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Summary: Very Good Details
Review: This book is gives very good details interms of Architecture of EJB, instead of just giving how to create beans. If you looking for a book about knowing indepth details of Enterprise beans, like which bean is for what ? and why ?this is the correct book. If you are looking for a book just to know how to create beans using weblogic etc, then it is not right book.
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Summary: A must for a serious no dummy reader ...
Review: I was looking for a good, serious, indepth EJB book and found couple of them in stores. Read this one and Mastering EJBs (by Ramon) but found that this one is serious, indepth reading than the other one. The other one pumps more words and reaches to the same point where this book finishes by saying in simple and finishes in few lines. The downside of this book over others is that it doesnt cover other J2EE components (after all its just titled EJBs) w.r.t. EJBs. Overall it is a winner for coverage of the subject.
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Summary: The Bible for EJB Developers
Review: Recommend this book to anyone interested in doing EJB component development. Both the updated EJB 1.1 version and the older version of this book have been instrumental to our development team. It was a great reference guide that allowed us to quickly learn and implement EJB components for our e-business website.
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Summary: Very practical book
Review: This book is squarely aimed at developers, with lots of useful examples. The author's experience in implementing large-scale EJB applications shows through clearly. The service oriented approach to design and development used in this book is the most practical approach to EJB development. Recommended.
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Summary: An excellent introduction to EJB
Review: As a person with no previous experience in EJB I found this book to be very well written and accessible. The book is organized in a systemic way, and it describes all the basic EJB features.The book is evenly paced, with very smooth transitions from one chapter to the next. The section on transactions is especially well-written. The book is essential to anyone interested in Enterprise JavaBeans.
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Summary: The best EJB book
Review: I've read two EJB books and this is, by far, the best one. I started with Ed Romans book, which I never finished because I quickly realized the author knows very little about distributed computing. I found refuge in the Monson-Haefel book, which I found to be concise, detailed, and extremely well written. Richard Monson-Haefel is man who obviously knows his business. The book starts out with a basic chapter on distributed computing. I didn't need it, but it was probably the best introduction to the subject I've ever read. Novices will love it. The rest of the book gives you a unique insight to the inner workings of EJB servers while keeping the language straightforward so that everyone can understand it. Everything is covered including entity, session, transactions, and J2EE. I give this book my highest recommendation.
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Summary: Very well written
Review: I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn about EJB. I read the other book that covered EJB before I had a chance to read this one and it left me disappointed. This book met all of my expectations. Monson-Haefel clearly knows his subject, and he is able to communicate this in a very organized straightforward manner. This is not a book that just regurgitates the specification. This book clearly teaches the reader how to program an application that uses EJB. Monson-Haefel also covers the architecture and design of an EJB, which many authors of technical books often skip over. I wish all technical books were written this well.
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Summary: Good book!
Review: Anyone thinking about using EJB will benefit from this book. Its well written, and does a good job of providing examples that can be used in everyday development work. It covers both EJB 1.1 and 1.0 and explains the difference between them. I can't say enough good things about it!
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Summary: Good to the last drop!
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Every chapter was excellent. The book starts with a chapter that explains distributed objects, components, server-side components, and transaction monitors in a way that makes total sense and is fun to read. The next couple of chapters give you an in-depth look at the EJB architecture removing all the mystery from the technology -- these chapters are pure gold. Chapters 3 through 7 show how to develop stateless, stateful, CMP and BMP entity beans. These chapters explain how to write beans and how to use them. The examples are very excellent. Chapter 8 is a very long but necessary chapter on transactions and how they work in EJB. I'm glad they saved this for after Chapters 3 -7 because it's complicated. Chapter 9 is a priceless Design Strategies chapter that gives you more punch in the first 10 pages then most books give in 100. Even experienced EJB developers will learn new tricks from this chapter. Chapter 10 is on XML deployment descriptors. This is an excellent reference and the way its organized makes it much simpler to understand. Chapter 11 covers J2EE. It's short but excellent. The author tells you exactly how EJB fits into J2EE, which is all I wanted to know. Appendix A - D are an invaluable reference for developers. They include a complete class reference, UML state diagrams and charts, vendor listing and finally a summary of the changes from EJB 1.0 to EJB 1.1. This is the best EJB book available and will continue to be the best for a long time. Its too solid and too well organized not to be.
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Summary: Great Book - Wordy at times
Review: I owned Ed Roman's book and decided to try this book out to find out all the new things with EJB 1.1. It's an awesome book overall, very nice approach in covering differences between 1.0 and 1.1. But also more impressively, it gave a great introduction to Distributed Computing so all the behind scenes stuff is not completely black box to the reader. The only thing I think could improve in the next version would be to keep things more concise, some paragaphs are extremely wordy, which I found to be extremley rare of an O'Reilly book. But I guess it's hard to satisfy all levels of readership, so this book still deserves a 5 star rating. Get it if you are serious about EJB.
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