Service-oriented architecture (SOA) emerged in the early part of this century as an evolution of distributed computing. Before SOA, services were understood as the end result of the application ...

The packaging mechanisms defined in Chapter 8 of the J2EE 1.3 specification provide a framework for pulling together all the pieces of a J2EE application. However, application server vendors are free ...

Linux, Java and MiniSQL result in an interesting combination for learning how to build three-tier architecture systems. Nevertheless, more convenient implementations than the one presented here may be ...