Mastering Middleware

Mastering Middleware teaches middleware administrators everything they need to know to implement and configure tasks smoothly and efficiently on and among the most popular Java-based proprietary and open-source application servers: TomEE, Jetty, JBoss, GlassFish, WebServer, and WebLogic. With the maturation of Java-based middleware solutions, companies are no longer nailed down to a specific vendor or application server provider. As long as the application components stick to Java EE specifications, they can be ported and deployed across different application servers with minimal code-level changes.
In step-by-step terms for day-to-day practice, veteran middleware administrator Tanuj Khare explains how to select, mix, and match the specific application server platforms that are best suited for your particular enterprise IT infrastructure. He shows you how to evaluate and coordinate the distinctive advantages offered by a wide variety of Java-compatible products in order to optimize linkages among the disparate assets scattered along your enterprise network.
Khare's wealth of practical advice on deploying, tuning, and troubleshooting multi-tier distributed middleware is grounded on the enterprise touchstones of portability, security, scalability, load-balancing, reusability and extensively illustrated with examples and exercises. From the vantage of a middleware administrator, the author weighs the relative merits and risks of datacenter-versus cloud-based environments with respect to capacity planning, autoscaling, and security. Khare describes the system configurations and operational best practices for deploying middleware components in disaster recovery, and he presents the technologies and techniques for replicating and synchronizing production and standby sites across the middleware environment.