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Summary: A no-nonsense book
Review: Have you worked with CORBA or COM? Do you unbderstand the basic issues on distributed computing? Looking for a no nonsense introduction to EJB?Take this book. A trial version of any EJB Server and few pages of information on how to install, configure and deploy EJB on THAT server would have really helped.
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Summary: Love this book
Review: Its concise, it is just like other good Orielly books. This is a an excellent book
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Summary: Terrific Introductory text
Review: I definitely recommend this as a must-have EJB book especially for those who are just getting their feet wet with EJB. An invaluable book to get a quick and solid grasp of EJB concepts and terminology.
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Summary: Real EJB Developers Want and Use This Book
Review: I've read the book cover to cover and found it an excellent description of both the "hows" and more importantly the "whys" of EJB. It helped move me from the buzz-word/magazine article knowledge level to a thorough understanding of the technology -- including its current shortcomings. I am working on an EJB project and and affiliated with several others. There are five or six copies of the book floating around and we need more because we (the architects and developers, not the managers) keep borrowing them back and forth.
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Summary: "The" book for Enterprise Java Beans
Review: I am currently working on a large Internet application project using Application server with EJB and was looking for "the" EJB book. And I found O'Reilly's Enterprise JavaBeans by Richard Monson. The book is already being well talked amongst EJB developers and a leading resource to EJB community. As a feather to the cap, this book is recommended in our corporate training session on application server being provided by Netscape. The key plus point of the book is that it covers both development concepts as well as behind the scene issues which provides clear understanding of EJB and its development. Chapter 1 talks about various concepts of CTM and Server side component model and gives good insight about distributed object architecture. Chapter 2 explains the EJB architecture from the developer's point of view. But the author has also explained the role of EJB container. Chapter 3 gives an excellent overview of various primary services and also resource management issues. This includes the concepts of transaction, persistence, Naming, Security, Instance pooling etc. Chapter 4 and 5 takes through the steps required to develop server side as well as client side codes. Moreover the cruise line illustration is quite simple and easy to understand. Chapter 6 and 7 explains the life cycle of Entity and session beans clearly explaining the concepts of bean-managed and container-managed persistence and stateful and stateless session beans. The key concepts are well represented through suitable diagrams. Chapter 8 gives detailed insight to various issues related to transaction management including Declarative transaction, Isolation, Explicit transaction management etc. Especially, all the transaction attributes are represented through flow charts for easy and thorough understanding. Last and most important chapter discusses design strategies, which is the crux of any EJB based application development. It explains the issues to be considered during the design of the componentization model including Passing objects by values, Object to relational mapping tools, Implementing a common interface etc. A 'must' to all EJB developers.
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Summary: Excellant explanation of fundamentals
Review: This book does a great job in explaining the following tricky to understand concepts using clear, lucid visual diagrams (chapters 6,7,8): 1. Explanation of life cycles of entity, stateless and stateful session beans using state diagrams. 2. Explanations of what to do and what not to do in call back functions such as ejbActivate()/ejbPassivate() etc for all types of beans. 3. Explain the order of functions calls using sequence diagrams. 4. Explanation of transaction control using transaction attributes (excellant diagrams) and explicit transaction management 5. Explain transaction isolation and database locking lucidly. Good intro book to recommend to team members to comeup to speed.
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Summary: A very good guide on EJB technology.
Review: This book gives an excellent introduction to EJB. The explanation is lucid and the examples are very good. It makes a valient attempt to steer clear of vendor specific extensions, but does explain that there does exist such a thing. On the whole a well laid out material on EJB.
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Summary: Everyone should have it
Review: If you don't know how to program enterprise java program,but wold like to act like you do or imtimidate your subordinates with buzz worlds and flesh phrases, this is the book for you! I am a project leader who micromanages my group. I use what I've read from this book to fool people everyday, especially those in the upper management It really works! buy it!
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Summary: Great book for getting started on EJBs
Review: I was totally confused about EJBs before I read the book. Thank god I found it and it gave a good head start on all the server side java concepts like java RMI and EJB
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Summary: Great book for EJB
Review: I've already bought & read 3 books on EJB and this is the one I recommend. I like the way the author goes farther than enumerating the APIs or the mechanisms to use EJBs and gives very sound explanations of the fundamental ideas. Check chapter 9 for an example of this.
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