Java EE Reference at a Glance

Welcome to the Java EE reference page. The following online sources are available to help you learn and use Java EE technology.

These documents and screencast resources provide guidance to help in your Java EE and GlassFish development.

Screencasts and Webinars

GlassFish Videos (YouTube)
Upcoming GlassFish Webinar Series

Java EE Training and Certification

Get comprehensive Java EE training and certification for enterprise developers and architects.

READ ME and Third Party License README Files

READ ME and Third Party License README Archives

Note On Privacy

Information about the data Oracle collects during the installation and auto-update of the Java Runtime Environment (HTML, PDF)

Books

Java EE 6 Pocket Guide by Arun Gupta (O'Reilly, 2012)
This handy guide provides an overview of Java Enterprise Edition 6’s main technologies and includes extensive, easy-to-understand code samples that demonstrate the platform’s many improvements. You’ll quickly understand how Java EE 6 simplifies the process of developing and deploying web and enterprise applications.

The Java EE 6 Tutorial: Basic Concepts by Eric Jendrock, Ian Evans, Devika Gollapudi, Kim Haase, and Chinmayee Srivathsa (Addison-Wesley, 2010)
This book is a task-oriented, example-driven guide to developing enterprise applications for the Java EE 6 platform. Written by members of the Java EE 6 documentation team at Oracle, it provides new and intermediate enterprise Java programmers with a thorough understanding of the platform, along with instructions for creating and running examples using the latest versions of GlassFish Server and NetBeans IDE.

Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 Application Server by David Heffelfinger (Packt Publishing, 2010)
A practical guide to install and configure the GlassFish 3 Application Server and develop Java EE 6 applications to be deployed to this server

Beginning Java EE 6 Platform with GlassFish 3: From Novice to Professional by Antonio Goncalves (Apress, 2009)
This book details the Java EE 6 specifications and reference implementations and uses GlassFish v3 to deploy and administer the code examples.

Real World Java EE Patterns Rethinking Best Practices by Adam Bien (lulu.com, 2009)
Through real world projects, this book shows how to develop and maintain Java EE 5 and Java EE 6 applications.

Implementing SOA Using Java EE by B.V. Kumar, Prakash Narayan, and Tony Ng (Addison-Wesley Professional, 2010)
This book provides step-by-step guidance on how to architect enterprise solutions and implement them using SOA and Java EE technologies.