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Summary: Must for Serious EJB Developer
Review: The in depth coverage of EJB from a developers perspective is excellent. Also the insight into topics like RMI, JNDI, XML included as appendices and the new release of JDK the Java2 EE is indepth and is very helpful in understanding the power of EJB and its working. The book uses UML notation so I benefited because of this as I saw UML put to use. The examples in this book unlike other books does not develop a single application all throughout the book on the other hand implements as per the chapter specifics. I recommend this book for beginners and for serious EJB developers as well.
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Summary: Excellent book for Java developers
Review: I found Mastering Enterprise Java Beans to be refreshingly concise and to-the-point. The book gives useful real world code examples and every all pages of theory are always followed by a discussion of the little knitty-gritty details we as developers are always left craving for. The book has great hands-on coverage of Enterprise Java beans and servlets, and also doubles as a useful reference for developing with Weblogic. This book is the only EJB book I needed to begin programming a large EJB application.
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Summary: Great book on EJB
Review: This book gave me a very good understanding about EJB which the online tutorials and specs did not. The author explains the concepts of EJB in a very simple language and develops on them as the chapters progresses. A must have for all EJB developers.
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Summary: Excellent coverage of EJB
Review: This Books covers the basic understanding of JNDI, RMI and XML with Java. It covers very well the concepts about Session Beans and Entity Beens. The reader will get complete understanding of EJB once they turn the last page. If you are using BES Web Logic than this is BEST BUY.
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Summary: Absoutely great book on EJB and J2EE.
Review: This is book provides jumpstart in EJB and J2EE to anybody with a reasonable background in Java. The author starts absolutely from scratch about these technologies and from then on explains in detail and with a lot of code and examples which really drives home all the points you need to learn these relatively new technologies.And the BEST part is encapsuled information on XML,JNDI,Servlets etc.I would suggest anybody serious in developing EJB applications,not to look elsewhere and just start with this book.You will surely become an excellent EJB programmer by the time you finish this book.
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Summary: This is the best book
Review: This is the best book I ever read. It is very-well organized. Each chapter tells exactly what the title implies. There are also many very good examples in there, they are strongly helping readers to understand what the concepts the chapter delivers. Besides these, this book also cover lots of related topics, such as Corba, Xml, RMI, etc. Though they are in appendix, they are illustrated very clearly. There is only one small thing I don't think it's good. This book use WebLogic as the EJB container. It would be better to use Sun's EJB container, because it is free and everyone can get it.
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Summary: EJBs - A Thorough & Well-Organized Overview
Review: Easy to understand at first reading. Thorough, logical, and plainly written.
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Summary: explanation of why this book is a must-have EJB book
Review: Why is this book a "must-have" EJB book?Every EJB book on the market today does a fair job explaining the basics of EJB to you. Unfortunately, the basics of EJB will not get you very far. To build a complete server-side solution, you need to know how to effectively leverage the J2EE suite in unison. This is the only book that goes beyond the basics and dives into the complex aspects of both EJB and the J2EE. Everything is taught from the ground-up, and the only assumption I make is that you understand the basic Java language. So what will you learn from this book? I'll teach you how to develop extensively with both EJB 1.0, as well as the new EJB 1.1 specification. I'll spend a chapter teaching you XML from the ground-up, as the EJB 1.1 specification relies on XML. I'll show you how to integrate CORBA and EJB systems with complete coverage of the RMI-IIOP package. I'll teach you advanced Java RMI from scratch, including how to leverage distributed garbage collection, and how to build message queuing software with RMI. We'll cover advanced JNDI, including how to combine JNDI with RMI, JNDI with JDBC, and how to write a JNDI browser that interacts with any naming service. You'll learn about transactions, including the real meaning behind isolation levels and transaction attributes. You'll see how to perform security in EJB, both declaratively and programmatically. You'll design a real E-Commerce system using J2EE, with nine beans and nine servlets. You'll have a handy EJB quick-reference guide that describes typical implementations of every EJB API method, as well as fully commented lifecycle diagrams describing what's really going on in an EJB system. Finally, I'll lay down a set of criteria to help you make an EJB server purchase decision. Unfortunately, there are no alternative sources for this breadth of information today. I hope that changes over time. Make no mistake about it -- this book is for developers. As such, there are no 'cute pictures' in this book -- all of the diagrams are drawn using the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The examples are also quite extensive. I want to give you as much exposure to the kinds of domain models that you can build with EJB as possible, and so a brand-new enterprise bean complements almost every new concept in this book. In total, we will develop thirteen enterprise beans together. While this has increased the size of the book dramatically, I hope you see this as a value-add over other books that provide one or two examples that span the entire book. And finally, I wish the grass was greener and I could write a book on how clean and portable EJB is, but the truth is that this technology is not perfect, and you should know exactly what the imperfections are. I will expose you to the gruesome and incompatible parts of EJB, and also explain how the industry is solving these problems. So while you're deciding which EJB book to buy, take a look at your bookshelf, and try to count how many books you have that you are completely disgusted with. I'm sure you know what I mean -- the books are written in 3 months, barely cover the subject matter, and ship with code that doesn't work, wasting your money. the bar. This book represents everything I wish I had when I first started working with EJB. I've devoted over a year of my life to this project, and the result is the most comprehensive tutorial and reference guide for EJB and J2EE development available today. The goal of this book is to save you time and energy, and to aid you in designing well-crafted server-side systems. As such, the text of the book is interlaced with design strategies and tradeoff discussions. I hope this will prepare you for the challenges you will face. Good luck! Sincerely, Ed Roman
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Summary: Excellent Coverage of EJB and J2EE
Review: I would strongly recommend this book to anyone seeking a thorough understanding of Enterprise JavaBeans and it's integration within the framework of Java 2 Enterprise Edition. The author does an excellent job of explaining the features of EJB and J2EE as well as potential pitfalls. He is also frank about places where EJB does not measure up yet. (Some of these improvements are already part of the EJB 1.1 specs, covered in the section on EJB 1.1) The book has a large number of examples to illustrate the various concepts discussed. The section on evaluation criteria for EJB vendor is particularly useful for anyone looking to make a purchase decision for Application Servers
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Summary: It book helped a dummy like me
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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