Foreword
by John Crupi
What do you do when a new technology arrives? You learn the technology. This is exactly what I did. I studied J2EE (being from Sun Microsystems, it seemed to be the logical choice). Specifically, I focused on the EJB technology by reading the specifications (since there were no books yet). Learning the technology, however, is just the first step—the real goal is to learn how to effectively apply the technology. The nice thing about platform technologies is that they constrain you to performing certain tasks. But, as far as the technology is concerned, you can do whatever you want and quite often get into trouble if you don’t do things appropriately.
One thing I’ve seen in the past 15 years is that there seem to be two areas ...
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