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Summary: Best EJB Book
Review: Without question, this is the best EJB Book. The explaination, examples and topics are extremely well written. It has an indepth coverage of all EJB related topics and is a must read for all EJB developers and designers.
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Summary: RELIABLE INFORMATION ON 'ENTERPRISE JAVABEANS'
Review: As the name indicated, this "Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans" provides more than one way of circumventing the hassles, which programmers who are involved in Enterprise JavaBeans know too well.
The book did a good dissection of EJB, (including how to chose the best EJB for a given task or project). The descriptive language used in every chapter is simple and straightforward, making it easy for beginners to understand. Everything about this text evokes good research and accuracy. It is one book that I would recommend for anybody who seeks reliable information on Enterprise JavaBeans.
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Summary: Too Simple
Review: I strongly agree with the other reviewer,Lund. This book is very simple and very easy to understand. Very structured, organised ans well writen. But it lucks in many fields though it is called mastering.No examples with Local Interfaces saying they are the same as Remote which is partialy true. Haefel though a little bit more difficult is far more complete providing also code for different application servers. I would only recomend this book if you think EJB is difficult and you want something simple for the start. But defenetly you would need something else for the future
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Summary: An easy read - maybe too easy?
Review: I found more than one "over simplification" where the book doesn't stick a 100% to the specification, for instance when it comes to throwing the right kinds of exceptions when using BMP.I find "Enterprise JavaBeans (3rd Edition)" by Richard Monson-Haefel to be more precise, more complete and better structured.
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Summary: One of the best EJB book !
Review: The book is as good as its title has described. If you are a beginner and wants to master EJB, this is a book you must read. After reading the first 4 chapters of the free PDF, I have decided to buy it and read it from the beginning again !
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Summary: Best EJB Book
Review: Best EJB Book I've ever read. Very well organized and EJB concepts are clearly explained.
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Summary: Excellent EJB introductory book!
Review: Wow! Within a few chapters you are up and running! Note that EJB deployment is J2EE implementation specific and this book, while clearly written for the BEA WebLogic J2EE implementation, is platform agnostic. Meaning to work with the authors code you need to reference outside sources to make it work. This isn't a bad thing, but worth pointing out. I like the book, I learned a lot and will continue to use it as a reference.
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Summary: Best EJB Book
Review: Easy reading. Very clear and easy to understand. Recommend it for anyone who wants to start EJB. Full of expert advice.
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Summary: Best technical book i've ever read
Review: Simply put this is by far the best technical book i've ever read the author is clearly a master of the subject here he gives you exactely what you need to be an effecient ejb developer but more importantly he makes you want to read other manuals so that you can know as much as he does,there 's nothing better than learning from someone who knows what he is talking about.This is the art of programming in practice i read the whole book three times all ready and still can get enough of if I will never sell this book i 'll keep it forever great great job. Keep up the good job!!!
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Summary: Good introductory book.
Review: I'm a software engineer, experienced with Java, server side programming and perf & scalability issues in general, and with both an academic and an industry background. New to EJB, which is why I read this book. This book is actually 4 stars as an introductory book. It got me to up to speed with EJB, enough to understand it's programming paradigm fairly well. However, where I'm trying to go is to deeply understand perf. and scalability issues that will arise for large deployments (millions of users, for e.g) and exactly what EJBs offer in that area. Although clustering and transactions are discussed, the level of detail I need is greater - techniques for optimal caching are only skimmed, not thoroughly discussed. Additionally, one or more of the authors has this rather irritating habit of using the wrong terminology. Cases in point:
1) "The Halting Problem" of computer science is, rather cheekily exemplified by a program that blocks forever. Check it out for yourself from other sources - that is NOT the halting problem. It isnt that simple.
2) "Store and forward" is again, rather cheekily, described as "spool messages and send them when the queue comes back up". No, that is not what it is. Check it out for yourself from other sources. It is originally a networking term used in a different context. Simply because you are storing and forwarding doesnt mean you unilaterally christen your technique "store-and-forward", without investigating the original and well-known usage of the term.
3) "Reliability" in the term RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) is exemplified by - "if the simplest request takes 10ms to complete with one user, the system is reliable if the same request takes 10ms with 1,000,000 concurrent users.". That is NOT the definition of reliability. Reliability has more to do with fault detection and avoidance, not what is mentioned above, which seems more to do with throughput.
These are only a few of the incorrectly used terms. To most, I am only nitpicking. But for those who really want to go deep and do not want to waste 30-40% of their time reconciling terminologies, this is important. If the authors dispensed with trying to rename and falsely name common terms, their ideas would be communicated quicker, at least to audiences who are used to the well-known meanings of common terms.
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