learning how to develop J2EE applications. Having gained some skills and confidence, beginners can move on to tools provided by other vendors.

One of the problems J2EE developers face is that of synchronizing their code with J2EE’s deployment descriptors. As development of components progresses, developers have to keep updating deployment descriptors, a generally tedious activity which can lead to other mistakes, instead of this devoting time to the business logic of the application. Xdoclet generates these interfaces and helper classes along with deployment descriptors, by parsing source files. These files are generated from templates that use the information provided in the source code and its JavaDoc tags. XDoclet allows developers to concentrate on only one Java source file per component, that is, concentrate on the business logic of the application, and the rest is done by Xdoclet.

For so many years developers have been looking for some sort of a tool which speeds up this process of development and deployment, and Xdoclet is certainly a step in that direction. Hopefully you’ll find that Xdoclet makes development and deployment rapid and easy. So explore the power of Xdoclet, Eclipse and JBOSS!

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