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Summary: The Gold Standard of EJB!
Review: If you can only afford one book buy this one! This is the best encapsulation of real-world experience available. I rate 'Enterprise Javabeans' by Richard Monson-Haefel a tad ahead for actually learning EJB because of the downloadable worksheets available for Weblogic 6.1, but this is the book I use regularly.While you are at it have a look at Marinescu's EJB Patterns book, which began as a chapter in this one but grew large enough to become a book in it's own right..
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Summary: Best EJB book ever
Review: Very well organized book with good examples and valuable tips. Every EJB developer should read this book.
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Summary: A book that is good for both understanding and practicing
Review: This is the one of the best EJB books that I have read. The nice thing about this book is that it did a very good job by illustrating EJB concepts using examples. Further more, all the code examples in the book are ready to run. The best way to understand is to practice it. This book lets the readers to understand concepts by practicing various examples. However, since the accompanying source code was written for BEA WebLogic Server, It could be better if the book gives a more detailed process for deployment J2EE application on WebLogic Server.
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Summary: Best EJB book in my library...
Review: Lets face it, no book has everything. But this book does have a crisp explanation of the most important parts of EJB. I have also recently purchased Professional EJB from Wrox publishing which is also quite good, but if I had to choose between the two I would take this one. This is the book that I tend to reference the most, and it was quite clear and concise in explaining several aspects of EJB to me for the first time. Overall a definite 5 star winner!
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Summary: A must have for the personal library
Review: This is a great book for learning EJB technology and then applying some of the principles. Used in tandem with Enterprise JavaBeans by Richard Monson-Haefel, you get a complete look at EJB use and best practices. IMHO, the best parts of the book are the last chapters talking about persistence strategies and performance tuning. The deployment descriptor reference is big bonus as well. Pick this book up if you want to learn EJB and the landscape in which it plays.
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Summary: Ed Roman did it again...
Review: Keep this book close to you. Ed Roman is not only giving you advices when you need them, but he is one of the finest teachers you can have.
In fact I started a study-group just for this book. ...
Thank you Ed for the great work.
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Summary: Demystifying EJBs
Review: There is a lot of hype these days about J2EE and EJBs, there is also a lot of FUD. I'd been in the fear camp for a while. I'd used EJBs before, but didn't quite understand what was going on. I'd heard differing descriptions of architecture and horror stories about performance. This book takes the mystery out of EJBs, it clearly lays out the EJB architecture from top to bottom. Clearly describes how declarative middleware (transaction, security, etc) is used in an EJB environment as well as how you can hand code these services if you wish. Clearly explains the changes and enhancements found in EJB 2.0 as well as how to most effectivly utilize them to increase performance. I highly recommend this book for newbies just starting out with EJBs and for senior developers who for some reason or another are turned off by EJBs.
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Summary: Best Written Programming Book I've had the Pleasure to Read
Review: This is a terrific book if you are trying to understand J2EE/EJB concepts and have some Java background. The examples are clear, there are lots of useful sidebars, there are plenty of illustrations to show how the concepts fit together and even the layout is superb. The parts I like best are the appendices, which are brief tutorials on narrow topics. If you are reading a chapter and come across a topic that you don't know very well, you can stop, read an appendix, and then get right back to learning the material. All programming books should be written like this. I spend hundreds of $$ every year on programming books and this is the first one I've actually ENJOYED reading. Very, very well done.
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Summary: One of the best in the market
Review: This book will set your foot in firm EJB ground, well written well done, although if you are new to EJB you may have little difficulty to digest the concepts at once, reread it to get the best out of it, I wish it comes with CD containing the codes
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Summary: The Bible of EJB 2.0
Review: I red many other books but I realized that the coverage of this book is more deeper than the others. I am still working in HP SSO department and I am a Technical Consultant there and I will suggest this book to everyone who will learn J2EE technology. The book starts with an uderstandable example. And it is not dependent to any comercial Middleware.
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