Authors Spielman and Kunnumpurath have spent hours coding the new features of J2EE 1.4so that you can catapult the examples into your own development projects without spinning extra cycles. This book will shape your understanding of intricate, complex J2EE 1.4 development. It is packed with real-world experience, best practices, and plenty of code, so you can move forward with your project, using the latest and greatest J2EE 1.4 functionality. Pro J2EE 1.4 runs the gamut, from building industrial-strength Web applications with advanced Servlets 2.4, to using custom actions in JSP 2.0. The authors also provide details on all aspects of EJBs, like session, entity, message beans, and container services. Once youve built a J2EE application using this book, youll look at managing applications, components and resources, as well as J2EE deployment issues. Eventually, this book will become your well-worn reference guide, kept open continually upon your desk.