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Summary: ridiculous book
Review: I don't think I can find words to describe how bad this book is and how much I have been disappointed by it. I had been waiting for quite some time to get it as I was hoping to find an advanced treatment on automating the "practical" matters of ejb.. generating code but especially deploying on various application servers ( a topic that sadly most ejb books skip since it is "vendor dependent") and how to do all this the right way using JBuilder. This booklet turned out to be a weak introduction to ejb, that just teaches you the very, VERY basics and also in a hurried and superficial manner. And trust me I am not a snobbish theorist or a "I read-only-manuals-and-oreilly-books" kind of guy, and I know a good book when I see one.
The JBulder part is at best laughable: first of all, the code for the book was developed with JBuilder FIVE and the title says proudly 7...The difference doesn't show up much anywasy since the code examples are not even worth calling toy examples.. they are just snippets that could have bene put together by someone who started learning java last week. And as for deploying the examples, good luck man, you are on your own. Ah, did I mention that the first FIVE chaps are not even on ejbbut just the plain vanilla javabeans? Did I mention that the whole layount of the book and the style of writing reminded me of a high school student who uses the biggest possible Word fonts to fill up the required number of pages of an assignment when he is totally without anything significant to say?
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Summary: This was really easy to follow.
Review: I have been only been using Java for about a year. I tried a few other EJB books and frankly could not follow them. This book was very easy to follow. I have now created standard java beans, a few session beans, and a message bean.
My only complaint, and this is a small one, is that I would have liked to have seen a few appendices explaining the various major application servers.
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Summary: Pretty Decent Start
Review: I have found this book to be very dissapointing. For someone who purchased this book to learn about EJB programming using the JBuilder 7 platform I was not very impressed to find that the majority of my time has so far been spent in trying to get the examples to run.
This is possibly because the examples were created using JBuilder 5. Even the downloaded source code that I have tried fails to compile.
This product was advertised as specific to JBuilder7 but appears to be a hash-over of some previous work. The author could obviously not be bothered to fully check out any changes between product versions. While the technical content of the first five chapters is a little daunting it gives an understandable view of where one is going, however working examples of the subject are what really gets one into the meat of a subject. The ability to see by example how the professionals approach a task is worth chapters of text. It is extreemly frustrating to find that the examples do not work, for whatever reason, and when studying the graphic dumps to find out why one can not find certain menu items, essential to the example, one discovers that the author has just rehashed the text from a JBuilder 5 project without even checking for any product changes. This does not elicit any confidence in the authors ability in this field.
Overall - rather disappointing.
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Summary: Pretty Decent Start
Review: I have programmed in Java for a while, and actually already knew how to do Java Beans. A friend asked me to look this over. It has strengths and weaknesses. One strength is that its really easy to read and clear. You get a really good view of the concepts on EJB. However it is weak in the coding examples. They are very simplistic. It also does not cover the server side software needed to make EJB work. My advice is that if you are new to EJB And want to get up to speed quickly read this...but then move on to a more complex book for details.
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Summary: Pretty Good book
Review: I liked this book. It started out with four chapters of standard Java Beans. Some EJB writters forget that there are readers out there who simply don't know anything about Java Beans at all. If you do know basic Java Beans then you can skip that section.
The book was well written with clear code examples. I would have preferred more complex examples, but the book is geared towards teaching someone EJB, not taking an EJB programmer to the next level, so the examples where probably appropriate.
I also wish it had been longer. I thought the book was a bit too short, and probably could have gone into more depth with an additional 100 pages or so.
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Summary: OK Book
Review: I thought this book was OK...not great, but OK. I liked the first four chapters giving the basics of standard Java Beans. I personally already have experience with Java Beans, but thought that was a good touch for readers who might not.
The book was easy to read, good writting style. It could have been longer, and the examples where definately written with a beginner in mind, personally I would have like to have seen more complex examples.
I agree with most of the other reviews that I have seen on this book: its pretty decent, but not the best book. If you want a quick intro to get you started this is it. You will need to get another book to go in more depth. Wrox Professional EJB would be a good solid choice. I do want to make a comment on the single reviewer who described the book as pure toilet paper...I think that is utter nonsense, and the other reviews I read seem to agree with me. IN fact from the tone of that one review, it looked like the reviewer had some personal grudge against the author...I would recommend you ingore that review.
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Summary: Poor examples
Review: Sadly I struggled to get the examples running. You would think it would be a case of cut and paste and compilations, but there are spelling mistakes even in the first code examples.
Obviously the code was not tested before it was published in the book.
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Summary: EJB Development made easy
Review: This book is really very good for new professionals to start building Enterprise Java Beans using Borland JBuilder. EJB is a technology that needs to be explained only to newcomers; once you know how to build EJBs, you don't need a book. This book discusses exactly what it is supposed to. In simple terms, this book may be named "EJB Development made easy". A book should not be viewed upon the number of pages it contains; rather it should be viewed whether it serves the purpose or not. This book serves the purpose. Nice Job Chuck !!!
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Summary: EJB Development made easy
Review: This book is with lots of mistakes and not useful on either
ejb concepts or using the JBuilder for building your components.
Its a waste of money.I bought this book from Borders store and I am going to return it.
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