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More Java Pitfalls: Sample Pitfalls

Here is the book's introduction and 3 sample pitfalls (one from each part) for you to judge if this book is right for you! Many readers have used the first book (Java Pitfalls) as a launching point for internal mentoring programs! We hope you will gain the same benefits with this book! Enjoy!

• Introduction
• Item 5 - Avoiding Granularity Pitfalls in java.util.logging.
• Item 23 - Cache, It's Money
• Item 50 - When Transactions Go Awry

Table of Contents

• Introduction.
• Acknowledgments.
• PART ONE. THE CLIENT TIER
• Item 1. When Runtime.exec() won't.
• Item 2. NIO Performance and Pitfalls.
• Item 3. I Prefer Not to Use Properties.
• Item 4. When Information Hiding Hides Too Much.
• Item 5. Avoiding Granularity Pitfalls in java.util.logging.
• Item 6. When Implementations of Standard APIs Collide.
• Item 7. My Assertions are Not Gratuitous!
• Item 8. The Wrong Way to Search a DOM.
• Item 9. The Saving a DOM Dilemma.
• Item 10. Mouse Button Portability.
• Item 11. Apache Ant and Lifecycle Management.
• Item 12. JUnit: Unit Testing Made Simple.
• Item 13. The Failure to Execute.
• Item 14. What Do You Collect?
• Item 15. Avoiding Singleton Pitfalls.
• Item 16. When setSize() Won't Work.
• Item 17. When Posting to a URL Won't.
• Item 18. Effective String Tokenizing.
• Item 19. Jlayered Pane Pitfalls.
• Item 20. When File.renameTo() Won't.
• Item 21. Use Iteration over Enumeration.
• Item 22. J2ME Performance and Pitfalls.
• PART TWO. THE WEB TIER.
• Item 23. Cache, It's Money.
• Item 24. JSP Design Errors.
• Item 25. When Serlet HttpSessions Collide.
• Item 26. When Applets Go Bad.
• Item 27. Transactional LDAP - Don't Make the Commitment.
• Item 28. Filtered Java: It's Smooth.
• Item 29. Some Direction about JSP Reuse and Content Delivery.
• Item 30. I'll Take my Java Regular.
• Item 31. Instance Variables In Servlets.
• Item 32. Design Flaws with Creating Database Connections Within Servlets.
• Item 33. Attempting to Use Both Output Mechanisms in Servlets.
• Item 34. The Mysterious File Protocol.
• Item 35. Reading Files from Servlets.
• Item 36. Too Many Submits.
• PART THREE. THE ENTERPRISE TIER.
• Item 37. J2EE Architecture Considerations.
• Item 38. Design Strategies for Eliminating Network Bottleneck Pitfalls.
• Item 39. I'll Take the Local.
• Item 40. Image Obsession.
• Item 41. The Problem with Multiple Concurrent ResultSets.
• Item 42. Generating Primary Keys for EJB.
• Item 43. The Stateful Stateless Session Bean.
• Item 44. The Unprepared PreparedStatement.
• Item 45. Take a Dip in the resource Pool.
• Item 46. JDO and Data Persistence.
• Item 47. Where's the WSDL? Pitfalls of Using JAXR with UDDI.
• Item 48. Performance Pitfalls in JAX-RPC Application Clients.
• Item 49. Get Your Beans Off My Filesysem!
• Item 50. When Transactions Go Awry.
• Index.