I thought that members of this list might be interested to know that a new
version of the book Professional Java Server Programming will be hitting
the shelves this month.

Subtitled the J2EE edition, the book has been nearly completely rewritten
to reflect the changes in server-side Java development since the book
first came out about a year ago - with particular emphasis on J2EE
obviously.

To give you an idea of how the content has changed here is a summary of
the contents:

Summary of Contents:
Chapter 1 - Java and the J2EE Platform
Chapter 2 - Distributed Computing Using RMI
Chapter 3 - Database Programming with JDBC
Chapter 4 - JNDI and LDAP
Chapter 5 - XML Beginnings
Chapter 6 - XML Parsing with DOM and SAX
Chapter 7 - Introduction to Web Containers
Chapter 8 - Servlet Programming
Chapter 9 - Servlet Sessions, Context and Collaboration
Chapter 10 - Web Deployment, Authentication and Packaging
Chapter 11 - JSP Basics and Architecture
Chapter 12 - JSP Tag Extensions
Chapter 13 - Advanced Custom JSP Tags
Chapter 14 - Writing Maintainable JSP Pages
Chapter 15 - JSP and XML - Working Together
Chapter 16 - An XML-Based JDBC Connector Servlet Framework
Chapter 17 - JavaMail
Chapter 18 - EJB Architecture and Design
Chapter 19 - Session Beans and Business Logic
Chapter 20 - Entity Beans and Persistence
Chapter 21 - EJB Container Services
Chapter 22 - Development and Deployment Roles
Chapter 23 - Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0
Chapter 24 - Design Considerations for J2EE Applications
Chapter 25 - Performance and Scalability
Chapter 26 - Debugging Java Server Applications
Chapter 27 - Unit Testing J2EE Applications
Chapter 28 - The Java Message Service
Chapter 29 - Integration with CORBA
Chapter 30 - Putting it All Together  - J2EE Applications