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Summary: Good in terms of concept
Review: Although there were a number of infavourable comments regarding the source code that accompanies the book, I feel that the concepts explained in the book are very practical and easy to be grasped.Therefore, in my humble opinion, this edition of the book appeals more to software architects than source-code seekers.
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Summary: A disappointment
Review: I had high hopes for this book when I found it. Like most others, I gave up after 3 chapters. I found too many defiencies in the code in the book so I downloaded the source from the publisher. That helped, then I found the classpath explained in the book had left out several items. Finally figured out the classpath issues, and got the code to compile fully, but was unable to deploy due to other defiencies so I gave up. Some good points... It does explain EJBs well, just not how to deploy them properly. The exploration of UCs should benefit anyone. And it does show how to use deploytool, for whatever that is worth
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Summary: Good Starting Point, good companion for reference manuals
Review: I have been programming in Java for about 4 years, but this is the first year that I have had to do any EJB stuff. I picked up this book because it is short (~370 pages) and has a lot of code snippets. I found it a very good read. It focuses more on the way in which somebody can use EJB, rather than the low-level details of exactly how EJB is implemented.
I recommend this book, but I will warn you that you will probably want to pick up a more detailed reference manual to go along with this tutorial-style book.
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Summary: Code has plenty of errors.
Review: I was impressed by author's style in the begining chapters but I gave up after chapter 3 as I could not get the code to work. I could compile the BookBean EJB but I get plenty of errors(for the client code) even after following the instructions verbatim. What's the fun reading the book when you can't run the code? I hope author puts an errata on his website.
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