The surprisingly successful book Real World Java EE Patterns-Rethinking Best Practices [press.adam-bien.com] discusses the rethinking of legacy J2EE patterns. Now, Real World Java EE Night Hacks walks you through the Java EE 6 best practices and patterns used to create a real world application called "x-ray." X-ray is a high-performance blog statistics application built with nothing but vanilla Java EE 6 leveraging the synergies between the JAX-RS, EJB 3.1, JPA 2, and CDI 1.0 APIs. Foreword by James Gosling, Father of Java