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Summary: Excellent analysis of EJB
Review: I've reviewed three EJB books, and this one is my favorite. Richard's writing is concise and very readable. He presents very complex concepts in a very digestable fashion. The example application used throught the book provides excellent insight into the best practices for design and development of EJB-based applications.
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Summary: A "must have" for the serious Java professional
Review: As a pre-publication reviewer, I can assure you that Richard does an excellent job of covering the mechanics of EJB. In addition he gives good advice on advanced topics such as design patterns and implementation strategies.Although best practices for EJB are still evolving, Richard's contribution will certainly advance the art of EJB development. This is a "must have" for the serious Java professional.
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Summary: People are whispering about it.
Review: very clear explanation, deep enough for developers.Should buy quickly otherwise out of stock.
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Summary: Very Good
Review: This is a great book, I finally finished it and I think it gives a good undestanding of EJB
Rating:
Summary: An excellent book on Enterprise Java beans
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overall value of the book:
5=Well done! This book will be a valuable teaching and reference tool.
Instructional value of the book:
4=I would recommend this book to someone interested in its topic.
Reference value of this book:
4=This book has earned a valued place on my reference shelf.
This book provides a good insight into enterprise java beans. although, this book is NOT intended to
be for beginners of Java, fundamental concepts of each aspect of EJB are explained. the book assumes
a prior knowledge of java and assumes experience developing business applications. after an initial
explanation of the conxepts, the book dives deep into the nuts and bolts of EJB.
the author has taken the time to explain the concepts with sample code, schematic code, and screen
prints to explain the contents of the chapter. the concepts of states and session in the context of
an EJB are well explained in this book. the book further explains the container-managed persistence
(CMP) and the relationships among those objects. a sample reservation system is used to explain how
to use beans for an RDBMS encountered in the business world.
the book also contains a workbook for JBoss and appropriate exercises for the contents of different
chapters applicable to JBOSS.
this is a well written book and it has found a place in my reference shelf.
Ravi Mahalingam
Java Users Group, Columbia, SC.
Rating: 
Summary: Needs improvement
Review: I like my mix to be a combo of theory and technical step by step instruction. The first seventy pages are theory overkill, but you really get lost by page 99 where he lists four class files you are supposed to have written but he's only given you the CabinBean.class and two others that arent on the list. Very confusing. I am now looking at Applied Enterprise JavaBeans Technology by Kevin Boone.
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Summary: Could have been better
Review: The workbook is great and what can I say, JBoss is great. I've never implemented Entity Beans in any project so after performing the exercises on how to integrate them into JBoss, I see what a piece of crap this is, but this is not the authors fault. O/R has them by you know what and specifications need to change to include them. Wait, its coming in EJB 3.0. Can't Wait to see it.
I dont understand one thing, and thats my ding for this book, and that it took the author 4 chapters to explain Entity Beans, to be re-implemented (Make your life and our lives easier - look at Hibernate) out in next release of EJB 3.0 specifications. And do a rush job on explaining J2EE Services ( Sessions as Endpoints ). To me, it should have been reversed.
Also, as indicated by the author, what a piece of crap the Timer Service is. Its like as if we needed another reason to crash the server.
Chapt. 16 Transactions was very interesting and I was intrigued by it. I would have dinged this book to 3 star rating, but his coverage on JMS ( Hurray to the Unified API ) and Transactions earned him the 4 star rating.
Also, it would have been nice to see versions of this book along with workbooks for other servers such as Weblogic or Websphere. That way, one can choose which version to pick up. As you know, just because you know how to do it in one server, means nothing to a stupid hiring firm, if you have not used the same in their server.
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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: I spent a few weeks trying to find something to use to improve my EJB knowledge. The books I found usually spent too much time on using the J2EE reference implementation and spent too little time on EJBs, or else were for the wrong EJB specification. This book was exactly what I was looking for.
O'Reilly again hits the nail right on the head!
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Summary: Check out the JBoss workbook
Review: [A REVIEW OF THE FOURTH EDITION]
Each edition of this book seems to grow visibly thicker. Perhaps indicative of the still increasing functionality being put into EJBs. The book covers what is currently the latest version, EJB 2.1. Plus also EJB 2.0.
Comprehensive. Detailed explanations of Container Managed Persistence and Bean Managed Persistence. Plus how to use Message-Driven Beans and JMS to help put together a loosely coupled distributed system. MDBs and JMS did not exist in the original EJBs. But a clear sense of the need for such emerged soon after, and MDB and JMS were the results.
With the flurry of interest on Web Services, we see how EJB 2.1 is compatible with these proposed standards. In future editions, this section may well be heavily expanded. Right now, Web Services are still nascent and more experience is needed with fleshing out optimal standards.
Kudos to the authors for including a lengthy section showing how to use JBoss. It is a free application server that supports most EJB 2.1 features. Its zero cost and advanced functionality will appeal to many programmers on a tight budget. This section walks you through combining JBoss with EJBs.
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Summary: Horribly Writen, useless information
Review: This book was my first exposure to EJB/J2EE and I have found it to be very helpfull. I have read it from cover to cover and I am about to use the knowledge I obtained to rewrite our existing thick client to a JBoss client/server. I strongly recommend this book.
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