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Summary: For Begginers Only!
Review: Not what i had expected.Its NOT ATall for serious developers (what a joke).Books by Ed Roman and Richard Haefel are much better even for begginers.I am going to return mine today.
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Summary: EJB cannot be much more easier to learn
Review: One of the best books for the SCBCD certification. The books assumes you know nothing about ejb. Again well written by Kathy and bates.
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Summary: Good Book to learn the basics
Review: Overall a very good book in the context of Fundamentals and objectives of the exam SCBCD. I am giving it 4 stars because I felt that an "Exam Quick Prep" at the end would have helped in the last minute studying for the exam. I also think that giving a flavour of design patterns would have been beneficial..Having said that, for the advanced readers in my opinion Richard's "Enterprise Java Beans" is more applicable and interesting. IMHO EJB Learning curve
1.)Kathy's Book "Head First EJB"
2.)Enterprise Java Bean OR Mastering Enterprise Java Beans
3.)J2EE Design and Development by Rod Johnson
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Summary: Good starting point and exam study guide
Review: Pros:
- easy to read (although it has 700 pages)
- good intro for beginners.
- good review guide for exam takers. Cons:
- not too many examples If you are new to EJB, read this book, play with some examples from Sun's tutorials and go through the book again before you take the exam, it will make a lot more sense the second time around and it will help you score high.
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Summary: Did you know EJBs are funny?
Review: Sierra and Bates are making quite a splash with these books. They wrote an earlier book (Head First Java) where they used a very informal cartoon-heavy teaching method. Now they have produced this book on Enterprise Java Beans. I have been reading about EJBs since they first came out, but I never knew there was anything funny about them. Just ignorant, I guess! Certainly their graphic narratives help illuminate what some might consider a bone-dry subject. But their lengthy explanations with diagrams may be more instructive for you than the standard EJB texts. The thing is, EJB usage is inherently more abstract than just learning java, where, for example, GUI coding gives you immediate visual feedback. With EJBs, and transactions and hooking up to a database [etc], there are usually no visuals (apart from the command line). So a diagrammatic pedagogy is correspondingly more valuable for understanding, because these diagrams may well be your ONLY visuals. Maybe you are new to EJBs and have a standard text. But for you, its explanations are too cursory? And it did not have any exercises? If so, try temporarily scaling back and using this book. It may put you on a firmer conceptual footing, and then you can return to a more "mainstream" book.
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Summary: Dare to admit that learning is fun
Review: Sierra and Bates has got the courage to stand up for the fact that we *do* learn better if we think it is fun. What I like in particular is their approach to focus on the central concepts and using a lot of humor to get the most important understanding across to the reader/learner. I have made (unpaid) reviews of two chapters of this book before publishing, so the approach is no big surprise to me. However, I am happy to see that the rest of the book keep the same high standard. I give it my best recommendations. This is the book for people who dare to admit to themselves that learning is fun.
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Summary: Thanks For The Spread Awareness
Review: So many books (too many books) forget that people who are studying using a book look at one spread (two pages) at a time. After reading through HFE (twice!), then going back to some of my other books, I've become spoiled! Some books take the linear approach (write the whole dang book and let some mindless word processor paginate it). I guess one might guess that I don't appreciate that approach very much. It's obvious that with HFE, there was a lot of careful thought about what made-up the page / spread. I image discussions about maybe we have some extra room here, we could talk about this or that related thing. Or blast! We're running out of room here. I'd like to talk about this or that, but we need to be really tight here. Or, this is important enough to justify another page or two. Let me say that this makes the book much more pleasing and effective as a study guide than one with that linear approach.
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Summary: One of the worst computer books ever
Review: Some people may like this strange format of the book, but I really hated it. It's confusing, and not clear. It tries to be funny, but no, it's not. Too many unnecessary pictures/photos. You won't be able to use this book as a reference either. Waste of money. I only bought this book because it was the only EJB cert. book available at that time.
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Summary: "HF EJB" Rocks!
Review: Thanks to Kathy & Bert. I passed the exam SCBCD with 94%. Really this "HF EJB" Rocks!
I completed reading this book in 10 days and revised it in 1 day
by just seeing pictures,Imp the Big letters,TV box comments,Bean cartoons,especially bullet points,UML diagrams,... Really this book helps for SCBCD exam..
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Summary: An Optical Cacophony
Review: The book helped me in passing the exam. However it was quite hard to learn from a book with such a confusing layout. During the first reading it is quite entertaining. But beware, if you have to lookup some forgotten facts. The index is poor and you have to skim through crazy cartoons and handwritten poorly organized notes. Frequently I gave up searching for some facts. So the 'head first' approach is definitely not for me. After passing the exam I gave tho book to someone else, because I didn't want to store such an optical cacophony on my bookshelf.
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