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Summary: Great book , but a little outdated
Review: This is a great book about EJB. The author doesn't simply teach you how to program. He explains the rationals and all related technologies in a very clear way. You can really understand what J2EE and EJB are about. Unfortunately, this edition covers EJB 1.0 and is becoming outdated. Although the book has an appendix about EJB 1.1, you have to edit the books examples if you want to run them in contemporary EJB container products. Get the next edition! It will be published anytime soon and promises!
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Summary: Good, but could have been better....
Review: Ed Roman has done a pretty good job of assembling the information regarding the complexities of EJB into one volume. However I think the title of this book is a bit misleading. While, yes, this book *does* discuss EJB 1.1 and the Java 2 Enterprise Edition, it is presented more as an *afterthought*. The bulk of the book (about 60%) is written for EJB 1.0 (which has glaring differences from the J2EE implementation of EJB 1.1). Toward the back of this tome is where you'll find a section that could have basically been titled; "Now, THIS is how you do EJB in the J2EE".Basically the information is good, but the organization leaves something to be desired. In this instance the Monson-Haefel book on EJB from O'Reilly is much better (the EJB 1.0 and 1.1 differences are compared and contrasted throughout the reference). If you buy *one* EJB book, get the Monson-Haefel book, but if you buy two, get this one also. The combination of them is actually quite good!
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Summary: This is the best EJB book.
Review: I have Tom Valeski's and the Monson-Haefel books as well as this one. I think this book is more comprehensive and better written. If you're looking for your first EJB book, get this one. It will probably be the only one you need for development work.
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Summary: Excellent book for understanding the BIG picture
Review: THe initial chapters of the book are excallet, they totally explain the overall picture. This is necessary for developing EJB. The only main disadvantage of this book is that the actual EJB examples have been written using EJB 1.0 specification. This is a major problem since there are some differences between EJB 1.1 and EJB 1.0. The RMI-IIOP chapter is also an excallent chapter,since it starts by explanning the working of CORBA, and how RMI fits into it. Generally other books just come to the point and explain RMI-IIOP, but with this book I totally understood how and why RMI-IIOP fits into the big picture.
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Summary: Must read to understand Distributed Computing
Review: Ed Roman has done a great job authoring this wonderful book. I have read quite a number of books on EJB but none comes even close to this one. I have been working on Microsoft DNA architecture and this book helped me to get a great insight into the J2EE architecture. A must read for anyone who is seriously thinking on developing EJBs. I'm eagerly looking forward for the next release of this book.
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Summary: Great, readable style. Highly recommend.
Review: I highly recommend this book. The tech details and the way they are given to the reader is an art form in itself. The author has a particular style that really gets the details across. While some what redundant, nothing is left out of low level details. Still, if you want to just get a high level view, the writer style makes this easy also. Highly readable as in the style of writers such as Jeffrey Richter of Win/NT 32 fame.
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Summary: Outdated
Review: This book really needs to be updated, the 1.0 stuff is way out of date. I also found the example subjects to be sort of weird in some cases, he uses this "component game" at one point. I think it would be more illustrative if he stuck to real world business situations that practicioners encounter. One thing I think is really cool is that this is online. It also definitely contains a good deal of valuable info but with the EJB 2.0 spec final now, he really needs to get a new edition out.
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Summary: A great book ---by a Don Box of the Java world.
Review: I come from the Microsoft world with a heavy background of COM ,MTS and COM+. After reading Ed Roman's book I found myself come upto speed with EJB and in only a couple of days I was writing and deploying my first entity beans. The author does a marvellous job of presenting the material in the book. The text is plain, straightforward and unambiguous, concise yet exhaustive and is written keeping both the practical and thoretical aspects of transactional programming in mind. So if you are looking for a book which presents both the nitty gritty details of this potentially complicated topic along with providing a hands down programming approach, then look no further. It's really hard to write books like these.
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Summary: Comes up short
Review: This book ships a BEA Weblogic that is EXPIRED before you even open the cover. Doesn't go over any of the J2EE tools like DeployTool or J2ee.bat that comes with J2sdkEE. The author relies on you using BEA Weblogic and shows you how to deploy beans with BEA. But nothing on how to deploy using other means. Maybe the author is getting a kickback from BEA. Other than that, the book does have good detail on the difference in enterprise beans
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Summary: Good book on EJB
Review: This book is one of the best investments I've made in terms of time and money this year. It does the job of explaining the concepts of Enterprise Java beans in a clear and logical fashion. The language is simple and tone is straightforward. In fact one could read the whole book easily within a couple of days. There is a good mixture of concepts and examples. If you are working or about to or work in a project that involves EJB this is "the" book to buy.
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