# Real World Java EE 6 Patterns--Rethinking Best Practices Reloaded A completely rewritten, second, iteration of the Real World Java EE Patterns--Rethinking Best Practices book is available. Although I tried to prune as much content as possible, the book has now 431 pages--171 pages more than the first iteration. The reason for the extensive size growth is the discussion of several new Java EE 6 patterns and utilities like: Plugins, HTTP Events, Re-Injector, Custom Scope, Parallelizer (…). The "Rethinking" book also comes with a transactional JCA 1.6 connector implementation--a simplistic key-value store. Most of the patterns are a "clean room" extraction from things that worked well in my daily consulting work. Some patterns are directly extracted from my open source projects like: http://lightfish.adam-bien.com or http://x-ray.adam-bien.com. A Table of Contents says more than thousand words :) A Brief History of Java EE Understanding Java EE Core Concepts Rethinking the Business Tier Boundary (Application Service) Control (Service/Session Façade) Entity (Business Object) Gateway Fluid Logic Paginator and Fast Lane Reader Configurator Re-Injector Async Worker (Service Activator) Parallelizer HTTP Events Transparent Cache Integrator Aspect Transaction Progress Listener Scheduler Binary REST Serializer Plugin Retired Patterns Rethinking the Integration Tier Data Access Object Transfer Object and Data Transfer Object EJB 2 Integration and Migration Legacy POJO Integrator Generic (File) JCA Infrastructural Patterns and Utilities Service Starter Singleton Bean Locator Thread Tracker Payload Extractor Resource Binder Context Holder Custom Scope Telemetry Provider Logger Injector Self-Invoking Beans Late Starter Pragmatic Java EE Architectures The sample projects are already checked-in into: http://kenai.com/projects/javaee-patterns Feedback is, as always, highly appreciated. But: I spent several days in word processor formatting the final version of the book, so all negative comments about formatting are going to be marked as spam :-). See you at airhacks.com!