Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans (2nd Edition)

Rating:
Summary: Good for a newbie but not the best
Review: This is a good book for a newbie with loads of theories though this book stays far behind the enterprise level computing and on implementation of EJB driven applications. There's a huge gap between what this book describes and the real development environment of EJBs.

Never rely on the sample codes and the methodologies have been used in this book for those are not the best development approaches. This book consists of several pitfalls and not suitable to be used as an EJB development guideline (e:g: this doesn't solve the importance of PK classes and creating composite primary keys). Also never assume that this book describes the best EJB development methodologies just by fantasized by the way that the theories on EJB are presented.

If you seek more adventure on EJB this is probably not the best of books for this lacks some depth to the topics included. Apart from that, this book is quite ok for a newbie to get dirt with EJB and to understand the basics with the theories and fundamentals. If you like some fine grained info and you're a newbie, I'd suggest Applied Enterprise JavaBeans by Kevin Boone to brush up with what's missing here

Rating:
Summary: very good book
Review: Who is this book for?
1) Someone who is already familiar with the basics of distributed computing, like RMI or RPC (not strictly necessary but it helps a lot)
2) You can program in Java (J2SE).
3) You want to understand the overall distributed, multitier architecture supported by the J2EE platform. What the role of middleware is within this architecture. What an EJB is and how it fits into the overall picture. And most importantly, how to write the code for an EJB (starting from a simple hello world example).

This book is very good for understanding the big picture behind the J2EE platform. You'll know how it all works and how you can write and deploy server-side software components, aka EJBs. It will give you a solid foundation for understanding the basics so that you will be ready to tackle the more advanced topics. The book is well written. The ideas are clear, and diagrams are used extensively.


Rating:
Summary: good book
Review: My first EJB book,simple to understand, good samples,good coverage.A must read ,especially for beginners.

Rating:
Summary: This is a OK book
Review: I was looking for an EJB 2.0 book. I was planning to buy either this one or Enterprise JavaBeans, 3rd Edition. So, I went to bookstore and read this one. (Explanation is ok, but it didn't cover the very simple and basic things, e.g. for CMP 2.0 about primary key stuff...this book has just assumed you've known what is cmp primary key before you read this book... If I don't remember it wrong, it didn't even mention about the primary key has to be either Object or String... So, I guess if you are not familiar with EJB 1.1, (like myself) you are gonna get confused... or may be just me.
But I did find the appendix was useful. So, I rate it "OK" with three stars... I guess I'm just a tough rate-er, I've never rated a book with 5 stars. I'm going to buy the O'Reilly one, cuz I didn't find it in bookstore. I hope it will be a good book...)