Following her widely acclaimedAutobiography of Red("A spellbinding achievement" --Susan Sontag), a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carson's signature mixture of opposites--the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse. InMen in the Off Hours, Carson reinvents figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon. She views the writings of Sappho, St. Augustine, and Catullus through a modern lens. She sets up startling juxtapositions (Lazarus among video paraphernalia; Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussing war). And in a final prose poem, she meditates on the recent death of her mother. With its quiet, acute spirituality, its fearless wit and sensuality, and its joyful understanding that "the fact of the matter for humans is imperfection,"Men in the Off Hoursshows us "the most exciting poet writing in English today" (Michael Ondaatje) at her best. From the Hardcover edition.

"Created by the Enterprise Team of the Java Software group at Sun Microsystems, Designing Enterprise Applications with the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition describes the application configurations supported by the J2EE platform and presents practical guidelines for determining the best design for particular needs. It explores web-based clients based on Java servlets and JavaServer Pages, middle-tier solutions using Enterprise JavaBeans technology, and backend connections based on JDBC technology. It also presents security, deployment, transaction management, and other key issues for today's applications."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

This book simplifies the creation of well-designed enterprise applications using the upgraded Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0 specification. Experienced Java platform mentors Gail Anderson and Paul Anderson use detailed code examples to introduce every key skill involved in creating components, stand-alone Java platform clients, and JavaServer pages. They introduce powerful EJB platform design patterns and show how to apply them in real-world projects while avoiding critical errors in application design. Each chapter includes a "Design Guidelines and Patterns" section designed to help readers assess tradeoffs associated with design decisions, and key point summaries that tie together important concepts. In short, Anderson and Anderson give readers everything they need to build EJB 2.0 platform applications with maximum robustness, scalability, and performance.

A proven Java(TM)-based approach to standardizing and streamlining legacy migration This book focuses on the key challenges developers face when using the Java 2 platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) to encapsulate legacy applications for delivery in a multi-tier Internet environment. Leading Sun architects Torbjoern Dahlen and Thorbioern Fritzon show how to standardize encapsulation using an integration tier that shields the J2EE elements of an application from the properties and demands of its legacy elements. Using this approach, enterprises can promote reuse, accelerate legacy migration projects, and make the most of their COBOL/mainframe and Java expertise. Above all, they can take portability beyond hardware and operating systems, systematically migrating virtually any legacy system without extensive redesign or reprogramming.Presents a pragmatic approach to domain modeling for legacy application migrationPromotes reuse and portability through a standardized, fine-grained domain object modelShows how to streamline the transformation of domain models to working systemsIntroduces a proven, pattern-based J2EE application architecture for Internet-enabling legacy systemsIncludes superior algorithms for object queries, data cleansing and merging, and artificial XA support Advanced J2EE Platform Development presents detailed examples and sample code, including a start-to-finish case study that demonstrates integration between three different legacy systems.

The Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE TM) offers great promise for dramatically improving the way that enterprise applications are built, and organizations that have adopted the J2EE are gaining a competitive advantage. The industry-standard Unified Modeling Language (UML) has helped countless organizations achieve software success through visual modeling. Together, the UML and J2EE form a powerful set of tools, but the intricacies involved with using them in tandem are considerable. While UML is highly effective for specifying, designing, constructing, visualizing, and documenting software systems, J2EE offers enterprise developers a simplified, component-based approach to application development. However, when using the two technologies together, developers must first consider--and attempt to reconcile--the different characteristics of each. Developing Enterprise Java Applications with J2EE TM and UML examines the best ways to jointly leverage these technologies. Exploring concrete methods for completing a successful development project, the authors cover the use of UML and J2EE in detail. Using practical examples and a case study, they illustrate the pros and cons of specific design approaches, show how personal experience can affect design decisions, and demonstrate proven approaches for building better, software faster. With this book as a guide, developers will be able to overcome the challenges in using UML and J2EE together, and be on their way to building robust, scalable, and complex applications. 0201738295B09042001